New Orleans Times of Sunday:
Captain H. G. McComas, of the steamer Lottawanna, who, on Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock, shot himself in the right temple, on board his boat, lying at the foot of Fourth street, and was removed to his residence, No. 109 Philip street, died yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. Coroner Creagh held the inquest, when the following evidence was obtained:
Russell Isham, mate of the Lottawanna, being duly sworn, said: "On Thursday, June 1, about one o'clock, as I was coming out of a Tchoupitoulas street car, and going into my boarding house, at the corner of Fourth street, I was overtaken by the steward of the boat, who said to hurry up to the boat, the old man has shot himself. I asked him what he meant. He said hurry, the captain has shot himself; go on board quick. I ran to the dining room of the boarding house, and calling the engineer, ran up to the boat, to the Captain's room, in the texas of the boat. He was lying on the floor in front of the bed. The carpenter of the boat was near his head, putting a pillow under his head. I said: "For God's sake Captain, what does this mean?" He answered, "I shot myself once; there is the pistol on the bed, and a letter; give it to my wife." Then he said: "Unfasten my drawers and take them off." I did so. He said: "God have mercy on me."
The letter referred to is written on a letter sheet of the clerk's office, and it read as follows:
"My Dear Wife--Failure has destroyed my life. May God have mercy on my wife and children, and my soul. Harry."
Drs. W. H. Berthelot and R. F. Maineyra, who made the post mortem examination of the body, gave the following certificate:
"New Orleans, June 3, 1871.--This is to certify that Harry G. McComas died this day, at No. 109 Philip street, of a gunshot wound in the region of the temporal bone of the head, about one and a half inch obliquely above the right eye; said wound ranged obliquely downward and lodged in the posterior of the throat; said wound wounded the lower portion of the right hemisphere of the brain, causing compression of the brain, paralysis and death. W. H. Berthelot, M.D., R. F. Maineyra, M.D."
The jury gave a verdict that the above wound as inflicted by a pistol in the hands of the deceased.
The Cincinnati Commercial says of the deceased: He was an old citizen of Cincinnati, and at one time quite wealthy here, being one of the founders of the old Cincinnati and Nashville Packet Line. He built and commanded a number of steamers, perhaps as many as any other commander on our waters. He was noted for his indomitable energy, notwithstanding his many reverses of fortune. Among the boats he commanded and were interested in were the Susquehanna, May Duke, Brooklyn, St. Cloud Trustee, Robt Rogers, Colonel Dicenson, Seventy-six, Scotland, M. S. Mepham, John Simpson, John Swasey, Sam Cloon, Statesman, Lewis Whiteman, M. Burns, Pennsylvania, E. W. Stephens, Mary Stephens, Imperial, Magenta, Leni Leoti, Julia A. Rudolph and Lotawanna. He was a native of Maryland and a self-made man, having been partially reared by the elder Booth (Junius B. Booth), the noted tragedian.
--The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), June 21, 1871, p. 3
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Capt. McComas was a native of Bel Air, Maryland, and was in the 53d year of his age. He was a boatman of many years' experience, and well known here as elsewhere. He formerly ran the Imperial between St. Louis and this city, which boat, it will be remembered, struck the railroad brodge pier at this point and sank. He was a warm-hearted, genial gentleman, and his untimely death will be regretted by a host of friends.
--Nashville Union and American, June 8, 1871, p. 4
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News comes to us that Captain Harry G. McComas attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head at New Orleans, Thursday. At latest accounts his recovery was doubtful. No cause for the rash attempt can be assigned by his friends, as his family relations were of the pleasantest, and his business in a flourishing condition. He was a steamboatman of 20 years experience, and well known here, and at one time one of our heaviest steamboat stock owners.
--The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 6, 1871, p. 7
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HARFORD. Capt. Harry G. McComas, a well-known steamboat owner of New Orleans, and a native of this county, committed suicide by shooting himself, recently Having et with a heavy loss by burning of one of his steamboat, it is conjectured that his mind became unsettled, and he ended his life in the anner above stated.
--The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md), June 17, 1871, p. 2
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NEW ORLEANS, June 4.---Captain H. G. McComas, who shot himself on Thursday, died last night. Cause, pecuniary embarrassment.
