Died in custody
Name not reported
A man identified only as E. R. in a garbled 1885 newspaper account was a book agent who was jailed at Reading, Pennsylvania, after becoming responsible for a small board bill. The paper said shame and disgrace drove him into a severe mental breakdown, and he was moved to the County Insane Hospital, where he died. The article gives no name beyond these initials, and it gives no date or cause of death.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined