‘A Coroners inquest was held on the lands of Redwood, in the Parish of Lorha, on yesterday, the 24th, on the body of Daniel Hayes, who for several days subsisted almost on the refuse of vegetables, and went out on Friday morning in quest of something in the shape of food, but he had not…
via #OTD in 1846 – Cork Examiner reports death by starvation. — Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland
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