--Memphis Daily Appeal, June 5, 1871, p. 1
Captain H. G. McComas, of the steamer Lottawanna, who, on Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock, shot himself in the right temple, on board his boat, lying at the foot of Fourth street, and was removed to his residence, No. 109 Philip street, died yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. Coroner Creagh held the inquest, when the following evidence was obtained:
Russell Isham, mate of the Lottawanna, being duly sworn, said: "On Thursday, June 1, about one o'clock, as I was coming out of a Tchoupitoulas street car, and going into my boarding house, at the corner of Fourth street, I was overtaken by the steward of the boat, who said to hurry up to the boat, the old man has shot himself. I asked him what he meant. He said hurry, the captain has shot himself; go on board quick. I ran to the dining room of the boarding house, and calling the engineer, ran up to the boat, to the Captain's room, in the texas of the boat. He was lying on the floor in front of the bed. The carpenter of the boat was near his head, putting a pillow under his head. I said: "For God's sake Captain, what does this mean?" He answered, "I shot myself once; there is the pistol on the bed, and a letter; give it to my wife." Then he said: "Unfasten my drawers and take them off." I did so. He said: "God have mercy on me."
The letter referred to is written on a letter sheet of the clerk's office, and it read as follows:
"My Dear Wife--Failure has destroyed my life. May God have mercy on my wife and children, and my soul. Harry."
Drs. W. H. Berthelot and R. F. Maineyra, who made the post mortem examination of the body, gave the following certificate:
"New Orleans, June 3, 1871.--This is to certify that Harry G. McComas died this day, at No. 109 Philip street, of a gunshot wound in the region of the temporal bone of the head, about one and a half inch obliquely above the right eye; said wound ranged obliquely downward and lodged in the posterior of the throat; said wound wounded the lower portion of the right hemisphere of the brain, causing compression of the brain, paralysis and death. W. H. Berthelot, M.D., R. F. Maineyra, M.D."
The jury gave a verdict that the above wound as inflicted by a pistol in the hands of the deceased.
The Cincinnati Commercial says of the deceased: He was an old citizen of Cincinnati, and at one time quite wealthy here, being one of the founders of the old Cincinnati and Nashville Packet Line. He built and commanded a number of steamers, perhaps as many as any other commander on our waters. He was noted for his indomitable energy, notwithstanding his many reverses of fortune. Among the boats he commanded and were interested in were the Susquehanna, May Duke, Brooklyn, St. Cloud Trustee, Robt Rogers, Colonel Dicenson, Seventy-six, Scotland, M. S. Mepham, John Simpson, John Swasey, Sam Cloon, Statesman, Lewis Whiteman, M. Burns, Pennsylvania, E. W. Stephens, Mary Stephens, Imperial, Magenta, Leni Leoti, Julia A. Rudolph and Lotawanna. He was a native of Maryland and a self-made man, having been partially reared by the elder Booth (Junius B. Booth), the noted tragedian.
--The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), June 21, 1871, p. 3
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Capt. McComas was a native of Bel Air, Maryland, and was in the 53d year of his age. He was a boatman of many years' experience, and well known here as elsewhere. He formerly ran the Imperial between St. Louis and this city, which boat, it will be remembered, struck the railroad brodge pier at this point and sank. He was a warm-hearted, genial gentleman, and his untimely death will be regretted by a host of friends.
--Nashville Union and American, June 8, 1871, p. 4
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News comes to us that Captain Harry G. McComas attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head at New Orleans, Thursday. At latest accounts his recovery was doubtful. No cause for the rash attempt can be assigned by his friends, as his family relations were of the pleasantest, and his business in a flourishing condition. He was a steamboatman of 20 years experience, and well known here, and at one time one of our heaviest steamboat stock owners.
--The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 6, 1871, p. 7
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HARFORD. Capt. Harry G. McComas, a well-known steamboat owner of New Orleans, and a native of this county, committed suicide by shooting himself, recently Having et with a heavy loss by burning of one of his steamboat, it is conjectured that his mind became unsettled, and he ended his life in the anner above stated.
--The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md), June 17, 1871, p. 2
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NEW ORLEANS, June 4.---Captain H. G. McComas, who shot himself on Thursday, died last night. Cause, pecuniary embarrassment.
