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Green Bay Advocate
Thursday, 25 April 1878

         GEORGE WHITNEY, a blacksmith, aged 35 years, un-
       married, who worked at the Halfway House in Casco,
       was found dead in bed with his throat cut on Satur-
       day morning last. He had been drinking heavily for
       more than a week, and was probably out of his mind
       when he committed the act. On Friday, at noon he
       told Mr. CAMPBELL BAY, driver of the Green Bay and
       Two Rivers mail stage, that he could get no sleep,
       and asked him to get something for him at the Ke-
       waunee drug store that was "good for a man who had
       been on a spree." On Saturday morning when Mr.
       GOZIN went to call him to breakfast he found him
       lying dead. He was undressed and partly covered
       with the bed clothing. He lay on his right side,
       with his right arm extended, and in his right hand
       was the razor with which he had killed himself. A
       long dirk knife lay by his side, and a smaller
       knife was under him. The door to his room was
       locked. The body was left lying as it was found
       until a jury could be empanneled, when an inquest
       was held and a verdict rendered in accordance with
       the facts. Deceased was an Englishman, and had no
       relatives in this country so far as we can learn.
         The Door Co. Advocate asserts that the suicide
       was suffering from delirium tremens when the deed
       was committed. He was formerly in the employ of
       Scofield & Co. at Sturgeon Bay and Tornado.
       
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