The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-12-17
ENDS LIFE
BY HANGING
Lifeless BODY Found in
Wagon Shed.
POCKETS FULL OF MONEY
A Small Fortune is Found on
His Person.
James Wilson, Farm Hand with
Plenty of Money, Pleasant Home
Takes His Own Life.

money and his bachelor quarters
equipped with everything that could
possibly add to the comfort OF man.
LANES Wilson, farm hand, aged 81
years. committed suicide by hanging
at the home of Gottlieb Mack, seven
miles south of the city, Monday
night.
Wilson had remarked to friend
that he had nothing to live for: that
friends, relatives and all happiness
was gone. His health was failing
fast and in this demented condition
it is supposed that he was prompted
to take his own life.
The suicide was a westerner ana
only came to this country three years
ago. He had been a cowboy, but for
some peculiar reason had been driven
from his homeland. The story OF his
past life was never disclosed only In
part.
That the victim was miser was
demonstrated when Dr. e. l.. Brady,
coroner of Marion county, searched
his clothes. Bills ranging in size
from five to twenty dollars and
amounting to $S45. SO were found
neatly bound in small bundles and
securely wrapped in tobacco sacks.
In the trouser pockets of the dead
man there was found $50 90 and the
remainder was found in leather suit
case which lay unlocked beneath the
bed in his room.
| The case was a very peculiar one
in many respects. Wilson had been
working as farm hand for Mr..
Mack the past three years. He was
apparently well educated and kept
tail. He also had score of memo
randum books in which he kept ac-
count of every dollar spent and ev-
, cry one earned. He had often re-
marked to Mr.. Mack that he was
saving his money, for what reason
he did not know but would end his
remarks sadly stating, "No one will
ever get any good out Of my money ~
AS to just what he meant by the
statement is not exactly known, but
lit is thought that he had intended to
bury It.
The majority of the bills found
were of the very Oldest style and
bore evidence of having been carried
for many years. In one package
alone there was two hundred dol
lars. The package was wrapped in
fifteen tobacco sacks and formed such
a compact bundle that it appeared on
lily TO be a package OF tobacco. Many
of the suicides acquaintances are
lof the opinion that what money was
found is not one-half his fortune and
that he has buried the bulk of his
riches
| So far as Is known Wilson has no
living relatives. He had often told
Mr.. Mack that he was alone in the
world. He was very quiet and unas-
suming in his actions and his fav-
orite pasttime was smoking his old
clay pipe which he always kept on a
small shelf in his room. He was very
superstitious and believed that as
long as he had rabbits foot in his
pocket, no harm could befall him.
Wherever a dollar of his money was
found, there was always a rabbits
foot lying near 1t. There was ex-
actly nine OF the feet found in his
pockets. There were no weapons
whatever found in his clothes or
room, and 1t was evident that he
trusted the safety of his money all
to the protection OF the rabbit foot.
| Wilson was found early Tuesday
morning by Mr.. Mack. He was
hanging from a beam in a small wag-
on shed located near the house. No one
had ever heard him threaten suicide
and little attention was paid to his
| peculiar actions.
4 When last seen alive. Wilson was
sitting in his room smoking his pipe.
He had taken off his shoes and was
apparently in a deep study. II is
thought that Immediately after the
Mack family had retired he had
wended his way quickly to the shed
and committed the act. When found
the victims shoeless feet was rest
ing on the bottom of wagon box
which was beneath the beam. II was
evident that after the rope had