• Obituary

    CASTIGAN, Patrick – (d. 1899)

    Patrick Castigan Commits Suicide by Drowning Himself Suffolk, Va., June 29 – Far away from dear ones and made morose and desperate because he couldn’t talk in life, Patrick CASTIGAN, an Irishman, 60 years old, preferred the quiet of death. If he had to keep still he’d rather die.  Pat. Yesterday threw himself into the dark waters of Bennett’s Creek, near Gatesville, N.C.  Last evening they found his body floating on the creek’s still bosom.  He was dead.   Pat. CASTIGAN had no blood kin nearer than Ireland so far as is known.  He moved to America about twenty years ago, since when he has lived nearly all the time in Gates…