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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Brookes | | | Rank/ occupation | Lieut.-col. |  | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 6 Apr 1834 | | | Place of death | Stafford  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | May 1834 | | | Page number | 566 | | | Detail | At Stafford, aged 56, Lieut.-col. Brookes, E.I.C. brother to F. Brookes, esq. Town Clerk of Stafford. He was found sitting in his arm chair, in his night dress, an unloaded pistol in his right hand, which rested on the arm of the chair; two loaded pistols were on the table before him. It appeared that he had put the pistol in his mouth, which was shattered, and the ball had gone out at the top part of the back of his head. Behind him, on another chair, was found his night-cap, which, on being examined, was found to contain some hard substances, that proved to be the bulletand two pieces of his skull; the cap having been blown off his head by the force of these projectiles. Verdict, Insanity. |
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