Driven to Suicide by His Victim's Ghost

Diamond Street, circa 1913. The building on the left is the Allegheny County morgue.

 

The suicide of John H. Smith, who took his life by hanging himself from a hotel fire escape, proves that even when you get away with murder, you never really get away with murder. Was it really a ghost-- or just his guilt-- that drove him to suicide? The following story is from the June 10, 1890 edition of the Hazleton Plain Speaker.