The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 3, 1897
Yesterday afternoon shortly after one o'clock, Richard Strode, a prominent prosperous farmer of East Bradford, died after lingering in agony for several hours, as the result of a ghastly wound which he inflicted in his head from a revolver which he used with suicidal intent while standing in the sheep shed that forms an annex to his stables.
When the news of the shooting reached West Chester a universal sensation was created as Mrs. Strode was a framer, well advanced in years and a man whose integrity and worth had been recognized.
Richard Strode had been suffering for about two months past with insomnia, and the difficulty which he experienced in securing sleep is said to have been a principal cause for the unbalancing of his brain and the consequent fatal act that terminated his life.
Since the mental weakness manifested itself in Mr. Strode, his relatives and friends have been very particular in making his life as pleasant as possible, and they have endeavored to dissuade him from exhausting his resources, but notwithstanding all their efforts Mr. Strode has insisted upon doing all the work that he usually accomplished while in possession of his strongest faculties.
This strain told upon him, and it was only the other morning that he arose in the middle of the night at the Farmers' Hotel, on Market street, in this borough, and did not appear until later in the day. His companions at the market house who had expected his appearance and who had been aware of his practice of sleeping at the Farmer's Hotel on the night preceding market morning were somewhat alarmed for a time, but their fears were dispelled when Mr. Strode arrived and informed them that owing to his inability to sleep he had driven out home during the night.
Last evening about six o'clock Coroner Troutman visited the scene of the suicide in company with the following jurymen, who investigated the cause of death: James S. Carey, John Thorp, Torbert Ingram, J. E. Cope, Mr. James and Cheyney Chamberlain.
After listening to the testimony of relatives and the hired men the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide as the result of insomnia and melancholia. Among the important witnesses were Dr. Massey, of this borough, who testified as to the physical condition of the deceased.
Richard Strode had a county reputation as the manufacturer of the Strode sausage and scrapple, and it was probably in the sale of these winter enjoyables that he was best known. His brothers and sisters are George M. Strode, Oliver J. Strode, Mrs. Carrie F. Hoopes, Avondale; Mrs. D. Beaumont Oat, and Mrs. Caleb M. Walter.
The deceased's family comprised Mrs. Strode, Elwyn Strode, Richard Strode, Jr., student at Pierce's Business College and George Strode, who attends State Normal.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 4, 1897
Richard Strode of East Bradford, near West Chester, ended his life on Tuesday morning. He arose at an early hour and about 7 o'clock went to the barn where with a revolver he fired a shot into his head which resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. Mental disturbance is given as the cause of the act, the victim having been troubled with insomnia for some time. Mr. Strode was about 60 years of age and was a well-known farmer and marketman in West Chester.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 5, 1897
STRODE- In East Bradford, on November 2, 1897, Richard Strode, in the __ year of his age.
Friends and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence on Friday on Friday November 5th, 1897, leave the house at 11 o'clock. Interment at Friends Burial Ground.
November 3, 1897
Yesterday afternoon shortly after one o'clock, Richard Strode, a prominent prosperous farmer of East Bradford, died after lingering in agony for several hours, as the result of a ghastly wound which he inflicted in his head from a revolver which he used with suicidal intent while standing in the sheep shed that forms an annex to his stables.
When the news of the shooting reached West Chester a universal sensation was created as Mrs. Strode was a framer, well advanced in years and a man whose integrity and worth had been recognized.
Richard Strode had been suffering for about two months past with insomnia, and the difficulty which he experienced in securing sleep is said to have been a principal cause for the unbalancing of his brain and the consequent fatal act that terminated his life.
Since the mental weakness manifested itself in Mr. Strode, his relatives and friends have been very particular in making his life as pleasant as possible, and they have endeavored to dissuade him from exhausting his resources, but notwithstanding all their efforts Mr. Strode has insisted upon doing all the work that he usually accomplished while in possession of his strongest faculties.
