Died in jail or a lockup
Sterling King
Sterling King died while held in a jail in Louisville, Kentucky, according to a Cincinnati report printed in the Pawtucket Gazette and Chronicle on May 18, 1866. The report calls his death a suicide by starvation and says he took only the smallest amount of food for forty days. In his last ten days, it says, he ate no more than an ounce of food a day. His body reached Cincinnati on the 10th, the report states.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. A reprinted Cincinnati report says he died by suicide through starvation, having taken only minimal food for forty days and refusing more than an ounce a day in his last ten.
Reported by: a reprinted Cincinnati report (reporters).