Suicide Of A Prison Superintendent
Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Philadelphia, Nov. 24. - Howard. Perkins, superintendent of the Philadelphia county prison, committed suicide Tuesday in a room in the prison by shooting himself in the head. He had been t a suff erer from insomnia for a long time and is supposed to have been insane. He was 62 years old and had been superintendent of the prison for nineteen years.
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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News