This strain told upon him, and it was only the other morning that he arose in the middle of the night at the Farmers' Hotel, on Market street, in this borough, and did not appear until later in the day. His companions at the market house who had expected his appearance and who had been aware of his practice of sleeping at the Farmer's Hotel on the night preceding market morning were somewhat alarmed for a time, but their fears were dispelled when Mr. Strode arrived and informed them that owing to his inability to sleep he had driven out home during the night.
Last evening about six o'clock Coroner Troutman visited the scene of the suicide in company with the following jurymen, who investigated the cause of death: James S. Carey, John Thorp, Torbert Ingram, J. E. Cope, Mr. James and Cheyney Chamberlain.
After listening to the testimony of relatives and the hired men the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide as the result of insomnia and melancholia. Among the important witnesses were Dr. Massey, of this borough, who testified as to the physical condition of the deceased.
Richard Strode had a county reputation as the manufacturer of the Strode sausage and scrapple, and it was probably in the sale of these winter enjoyables that he was best known. His brothers and sisters are George M. Strode, Oliver J. Strode, Mrs. Carrie F. Hoopes, Avondale; Mrs. D. Beaumont Oat, and Mrs. Caleb M. Walter.
The deceased's family comprised Mrs. Strode, Elwyn Strode, Richard Strode, Jr., student at Pierce's Business College and George Strode, who attends State Normal.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 4, 1897
Richard Strode of East Bradford, near West Chester, ended his life on Tuesday morning. He arose at an early hour and about 7 o'clock went to the barn where with a revolver he fired a shot into his head which resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. Mental disturbance is given as the cause of the act, the victim having been troubled with insomnia for some time. Mr. Strode was about 60 years of age and was a well-known farmer and marketman in West Chester.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 5, 1897
STRODE- In East Bradford, on November 2, 1897, Richard Strode, in the __ year of his age.
Friends and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence on Friday on Friday November 5th, 1897, leave the house at 11 o'clock. Interment at Friends Burial Ground.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 3, 1897
Yesterday afternoon shortly after one o'clock, Richard Strode, a prominent prosperous farmer of East Bradford, died after lingering in agony for several hours, as the result of a ghastly wound which he inflicted in his head from a revolver which he used with suicidal intent while standing in the sheep shed that forms an annex to his stables.
When the news of the shooting reached West Chester a universal sensation was created as Mrs. Strode was a framer, well advanced in years and a man whose integrity and worth had been recognized.
Richard Strode had been suffering for about two months past with insomnia, and the difficulty which he experienced in securing sleep is said to have been a principal cause for the unbalancing of his brain and the consequent fatal act that terminated his life.
Since the mental weakness manifested itself in Mr. Strode, his relatives and friends have been very particular in making his life as pleasant as possible, and they have endeavored to dissuade him from exhausting his resources, but notwithstanding all their efforts Mr. Strode has insisted upon doing all the work that he usually accomplished while in possession of his strongest faculties.
This strain told upon him, and it was only the other morning that he arose in the middle of the night at the Farmers' Hotel, on Market street, in this borough, and did not appear until later in the day. His companions at the market house who had expected his appearance and who had been aware of his practice of sleeping at the Farmer's Hotel on the night preceding market morning were somewhat alarmed for a time, but their fears were dispelled when Mr. Strode arrived and informed them that owing to his inability to sleep he had driven out home during the night.
Last evening about six o'clock Coroner Troutman visited the scene of the suicide in company with the following jurymen, who investigated the cause of death: James S. Carey, John Thorp, Torbert Ingram, J. E. Cope, Mr. James and Cheyney Chamberlain.
After listening to the testimony of relatives and the hired men the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide as the result of insomnia and melancholia. Among the important witnesses were Dr. Massey, of this borough, who testified as to the physical condition of the deceased.
Richard Strode had a county reputation as the manufacturer of the Strode sausage and scrapple, and it was probably in the sale of these winter enjoyables that he was best known. His brothers and sisters are George M. Strode, Oliver J. Strode, Mrs. Carrie F. Hoopes, Avondale; Mrs. D. Beaumont Oat, and Mrs. Caleb M. Walter.
