Date: February 11 1913

The Cork Examiner, 11 February 1913
DETERMINED SUICIDE.
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HANGED HIMSELF IN HIS KITCHEN.
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Kilrush, Monday.
A determined case of suicide is reported to have occurred on Saturday between ten and eleven o'clock a.m. at a place near Knockalough Lake, near the village of Kilmihill. The man's name was Pat Halpin, the occupier of a labourer's cottage, and he was an ex-summons server. He hanged himself from the rafters in the kitchen of the dwelling house. The unfortunate man, who was in perfect health, and not labouring under any worries or poverty, at the hour mentioned sent out his two younger children—a boy and a girl—ostensibly for the purpose of getting them out of the way for some tar and sugar, and then committed the rash act. When they returned they found the entrance door bolted, and on looking through the window saw that their father was suspended from the ceiling.
An alarm was given immediately, and Halpin's body was cut down, but death had supervened. The deceased was about 60 years of age, and leaves a wife and family, the most of the members of which are grown up. The Kilmihill police have communicated with Mr. Thomas Lillis, J.P., Coroner of West Clare, Churchtown. An inquest was subsequently held at which a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, was returned by the jury.
The greatest sympathy is felt for his wife and children. He is said to have been a hard-working and industrious man, and respected by his neighbours.

IRISH SUFFRAGISTS
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CONCESSION TO PRISONERS.
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Dublin, Monday Night.
The Lord Lieutenant has granted concessions demanded on behalf of the suffragist prisoners in Tullamore gaol undergoing sentence for breaking the Dublin Castle windows—that is the same treatment accorded to male political prisoners.
Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, addressing a meeting in Tullamore, emphatically proclaimed that the women would not be much longer without the vote. They had been smashing and hitting out and suffering for the faith that was in them. The Duke of Wellington, on the occasion of the Reform Bill had to put up iron shutters on the windows of the House to prevent men who demanded the vote from smashing them. They might have to resort to the same expedient at Dublin Castle.
Mrs. Hoskins, suffragist, who was released from Tullamore Gaol on Saturday through the collapse following a hunger strike, was to-day in a critical condition. The remaining three prisoners have abandoned the hunger strike on the promise that political prisoners' privileges would be accorded them.
REMARKABLE CENTENARIAN.
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Thurles, Monday.
To-day the remains of an old man named Michael Duggan of Caher, Thurles, who was said to have reached the age of 110 years, were interred at Twomileborris, Thurles. The old man was of an extremely hale and hearty constitution, and retained his full mental faculties to the last. Up to a few weeks ago he was able to be about and to attend to his little garden. He always attributed his long and healthy life to his [?] habits and his frugal dietary.