Nathan Britton
 

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Thursday, 21 April 1853, page 3

NEWPORT


Yesterday afternoon, about 1 pm, a colored man named Nathan Britton, a barber on Columbia, near Taylor street, in Newport, went up to a look glass and deliberately placing a loaded pistol to his head fired the contents into his head, scattering the brains over the floor. He expirect a few minties later.

He was in pecuniary trouble which is supposed to have been the cause of his committing the rash act. An inquest was held and a verdict returned in accordance with the above the above facts.

 

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