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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Boston, 84-year-old Henry Trescott committed suicide yesterday afternoon on Fort-Hill by shooting himself in the mouth with an overloaded pistol ignited by a tobacco pipe, resulting in severe disfigurement and death. Coroner's verdict: suicide.
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SUICIDE.
Yesterday afternoon, a melancholy catastrophe happened in this town; a man by the name of Henry Trescott, in the 84th year of his age, put an end to his existence in a very shocking manner. It appeared by the evidence that was produced before the Coroner's Inquest, that he was a man of violent passions and extravagant ideas; having put a very large charge in an old pistol, he placed the muzzle to his mouth, and set fire to the powder with a lighted pipe of tobacco—the explosion blew off the front part of his face and his brains to a considerable distance; his skull was in small pieces, near ten feet from the place where he was found, which was on Fort-Hill. The Coroner's Inquest, brought in their verdict—That he was guilty of Suicide.
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Boston
Event Date
Yesterday Afternoon
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died by suicide; front part of face and brains blown off; skull in pieces ten feet away; coroner's inquest verdict: guilty of suicide
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Henry Trescott, aged 84, put an end to his existence by placing a large charge in an old pistol to his mouth and igniting it with a lighted pipe of tobacco on Fort-Hill. He was a man of violent passions and extravagant ideas.