Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-15 | Page 3 | Yale Teacher Hangs Himself

YALE TEACHER HANGS HI SELF Body of cf f Noted Is Found in Thicket Near His Home NEW HAVEN Conn Cona Jul July 15 V JP- Overwork and ill health were blamed today for the suicide of Professor Raymond Raymond Ray Ray- mond P. P Dougherty noted Yale ori od who hanged himself in a blueberry blue blue- berry thicket The man who spent years studying the mysteries of the ancient east was missing 30 hours before a negro youth picking berries found his body swinging swing swingS ing from a hickory tree near his residence resi rest dence in Hamden a suburb The discovery ended an intensive search He left home Thursday sayIng say say- Ing tag he was going for a walk I Dr George Joslin medical examIner exam Iner ner said Mrs Dougherty told him that her husband had been in ill health He had been n on a leave of absence from Yale since April because be cause of a nervous breakdown Born in Lebanon Pa the orient orient- alist ha ha haa a varied career before coming coming corning com corn ing to Yale including four years' years servIce service service ser ser- vice as American vice consul at Freetown Freetown Free Free- town Sierra Leone West Vest Africa while principal of the Albert academy academy acad acad- emy the United Brethren church mission school In that place 1 He was graduated from Lebanon Valley college Annville Pa Bonebrake Bonebrake Bonebrake Bone- Bone brake Theological seminary Dayton Ohio and Yale Before going to Africa Professor Dougherty was principal of the normal normal nor nor- mal department of Leander Clark college college col col- col lege T Toledo ledo Iowa After returning from Africa Alrica in 1914 he became professor of Biblical literature lit lit- er ture at Goucher college Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more remaining there until 1926 when he was named William Villiam M. M Laffon fon ion professor of A. A Assyriology and Babylonian lit literature at Yale He also was curator of the university's Babylonian Babylonian Baby Baby- lonian Ionian collection in the Sterling memorial memorial me me- morial library While at Yale he headed an archac- archac logical survey of southern Babylonia Bablonia In Arabia and wrote many works upon his discoveries He was a member mem mern- ber of many scientific societies and wrote frequently for their publications publications He leaves his widow the former Miss Lulu E. E Landis of Dayton Ohio