CAUSE OF A STRIKER'S DEATH.TROY, March 6.--The Coroner's jury in the case of Jacob R. Drum, who was shot last week while in company with other strikers, employes [sic] of Hoyt and Wynkoop's Nickel Works, engaged in intimidating John Wynkoop, and who died last Wednesday, rendered a verdict that death was by apoplexy. The verdict is in harmony with the evidence.
Source: Unknown, "Cause of a Striker's Death," The New York Times, New York, Sunday, 7 March 1880, p. 1.
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