Emanuel Boland
Emanuel Boland, a man from Aiken County, was held at the State Hospital for the Insane in Columbia, South Carolina. According to the report, nurses were watching patients in the yard on Monday afternoon, August 23, 1909, when he climbed lattice work on a porch toward the third story and fell about thirty feet. He died within moments of the fall, and The News and Courier, reporting from a Columbia dispatch, described it as a suicide. The paper's account said the death was unavoidable and that no blame was placed on anyone.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The News and Courier, citing a Columbia dispatch, reported that he fell about thirty feet from lattice work while climbing toward the third story and that the death was called unavoidable with no blame placed on anyone.
Reported by: The News and Courier (via a Columbia dispatch) (reporters).