The deceased's family comprised Mrs. Strode, Elwyn Strode, Richard Strode, Jr., student at Pierce's Business College and George Strode, who attends State Normal.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 4, 1897
Richard Strode of East Bradford, near West Chester, ended his life on Tuesday morning. He arose at an early hour and about 7 o'clock went to the barn where with a revolver he fired a shot into his head which resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. Mental disturbance is given as the cause of the act, the victim having been troubled with insomnia for some time. Mr. Strode was about 60 years of age and was a well-known farmer and marketman in West Chester.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 5, 1897
STRODE- In East Bradford, on November 2, 1897, Richard Strode, in the __ year of his age.
Friends and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence on Friday on Friday November 5th, 1897, leave the house at 11 o'clock. Interment at Friends Burial Ground.
November 3, 1897
Yesterday afternoon shortly after one o'clock, Richard Strode, a prominent prosperous farmer of East Bradford, died after lingering in agony for several hours, as the result of a ghastly wound which he inflicted in his head from a revolver which he used with suicidal intent while standing in the sheep shed that forms an annex to his stables.
When the news of the shooting reached West Chester a universal sensation was created as Mrs. Strode was a framer, well advanced in years and a man whose integrity and worth had been recognized.
Richard Strode had been suffering for about two months past with insomnia, and the difficulty which he experienced in securing sleep is said to have been a principal cause for the unbalancing of his brain and the consequent fatal act that terminated his life.
Since the mental weakness manifested itself in Mr. Strode, his relatives and friends have been very particular in making his life as pleasant as possible, and they have endeavored to dissuade him from exhausting his resources, but notwithstanding all their efforts Mr. Strode has insisted upon doing all the work that he usually accomplished while in possession of his strongest faculties.
This strain told upon him, and it was only the other morning that he arose in the middle of the night at the Farmers' Hotel, on Market street, in this borough, and did not appear until later in the day. His companions at the market house who had expected his appearance and who had been aware of his practice of sleeping at the Farmer's Hotel on the night preceding market morning were somewhat alarmed for a time, but their fears were dispelled when Mr. Strode arrived and informed them that owing to his inability to sleep he had driven out home during the night.
Last evening about six o'clock Coroner Troutman visited the scene of the suicide in company with the following jurymen, who investigated the cause of death: James S. Carey, John Thorp, Torbert Ingram, J. E. Cope, Mr. James and Cheyney Chamberlain.
After listening to the testimony of relatives and the hired men the jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide as the result of insomnia and melancholia. Among the important witnesses were Dr. Massey, of this borough, who testified as to the physical condition of the deceased.
Richard Strode had a county reputation as the manufacturer of the Strode sausage and scrapple, and it was probably in the sale of these winter enjoyables that he was best known. His brothers and sisters are George M. Strode, Oliver J. Strode, Mrs. Carrie F. Hoopes, Avondale; Mrs. D. Beaumont Oat, and Mrs. Caleb M. Walter.
The deceased's family comprised Mrs. Strode, Elwyn Strode, Richard Strode, Jr., student at Pierce's Business College and George Strode, who attends State Normal.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 4, 1897
Richard Strode of East Bradford, near West Chester, ended his life on Tuesday morning. He arose at an early hour and about 7 o'clock went to the barn where with a revolver he fired a shot into his head which resulted in his death a few hours afterwards. Mental disturbance is given as the cause of the act, the victim having been troubled with insomnia for some time. Mr. Strode was about 60 years of age and was a well-known farmer and marketman in West Chester.
The Morning Republican, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
November 5, 1897
STRODE- In East Bradford, on November 2, 1897, Richard Strode, in the __ year of his age.
Friends and relatives of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his late residence on Friday on Friday November 5th, 1897, leave the house at 11 o'clock. Interment at Friends Burial Ground.
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