John GREEN [728]

  General Notes:

1858 SA Birth GREEN John, Daniel GREEN Emily ARMOUR Adelaide 11/321
1889 SA Death 180/202 GREEN John undefined Adelaide; residence: Jamestown, 31y


Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) Fri 16 Aug 1889 Page 4
CORONER'S INQUEST.
SUICIDE.
On Thursday morning the City Coroner held an inquest at the North-terrace Asylum into the death of John Green, a patient, who was found hanging on the previous afternoon in an outhouse belonging to that institution. Evidence was called showing that the deceased, aged thirty-one, had been an inmate of the Asylum for about seven months. When he first went to the Asylum he remained only a few weeks and was discharged, but returned in a few days. He was a blacksmith, and previously resided at Jamestown. He was married and left a wife and two children. The deceased was regarded as a harmless patient, and on the day in question he went into an outhouse. He had been there a few minutes when one of the other patients went to the building and found him hanging to a bracket which held the cistern. The alarm was immediately given and the man cut down, but life was extinct. The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.


The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922) Fri 16 Aug 1889 Page 3
The city coroner (Dr. Whittell) held an in quest at the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum on Thursday morning on the body of John Green, an inmate, who committed suicide by hanging himself In the grounds on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased, who was 31 years of age, was formerly a blacksmith at Jamestown and had a wife and two children. He showed signs of mental derangement about seven months ago, but was discharged after a few days' treatment. After his liberation he quickly relapsed into his former state and was readmitted into the asylum, where he remained until the time of his death. His manner did not excite unusual attention, but on Wednesday afternoon one of the patients entering the watercloset found his body suspended by a leathern strap, from the bracket supporting the water cistern. He had been working in the garden a few minutes previously, but (e)very effort made to restore animation after the body was cut down was of no avail. The strap with which the body was suspended was usually worn as a belt by the deceased. A verdict of suicide while of un sound mind was returned.

  Research Notes:

John married Elizabeth SMART [722] [MRIN: 244], daughter of Edmund Walter SMART [683] and Maria COLBERT [700], on 14 Apr 1884 in Res Of Edmund Smart, Dawson, South Australia. (Elizabeth SMART [722] was born on 7 Dec 1864 in Clarendon, South Australia and died on 7 Aug 1899 in Adelaide, South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

1884 SA Marriage 139/104GREEN John SMART Elizabeth Burra