Although sad, this is interesting to me, as Hannah Jocelyn as shown below
being the daughter of Augustus Jocelyn, her mother was Jane Sinex. In the
1880 census for New Albany Hannah & Joseph Wright are shown in the household
of Jane (Sinex) Jocelyn as daughter/son-in-law. Is there anyone in New
Albany who could check for further information on this tragedy. Was Joseph
Wright tried and convicted, or was the death left "natural" due to blood
poisoning? If my family history is following right, then Jane Sinex Jocelyn
was a sister to my 3rd great grandfather Thomas Sinex (wife Flora West) and
John Sinex (wife Mary Stetser) and with John being the coroner in New Albany
for many years just prior that interim.
Thank you for any help anyone might be able to give me.
Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington)
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:38 PM
Subject: [INFLOYD] Hannah Jocelyn’s Death Feb 1881
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> Surnames: Jocelyn, Wright
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> from the
> Daily Ledger Standard
> New Albany, Indiana 12 Feb 1881
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> Hannah Jocelyn’s Death
> Her Paramour, Joseph Wright, Accused of Murdering Her
> The Physicians and Coroner Say Blood Poisoning
>
> Hannah Jocelyn was the daughter of the late Augustus Jocelyn, of
this
city. Some three years ago she left the city with a man named Joseph
Wright,
but to whom she was not married. This man Wright is a bad man and a
thief.
He is wanted at Louisville for stealing a skiff. He is well known to the
police of this city as a “crooked rascal.” This morning marshal Carpenter
received a letter from the chief of police at Evansville, making inquiries
as to Wright’s antecedents, saying he had him in hoc and believed he had
caused the death of his paramour, Hannah Jocelyn.
> Wright and Hannah Jocelyn lived wretchedly on a little boat that
laid
at the shore at the foot of Oak street, in Evansville. On the 24th
day of
January she gave premature birth to a child. Before her death she told
persons who came to the boat that she was dying from the cruel treatment
she
had received from Wright. She also gave her name to these persons and
her
residence when at home at New Albany. These facts becoming public after
her
death, coroner Hermeling, of Evansville, examined into the case.
> The examination of several witnesses, among them being two doctors,
developed the fact that the woman died from blood poisoning. One of the
witnesses testified that the woman was not Wright’s wife, but Hannah
Jocelyn, and that she had lived with Wright for three years without being
married to him. The same witness said that Wright was cruel to her and
about
three weeks before her death, while their boat was lying at the mouth
of
Green river, he seized her by the hands and drew her over a small door,
injuring her back so severely that she was confined to her bed for some
days. This statement was substantiated by others, who said that the woman
complained of her back up to the time of her death. The coroner thought
seriously at one time of arresting Wright for having caused his paramour’s
death, but on hearing the testimony of the doctors that she had died from
blood poisoning, he returned a verdict to that effect.
> The chief of police of Evansville, however, thought there was
enough
in the case to justify him in arresting and holding Wright until he
could
hear from New Albany. Marshal Carpenter has taken such steps in the case
as
are necessary.
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