Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-02
HUNG BY THE NECK.
An Eleventh Street Grocer Com
mits Suicide
BY Hanging Himself in His Stors---His
Family Thinks Hair Dye Softsned
His Brain---The Doctor Says
Mental Depression.

Yesterday morning the people living in
immediate vicinity Of Eleventh and EoH
streets we're startled by hearing Of the self
destruction of one Of their ueighbors, Mr..
Vim. n. Hill The particulars OF the affair,
rs learned from his wife. are as follows:
"on Sunday morning my husband attended
the St. Matthews church service and came
home and eat his dinner. He did not com
plain of anything. went ito Sunday school
in the afternoon and on my return home
md not see my husband; supper time came
and passed but be did not appeal was
not uneasy. suppoSiug he was at his father
residence in East Wheeling, About 10
O'Clock / became somewhat uneasy, but 1t
was then TOO late to send my son 10 East
Wheeling after him. | had very sick
headache and did not rest easily all night
| arose in the morning about o'clock. and
finding the oil in the lamp out, my son aud
went into the store room to I'LL 1t. On
entering the store saw my husband ap
parently standing in the side door. Think
ing be was only standing there,
trying TO fool me, walked up and calling
HIM by name caught hold of him. / then
found he waS..cOld aud dead" Coroner
Schultze was Immediately summoned, and
found that Mr. Hill was swinging from
shelf Immediately over the side door. The
unfortunate man had tied q small rope TO
the shelf, and finding it was not long
enough for his purpose, secured towel, and
| looming il around his neck, fastened 1t to
the rope and then stepped of the landing
| His feet were not two inches of the lower
SEP. Mrs. Pauline HILL wife of the de
c, ased, gave the following testimony before
| the Coroner:
About one week ago he remarked to
one Of the children that If they did MOI
| study their lessons he would blow his brains
| out. He acted funny and was worried about
one week ago. He has used patent hair
| dyes for two or three years. believe tht
| application of the hair dyes affected his
brain. We have always lived happily to
| gether. He was in an excited humor al
day Yesterday. found him hanging to the
shelf about O'Clock this morning. do
rot know any cause for the act. | do not
think he was right in his mind. He wa
injured once internally"
Miss George Wright, young lady who
has lived with the family tor number o.
years, gave the following testimony betor'
! the Coroner:
II first took notice that he acted strangr
ly about Thanksgiving; he washed his fac
and hands in the back room of the stor'
he came down stairs and read the pap!
awhile. asked him if he was going
church, and he said he was not. He wen
Gown street Thanksgiving Day and did nc
| get back until l2:25 p. H. lie had r,
! yolver in the store. He shot into the ce.
Jar, | screamed. and 10 laughed at me. II
used bsir Gye a great deal, and ] told hin
at one time-lsst Saturday night-that il
be did not quit using hair dye, 1t woul:
! soften his brain, and make him crazy. |
do not know the cause Of the act. He live.
very happy with his family"
DR. Jepson, the physician who has attend
cd the family for q number OF years, was o.
+, the opinion that the cause which led to thu
/ man sels destruction was mental depreS
sion with a tendency to insanity.
I The neighbors who have lived near the
family for a number Of years claim tina
( here was 20 trouble of q domestic natur,
in the family as Mr.. and Mrs. Hill got along
nicely together, never having any hart
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