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NATHANIEL ALLEN
SUICIDE AT RIDGEWAY
WHISKEY VS REASON-WHISKEY WINS
[Welland Tribune, 21 September 1877]
On Sunday morning last the usually quiet village of Ridgeway was surprised at learning the particulars of a determined suicide which happened in a barn belonging to Mr. Chas. Girven, tinsmith of that place, the facts of which are these:
There have been for some years past, a resident of Ridgeway, by name Nathaniel Allen, employed at various times on the Grand Trunk Ry. in the capacity of brakeman and more latterly as peddler of tinware for Mr. Chas. Girven. One day of last week he succeeded in getting a little money and went to Stratford. The evidence given at the Coroner’s Inquest went to show that deceased was very dissipated during his stay at Stratford, from which place he returned to Ridgeway on Saturday morning. The supposition is that he at once repaired to his home, and finding his wife not there he proceeded to the barn and there and then committed the fatal act, leaving a note, written in a good bold hand which reads as follows-
“Ellen, you are to blame for this. I hang for you, you will live to repent it. May God have mercy upon me.”
Coroner Lewis of Fort Erie held an inquest on the remains on Monday, when the following verdict was rendered-“That the deceased, Nathaniel Allen, came to his death by committing suicide by hanging himself, while under the influence of liquor.” Mr. John Dalziel acted as foreman of the jury.
Allen will be remembered by the older residents of Welland village as having formerly lived in that place.
Died: 16 September 1877
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