Died in jail or a lockup
E. Llewellyn Barber
E. Llewellyn Barber died on October 26, 1882, in a cell at the police station in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, according to a brief news dispatch printed in the Daily Kennebec Journal. The dispatch says he died by hanging and gives the cause as suicide. It offers no information about who he was, his family, or the circumstances that led to his death in the cell.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A news dispatch reported that he died by hanging in a police station cell in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, with no further details given.
Reported by: news dispatch.