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- Courtesy of John Grundy.
Western Morning News, Wednesday 20 October 1897 MALBOROUGH - Suicide At Salcombe. - GEORGE JORDAN, a tradesman, committed suicide on Saturday. At the Inquest yesterday his wife said on returning home in the afternoon she found him hanging by the neck in the cellar. She had known him for two years, and during that time he had been in good health,. Deceased used a rabbit wire with a cloth round his neck inside it. She never noticed him to be worried at all. Richard Giles, who saw deceased about half an hour before he was discovered dead, said he appeared to be in his usual spirits. - John Patey, who was called into the cellar, found JORDAN hanging from the roof and cut him down. The body was warm then. Deceased's father stated that his son was very excitable and sensitive and impulsive. He believed the business was in a prosperous condition and he knew of no trouble affecting deceased. His grandmother died in the asylum and his mother's sister was insane. Dr Turning stated that it was possible with insanity in the family that a sudden impulse to suicide might have seized him. The Jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst Temporarily Insane."
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1874 - 1897 (23 years)
