NEWPORT – SUICIDE – DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE THE CAUSE
George Kopp, age 32 years, & a German by birth, committed suicide on Monday afternoon at the residence of his mother on the Licking Turnpike, four miles south of Newport, by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a large knife. On Sunday he attempted self-destruction by opening the veins of his arms but failed. About 11 o'clock Monday, his mother went to his room & found him in bed. She asked him if he would not have something to eat, to which he replied "No. All I want to do is die". About an hour after this his mother again went to his room, when to her horror, she found that he had cut his throat, as above stated, & was weltering in a great pool of his own blood. Esquire P. A. C. Kemper Sr, of this city, was summoned in the afternoon to hold an inquest of the body. The testimony before the jury that the deceased was disappointed in a love affair a few months ago, since which he had been very despondent, sometimes drinking deeply to drown his sorrows. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by his own hand. Kopp was a constable to the John's Hill district.
Published 1-27-1869 Cincinnati Enquirer.
George Kopp, age 32 years, & a German by birth, committed suicide on Monday afternoon at the residence of his mother on the Licking Turnpike, four miles south of Newport, by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a large knife. On Sunday he attempted self-destruction by opening the veins of his arms but failed. About 11 o'clock Monday, his mother went to his room & found him in bed. She asked him if he would not have something to eat, to which he replied "No. All I want to do is die". About an hour after this his mother again went to his room, when to her horror, she found that he had cut his throat, as above stated, & was weltering in a great pool of his own blood. Esquire P. A. C. Kemper Sr, of this city, was summoned in the afternoon to hold an inquest of the body. The testimony before the jury that the deceased was disappointed in a love affair a few months ago, since which he had been very despondent, sometimes drinking deeply to drown his sorrows. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by his own hand. Kopp was a constable to the John's Hill district.
Published 1-27-1869 Cincinnati Enquirer.
NEWPORT – SUICIDE – DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE THE CAUSE
George Kopp, age 32 years, & a German by birth, committed suicide on Monday afternoon at the residence of his mother on the Licking Turnpike, four miles south of Newport, by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a large knife. On Sunday he attempted self-destruction by opening the veins of his arms but failed. About 11 o'clock Monday, his mother went to his room & found him in bed. She asked him if he would not have something to eat, to which he replied "No. All I want to do is die". About an hour after this his mother again went to his room, when to her horror, she found that he had cut his throat, as above stated, & was weltering in a great pool of his own blood. Esquire P. A. C. Kemper Sr, of this city, was summoned in the afternoon to hold an inquest of the body. The testimony before the jury that the deceased was disappointed in a love affair a few months ago, since which he had been very despondent, sometimes drinking deeply to drown his sorrows. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by his own hand. Kopp was a constable to the John's Hill district.
Published 1-27-1869 Cincinnati Enquirer.
George Kopp, age 32 years, & a German by birth, committed suicide on Monday afternoon at the residence of his mother on the Licking Turnpike, four miles south of Newport, by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a large knife. On Sunday he attempted self-destruction by opening the veins of his arms but failed. About 11 o'clock Monday, his mother went to his room & found him in bed. She asked him if he would not have something to eat, to which he replied "No. All I want to do is die". About an hour after this his mother again went to his room, when to her horror, she found that he had cut his throat, as above stated, & was weltering in a great pool of his own blood. Esquire P. A. C. Kemper Sr, of this city, was summoned in the afternoon to hold an inquest of the body. The testimony before the jury that the deceased was disappointed in a love affair a few months ago, since which he had been very despondent, sometimes drinking deeply to drown his sorrows. The verdict of the jury was that he came to his death by his own hand. Kopp was a constable to the John's Hill district.
Published 1-27-1869 Cincinnati Enquirer.
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