BOY, HELD FOR OVER MONTH, A SUICIDE IN COUNTY JAIL

Delayed Commitment Of Minor Results In Suicide

BODY SHIPPED TO VERMONT HOME

Sheriff William D. McDonald received a shock Friday evening when on taking a meal to the county jail for Lucian Carbonneau, he found his lifeless body hanging from the top bars of the cell in which he was held. He had hanged himself by using his bed blanket for a rope.

Lucien Carbonneau had since last October 8th been held in custody on a charge of entering the home of Fred Church and stealing several articles of clothing. The theft was committed on Sunday, October 6th, and shortly after that he was apprehended in Fremont and returned to the authorities in Blair.

On questioning the boy, who was but sixteen years of age, it was found that he was not apparently normal; two physicians were asked to make an examination which they did, and their report was to the effect that he was of a retarded intellect and not normal.

An attempt was made to get in touch with his relatives who lived in Barre, Vermont, but this failed. All this time the boy lay in jail and apparently despondent, took his own life sometime last Friday afternoon.

After his death the authorities got in touch with the relatives, and on Tuesday evening the body was shipped to this old home in Barre, Vermont.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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