Died in prison
James Rodan
James Rodan was a native of Ireland who died at the Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia in 1892, according to newspaper reports from that August. The papers say he set fire to his bedding and cut his own throat with a knife, and that he died in the prison hospital a few hours later. The reports call his death a suicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Fisherman & Farmer news report says James Rodan set fire to his bedding, sat down in the flames and cut his throat with a knife, and calls it a suicide.
Reported by: Fisherman & Farmer news report (reporters); Newspaper report of his death in the Eastern Penitentiary prison hospital (reporters).