Accident or Suicide? The gassy death of Peter Ernest Broadhurst
My paternal Grandfather, Peter Ernest Broadhurst was found dead by a coworker when he didn’t show up to work one morning. His wife, my Grandmother, Elizabeth Aspin Broadhurst was not there at the time. No one is alive to know with absolute certainty if he committed suicide but the marriage was known to be a troubled. The couple had faced the tragic death of thier youngest son, Robert T, years earlier and the husband always blamed the wife for allowing it to happen.
Here is the newspaper report of the incident …
