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Show The Hanging. Coroner Taylor and a jury held an inquest Tuesday evening on the body of George Russell, the young lad in the seventh ward who hung himself. The verdict was suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding this verdict, we thiok the c:ise is one that should be more thoroughly investigated by the authorities. author-ities. Numerous stories are afloat, an apparent effort beiug made to cover up the real facts. It seems impreb-able impreb-able that young Russell, who was between 12 and 13 years of age, executed himself in the manner in which the deed was done. When discovered be was hanging by the neck, and had the appearance of having been doad several houra. A two-bushel Back was drawn over his head and his hands had ovidently been t ltd, though in his struggles one of them became free. The rope ! was fastened to a rafter, in order to reach which the boy must have stood on a bedstead, and when hang ing his body swung Against 1 the bedstead. If he had no assistance assist-ance in the affair, he must have been ; most determined in the matter, and cool and calculating. The hanging occurred in a room adjoining that in which the boy's mother and others were sitting, ant! even a slight noise in one room can be distinctly heard in tho other. When George was discovered dis-covered hanging, by his little sister, the latter told aer mother, who requested re-quested Sidney Hudson, who was with her, to go into the next room and cut the boy down. It appears that the lad has not borne a very good character char-acter for some time. The neighbors state that he was looked upon as a pretty "hart! boy." HiB mother was in the habit of whipping him severely, and it is said gave him a flogging on the morning before the hanging. She told him to clean the front d xjr step, which lie declined to do, Baying he would rather die, whereupon she administered the castigation. One story is that he then took the rope, and went around the house muttering mutter-ing something, and was next seen hanging. There are some peculiar circumstances circum-stances connected with the case, which would certainly warrant an investigation. |