The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-02-24
HARDINSBURG
MAN SUICIDES
While Confined in Louis
vile Jail.
..t
Anon Hook was Under Arrest
on Charge Of Defraud-
ing.

louisville, KY, Feb. 20-With one
end OF his suspenders tighhly knctted
around his neck and the other end
fastened to pipe extending from the
center of his cell, Anon Hook,
young man said to have confessed
to thirteen charges of Obtaining money
by false pretenses, was found dead at
5 O'Clock Friday morning in the Jeffer-
son county Jail. Night Guard Z. l..
Rothenbunger was told that man ha
committed suicide in cell No. Is
when he unlocked the doors of Tier ID
third floor, by one of the prisoners.
Thinking that perhaps there was a
chance of reviving the man RotIhenbur
ger ran to the cell and cut the man
down. The body was stiff, and af-
ter an examination Deputy Coroner
Kammerer stated that he had been
dead for six hours or more.
Hook was arrested on warrants swor,
out by DR.. c. c. English charging that
Hook and obtained money under false
pretenses. 1t is stated that DR.. Eng
flsh was swindled out of $40. The
physician had attended Hooks wife,
who is now at the City Hospital, and
had been given two checks for his
services one for $40 and one for Sc.
DIR. English had given Hook $40 in re-
turn for these checks, his services
representing the rest Warrants had
been sworn out against Hook also by
Fred First, and George Resch.
Monday morning he was presented
in City Court, but his case was con-
tdnued until February 81. He is said
to have remarked to prisoners in the
same tier with him that he would
not go to the penitentiary," aud
among the things taken from him at
the time of his arrest was the follow
ing verse. which was dated Cloverport,
KY, October Is, 1910:
when You see this
Remember me,
ituO III bhio WIZ III ludy IlOI D6
But if the grave shall be my lot,
ANON Hook forget me not
Hook was arrested at the residence
of Mrs. Cohen, SIC South Seventh
street, where it is said he had been
staying for the past four or five days
previous to his arrest. He had been
M dary
but had been here previously.
Several weeks ago his wife was ar
rested on a charge of disorderly con-
duct and through Hooks efforts she
was paroled She has been at the City
Hospital for several days and suffered
a severe shock when she was told
that her husband had committed sui
eide.
Hook was native of Hardins-
burg, KY. He carried with him
a pass book on the bank of Glendeane,
KY, upon which various amounts had
been entered by Hook himself. These
amouonts totaled 2S4.50 while the only
deposit Hook had made was 81 IT
was upon the strength of this pass
book that Hook is said to have been
able to obtain the money which it is
alleged, he secured.
Hook was twenty-three years of age
and rather small stature He dressed
fairly we'll. When found he was fully
dressed with the exception of his coat,
shoes and hat. To have been able
to reach the pipe extending from the
oeiling IL his cell and tie his sus-
penders to enable him to hang himsel
Hook stood on his cot When he had
securely fastened one end to the pipe
Hook tied two knots in the suspen-
ders, which fitted behind each ear,
before he tied the two ends around
his neck
Although guards passed by his cell
every half hour during the might Hook
managed to work SO quietly that no
sound was heard. If he stnangled Il
was between the rounds of the guard
Jailer Pflanz deplored the tragedy
when he was notified but auuributed
the reason that the discovery was not
made sooner to the fact that tine cells
are kept dark during the might u Is
probable that Hook hanged himself
between IL and IL O'Clock.
The police turned over TO Deputy
Coroner Kammerer papers taken from
Hook when he was placed under ar
rest. Among these papers was one
from Allen R. Kincheloe an atlor-
ney OF Hardinsburg, who asked Hook
n he desired to dispose Of his interest
IN his father's place.
Mrs. Hook is only eighteen Years 81
ago. She married two years ago IN
Hardinsburg. On saturday morning
shortly after the arrest OF her hus-
hand she was set INTO the hospital