| Show hanged himself ap inquest was held this morning at s sixta east st upon the body of wm thompson it appeared from the evidene he be arose about 6 am today and went out telling ills his wife not to get up until he called her feeling uneasy at his ab absence mrs thompson at about r requested mrs harriet argrove or grove to endeavor to nad find him after looking about for some time lime mrs was shocked to t find bib bia lifeless body hanging by the neck by a rope to the limb of an apple tree in the back of an adjoining lot the horrible story soon BOOB spread and officer andrew smith went tip rip and cut him down it appeared as though he had seated himself on oa a limb of the tree while he put the noose of A 4 rope having an iran ring on the end of it about his reek reck and then slipped off the alm ilm limb and was strangled the ring pressing tg deeply into the windpipe and completely shutting off his hid breath from the testimony of his son J M thompson it was learned that the me deceased was natu naturally Tally of a despondent disposition watch tendency was aggravated grava ted by a serious injury to his head bead received cece ived jorae some years ago while digging a well list last year he be tou bought ht the house where he resided giving a mortgage on it tor for and be worried a good deal about that lest he might not be able to pay it but latterly he had sold the place to 10 advantage and was about to move laway away this morning orning iri the jury brought in ia a verdict to the effect that he had bad hanged hadged himself binal 4 elf while temporarily insane the funeral f will not take place until thursday |
