Show Snlclde Salem Mass 1 Mayor Colley whose term of office expired today hanged himself this afternoon The suicide is not much of a surprise sur-prise to the intimate friends of Mayor Colley A year ago he lost his wife to whom he was devotedly attached Last winter he was appointed ap-pointed to receive and count the ballots at caucus for representatives representa-tives He subsequently charged with wrongful manipulations of returns The charge was denied by him both in public and private He was in poor health and hIS memory faing A majority of his fellowcitizens are inclined to view charitably the apparent mistakes in the returns The charges however how-ever preyed on his mind and he has teen somewhat gloomy and despondent ever since Cincinnati 1The body of a dear man was found in a room in Hunters Hun-ters Hotel this morning lie had registered as Dr Thomas of Indiana ana but left a letter to the proprietor 1 proprie-tor of the hotel saying he was DrI I J B Thompson of SaulsburyCon necticut and directing him to telegraph tele-graph his wife at that place and his sister in Brooklyn He had 150 in money and a gold watch on his person per-son He died of morphine |