WAS NOT SUCIDE - George A. McCraken

MCCRAKEN, TRUDALL

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 3/23/2015 at 22:19:22

WAS NOT SUCIDE
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George A. McCraken Was Delirious and Died
From Typhoid Pneumonia
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The Sunday papers of Chicago stated that George McCraken had attempted suicide at a hotel in that city by cutting his throat with a pair of scissors. The relatives in this city have positive information that Mr. McCraken was sick with typhoid fever and was delirious at the time he inflicted the wounds on himself, which, however were not fatal, and the coroners jury returned a verdict that his death was the result of typhoid pneumonia.

Mr. McCraken was a native of Scotland, coming to Dubuque from Mansfield, Ohio, six years ago, and with C. A. Wehrly opened the Boston Dry Goods store. In 1892, he was married to Miss Lorette Trudall, daughter of Joseph Trudell, the carriage maker, of this city. In 1895 the firm of McCraken and Wehrly was dissolved.

Mr. McCracken was a member of the Siloam Commandery Knights Templar.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald Feb. 1896