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A Farmer's Suicide

A Farmer's Suicide image
Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Oliver Kimberly, who bas recently been boarding at the home of Ira Backus,in Webster township.suicided yester. day morning, in the barn of Mr. Baekus, by hanging. He was found in the morning, when the men went to do the chores, suspended f rom a beam by a strap. His body was cold and he had evidently been dead some hours. The family had heard him leave the house at about two o'clock. He had been in poor health for some time and had not been regarded as mentally bright, but he was quiet and inoffensive and nobody suspected his ever harboring suicidal thoughts. It is believed the act was done in a moment of insanity. He was 46 years of age and unmarried.