Madden, William

MADDEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/13/2007 at 08:52:30

Jackson Sentinel, August 10, 1871:

A singular accident, resulting in death, occurred in this city last Thursday night. A young Irishman by the name of William Madden, a laborer on the Midland road, who boarded with a German named V. Nold, in the Fourth Ward, went out to the privy some time during the night, and having been drinking to excess, lost his balance and fell with his neck tightly wedged in between the edge of the door and front of the bench. In this position he was found in the morning, having been probably dead for several hours. A Coroner's jury was impanneled Friday morning, who returned a verdict in accordance with the above facts. He was unmarried, and about thirty years of age.

State of Iowa
Jackson County

INQUISITION

An inquisition holden at Maquoketa in Jackson County, Iowa, on the 4th day of August, 1871, before A. J. House. J.P., acting as Coroner of the said county, on the body of Wm. Madden, there lying, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed. The said jurors upon their oath do say that the person examined by us, and supposed to be Wm. Madden, came to his death on the night of the 3rd of August, in the privy situated on a certain lot on South Main Street, owned by Wm. Skinner, by strangulation between the door slab and side of said privy, occasioned by falling in said position while ia a state of intoxication. We do not think that the said deceased came to his death feloniously.
Witness our hands this 4th day of August, 1871.
A. J. McPeak, O. W. House, Marquis Little, Jurors.
Attest: A. J. House, J.P., Acting as Coroner.
A. B. Bowen, Surgeon.