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1910 News Articles

BREAKS HIS NECK IN FALLING FROM BED AT STATE HOSPITAL.
J. H. BISHOP, Former Probate Judge of New Madridnty,
Accidentally Loses Life Wednesday.

J. H. Bishop, formerly Probate Judge of New Madrid county,
fell from his bed and broke his neck at the State hospital
about 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning. When found by the
attendant at 8:20 he was lying on the floor and life had
evidently been extinct for several minutes.

An inquest was held over his body Wednesday afternoon by
Coroner Dr. J. H. English and the above facts were brought
out.

The unfortunate man was a private patient in the infirmary
and there was only one other person with him in the room
at the time of the accident. This was also an old man and
a patient and he could tell nothing about the accident.

Judge Bishop was Probate Judge of New Madrid county for
several years prior to his becoming demented last summer.

He was brought to the hospital here last December as a
private patient. The body was taken to New Madrid
yesterday for burial.

Note: According to the death certificate of J. H. Bishop,
the above accident occurred on February 16, 1910. He was
born in 1848 in New Madrid County and was 62 years of age
at time of death.
Local Newspaper Clipping/Farmington, Missouri/February
1910, submitted by B. Warner