--Memphis Daily Appeal, June 5, 1871, p. 1
New Orleans Times of Sunday:
Captain H. G. McComas, of the steamer Lottawanna, who, on Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock, shot himself in the right temple, on board his boat, lying at the foot of Fourth street, and was removed to his residence, No. 109 Philip street, died yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. Coroner Creagh held the inquest, when the following evidence was obtained:
Russell Isham, mate of the Lottawanna, being duly sworn, said: "On Thursday, June 1, about one o'clock, as I was coming out of a Tchoupitoulas street car, and going into my boarding house, at the corner of Fourth street, I was overtaken by the steward of the boat, who said to hurry up to the boat, the old man has shot himself. I asked him what he meant. He said hurry, the captain has shot himself; go on board quick. I ran to the dining room of the boarding house, and calling the engineer, ran up to the boat, to the Captain's room, in the texas of the boat. He was lying on the floor in front of the bed. The carpenter of the boat was near his head, putting a pillow under his head. I said: "For God's sake Captain, what does this mean?" He answered, "I shot myself once; there is the pistol on the bed, and a letter; give it to my wife." Then he said: "Unfasten my drawers and take them off." I did so. He said: "God have mercy on me."
The letter referred to is written on a letter sheet of the clerk's office, and it read as follows:
"My Dear Wife--Failure has destroyed my life. May God have mercy on my wife and children, and my soul. Harry."
Drs. W. H. Berthelot and R. F. Maineyra, who made the post mortem examination of the body, gave the following certificate:
"New Orleans, June 3, 1871.--This is to certify that Harry G. McComas died this day, at No. 109 Philip street, of a gunshot wound in the region of the temporal bone of the head, about one and a half inch obliquely above the right eye; said wound ranged obliquely downward and lodged in the posterior of the throat; said wound wounded the lower portion of the right hemisphere of the brain, causing compression of the brain, paralysis and death. W. H. Berthelot, M.D., R. F. Maineyra, M.D."
The jury gave a verdict that the above wound as inflicted by a pistol in the hands of the deceased.
The Cincinnati Commercial says of the deceased: He was an old citizen of Cincinnati, and at one time quite wealthy here, being one of the founders of the old Cincinnati and Nashville Packet Line. He built and commanded a number of steamers, perhaps as many as any other commander on our waters. He was noted for his indomitable energy, notwithstanding his many reverses of fortune. Among the boats he commanded and were interested in were the Susquehanna, May Duke, Brooklyn, St. Cloud Trustee, Robt Rogers, Colonel Dicenson, Seventy-six, Scotland, M. S. Mepham, John Simpson, John Swasey, Sam Cloon, Statesman, Lewis Whiteman, M. Burns, Pennsylvania, E. W. Stephens, Mary Stephens, Imperial, Magenta, Leni Leoti, Julia A. Rudolph and Lotawanna. He was a native of Maryland and a self-made man, having been partially reared by the elder Booth (Junius B. Booth), the noted tragedian.
--The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), June 21, 1871, p. 3
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Capt. McComas was a native of Bel Air, Maryland, and was in the 53d year of his age. He was a boatman of many years' experience, and well known here as elsewhere. He formerly ran the Imperial between St. Louis and this city, which boat, it will be remembered, struck the railroad brodge pier at this point and sank. He was a warm-hearted, genial gentleman, and his untimely death will be regretted by a host of friends.
--Nashville Union and American, June 8, 1871, p. 4
~~~
News comes to us that Captain Harry G. McComas attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head at New Orleans, Thursday. At latest accounts his recovery was doubtful. No cause for the rash attempt can be assigned by his friends, as his family relations were of the pleasantest, and his business in a flourishing condition. He was a steamboatman of 20 years experience, and well known here, and at one time one of our heaviest steamboat stock owners.
--The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 6, 1871, p. 7
~~~
HARFORD. Capt. Harry G. McComas, a well-known steamboat owner of New Orleans, and a native of this county, committed suicide by shooting himself, recently Having et with a heavy loss by burning of one of his steamboat, it is conjectured that his mind became unsettled, and he ended his life in the anner above stated.
--The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md), June 17, 1871, p. 2
~~~
NEW ORLEANS, June 4.---Captain H. G. McComas, who shot himself on Thursday, died last night. Cause, pecuniary embarrassment.
