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TOOK III* OW.\ LIFE.Ounalil .Si or in, ol' llarriaon Town-Commit* Suicide.Tuesday noon, Coroner Kirkpatrick received a telegram requesting liiui tocome to Convoy, as Oswald Storm hadtaken his own life by hanging.The deceased was a farmer, 55 years of age, and while he was a man worth considerable money and enjoyed the respect of his neighbors, lie had few other pleasures in this world and had been heard upon several occasions to say that had he a revolver he would kill himself His trouble was caused by having one of his legs broken about len years ago, since which time he has been a constant sufferer of acute rheumatic pains, from which he sought relief by suicide.The morning of his death he told his wife he was going to the field to help his boys, who were working there; but be did not go, and when his sons returned to the house at noon they found him hanging iu the barn with a halter about his neck, dead. The rafter over which he had thrown the halter was so low that ho had to hold up his feet to keep them from touching the floor.Only last week he made his will and remarked at the time that he Would not he here n month.He leaves a wife and four grown : up children to mourn his sad death. I
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Van Wert Republican
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Thu, Apr 04, 1889
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