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Old 07-10-20, 20:50
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No doubt there are some typos above, but also there are a couple of sentences that don't make sense, but you get the gist - I just typed what was there.

That's the longer of the two articles as it has more detail.
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Wow, Merry, thank you soooo omuch!
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It is bothersome to me that the wound was on the right side of his neck from a right handed person with an apparently large weapon. Wouldn't it be more likely the wound would at least begin on the left-hand-side?

A lot of hearsay from the witnesses too.....

I don't think it odd to be wearing two pairs of trousers in February. They don't mention whether he had any other tools etc with him. It would seem odd to have the scissors and nothing else. Made me wonder if anything had been stolen from the scene? I suppose having two days food with him is strange - though it does suggest things were not normal, they don't question that he perhaps was not contemplating suicide when he left home.

I realise now i didn't say the date and place of the article!:

Barnet Press 09 March 1901

I guess I have probably read/watched too many murder mysteries.
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It is bothersome to me that the wound was on the right side of his neck from a right handed person with an apparently large weapon. Wouldn't it be more likely the wound would at least begin on the left-hand-side?

A lot of hearsay from the witnesses too.....

I don't think it odd to be wearing two pairs of trousers in February. They don't mention whether he had any other tools etc with him. It would seem odd to have the scissors and nothing else. Made me wonder if anything had been stolen from the scene? I suppose having two days food with him is strange - though it does suggest things were not normal, they don't question that he perhaps was not contemplating suicide when he left home.

I realise now i didn't say the date and place of the article!:

Barnet Press 09 March 1901

I guess I have probably read/watched too many murder mysteries.
Thanks for the date and place of article. I think that my experience of family history (and history in general) is that I'm inclined, like you, to question everything!

I can only conjecture that between leaving home with his food for a normal working day and ending up miles away in a field with his throat cut, something extraordinary happened. I have come across a few suicides (including my gt x 3 grandfather John Mealing) who cut their throats with razors, but never with scissors. Possible if you are deranged, I suppose.
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Two days worth of food seems a lot for someone who was supposed to be returning home for their dinner (by which I presume they mean at midday, given the job was extremely local.)

They didn't find our whether he had been at work on the Tuesday morning at all. When he didn't come home Tuesday midday, you would think his wife would have walked up the road to see what he was up to. Perhaps she did and he wasn't there, but there was no way to dicover where he had gone. Persumably the food he had with him had come from his home? Or had he purchased it thinking he was 'running away'? Where were the rest of his tools? At home or where the job was supposed to be being done?

So many questions.

I wondered about the significance of mentioning the farthings were from his child's money box.
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As with most suicides, there are more questions than answers. Alternatively, if it was murder what was the motive?
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I agree that it's unlikely to be a murder or manslaughter, just that I didn't think they asked the questions they perhaps should have asked.
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