--Memphis Daily Appeal, June 5, 1871, p. 1
Captain H. G. McComas, of the steamer Lottawanna, who, on Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock, shot himself in the right temple, on board his boat, lying at the foot of Fourth street, and was removed to his residence, No. 109 Philip street, died yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. Coroner Creagh held the inquest, when the following evidence was obtained:
Russell Isham, mate of the Lottawanna, being duly sworn, said: "On Thursday, June 1, about one o'clock, as I was coming out of a Tchoupitoulas street car, and going into my boarding house, at the corner of Fourth street, I was overtaken by the steward of the boat, who said to hurry up to the boat, the old man has shot himself. I asked him what he meant. He said hurry, the captain has shot himself; go on board quick. I ran to the dining room of the boarding house, and calling the engineer, ran up to the boat, to the Captain's room, in the texas of the boat. He was lying on the floor in front of the bed. The carpenter of the boat was near his head, putting a pillow under his head. I said: "For God's sake Captain, what does this mean?" He answered, "I shot myself once; there is the pistol on the bed, and a letter; give it to my wife." Then he said: "Unfasten my drawers and take them off." I did so. He said: "God have mercy on me."
The letter referred to is written on a letter sheet of the clerk's office, and it read as follows:
"My Dear Wife--Failure has destroyed my life. May God have mercy on my wife and children, and my soul. Harry."
Drs. W. H. Berthelot and R. F. Maineyra, who made the post mortem examination of the body, gave the following certificate:
"New Orleans, June 3, 1871.--This is to certify that Harry G. McComas died this day, at No. 109 Philip street, of a gunshot wound in the region of the temporal bone of the head, about one and a half inch obliquely above the right eye; said wound ranged obliquely downward and lodged in the posterior of the throat; said wound wounded the lower portion of the right hemisphere of the brain, causing compression of the brain, paralysis and death. W. H. Berthelot, M.D., R. F. Maineyra, M.D."
The jury gave a verdict that the above wound as inflicted by a pistol in the hands of the deceased.
The Cincinnati Commercial says of the deceased: He was an old citizen of Cincinnati, and at one time quite wealthy here, being one of the founders of the old Cincinnati and Nashville Packet Line. He built and commanded a number of steamers, perhaps as many as any other commander on our waters. He was noted for his indomitable energy, notwithstanding his many reverses of fortune. Among the boats he commanded and were interested in were the Susquehanna, May Duke, Brooklyn, St. Cloud Trustee, Robt Rogers, Colonel Dicenson, Seventy-six, Scotland, M. S. Mepham, John Simpson, John Swasey, Sam Cloon, Statesman, Lewis Whiteman, M. Burns, Pennsylvania, E. W. Stephens, Mary Stephens, Imperial, Magenta, Leni Leoti, Julia A. Rudolph and Lotawanna. He was a native of Maryland and a self-made man, having been partially reared by the elder Booth (Junius B. Booth), the noted tragedian.
--The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.), June 21, 1871, p. 3
~~~
Capt. McComas was a native of Bel Air, Maryland, and was in the 53d year of his age. He was a boatman of many years' experience, and well known here as elsewhere. He formerly ran the Imperial between St. Louis and this city, which boat, it will be remembered, struck the railroad brodge pier at this point and sank. He was a warm-hearted, genial gentleman, and his untimely death will be regretted by a host of friends.
--Nashville Union and American, June 8, 1871, p. 4
~~~
News comes to us that Captain Harry G. McComas attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head at New Orleans, Thursday. At latest accounts his recovery was doubtful. No cause for the rash attempt can be assigned by his friends, as his family relations were of the pleasantest, and his business in a flourishing condition. He was a steamboatman of 20 years experience, and well known here, and at one time one of our heaviest steamboat stock owners.
--The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 6, 1871, p. 7
~~~
HARFORD. Capt. Harry G. McComas, a well-known steamboat owner of New Orleans, and a native of this county, committed suicide by shooting himself, recently Having et with a heavy loss by burning of one of his steamboat, it is conjectured that his mind became unsettled, and he ended his life in the anner above stated.
--The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md), June 17, 1871, p. 2
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NEW ORLEANS, June 4.---Captain H. G. McComas, who shot himself on Thursday, died last night. Cause, pecuniary embarrassment.
--Memphis Daily Appeal, June 5, 1871, p. 1
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