Hull Daily Mail Wednesday 14th September 1892
PREMEDITATED SUICIDE
George Digby Cole, valet to a gentleman named Herschell, who
resides at Observatory House, in the Windsor Road Slough, having had
disagreement with his master, went on Monday afternoon to a chemist, and,
pretending that required the drug for the purpose of poisoning a dog, obtained
some prussic acid. He then proceeded to the house of his former employer, and,
after using some improper language, took out the bottle and swallowed its
poisonous contents. The man walked the room for few moments screaming and shouting
in his death agonies till he fell exhausted to the floor.
A surgeon attended as speedily as possible, and administered
an emetic but he expired. It is said that Cole, who was considered rather an
eccentric person, was walking shortly before he committed suicide with an
undertaker, whom he asked to measure him for a coffin when he was dead.
MY NOTE
I am not sure which member of the Herschell family was living
at Observatory House at this time.
Pussic acid is Hydrogen Cyanide
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