The Cotton Factory Times. — 1908-10-09 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

PLUCKY BOY .AND FAINT ,HEARTED MEN.  An imp.* wee held at the Halfway Ilouse.Hotel, Manelxvitor-road, Droyisclen, on Wedneaday, conoerning the death of Aaron Loin, aged 58, a cotton operative, of Mees-etnet, Ashton, who oomniitted suicide by hanging at broil...len, on Sunday. Olive Williams wife of John William, a carter of 69, .'Nlosa-street, Ashton, said the deceased was her brother, who for some time had worked in thocotton chamber at Met.3o3. 110ee mill. lie had been on short time for several month, and latterly, (wiret to the lockout, had been entirely out of work. Some the lockout commenced he had not earned any money. He was not a member of any union.; ho left the Candroom Union on a t of ahort time. lie spent his money in beer instax."l of paying hie aubicriptions to the union. During the last week or two the deceased had looked very strange, and had appeared wwy depressed. H. unable to pay 168 did te.ll lawmithhowwh'omuldiliave t had lilv"dgo lali,jitsehltee; could not pay for his food and lodgings. On Satur, day evening her husband and the deceased had a few words relative to his not being in the UniOn, hut there wee no throat to turn him out of the home. The deceased then said he felt awfully depreseed because he onuld not pay her. He left the houee about ten o'clock at night, stating that he would have a walk round. He never returned, and she did nut, ere him alavo again. She identified the body on Tuesday night upon &ening a small paragraph in t6r.‘JoLaP'l344e (13), of illecktherne-etreet, Ardwicik, stated that at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon he was walking up Clayton brow with a friend. They met the deocaeed oomang down the hill, and he looked very etrange. The deceased tat down on the hedge fence, and he azal his companion watched him from a distanon of one Yand6 In five minute,' time he glanced up and down Edge Lane, and then climbed over the railings into a field. He 6PP....d to poll his cap over lus eye., and pull a pox, of string out of hie pocket The deceased was near an elderberry bush, and the next thing heard was the sudden map of a branch. Hie "mat," dared him to go and ex, what had happened, and he walked down to the place, Ho thore saw the deceased hanging. He was in a nutting position on the ground, which doped down, with a rope tied round his nook, and the other end attached to the brooch of the Live- In hie opinion the man could have got up if he deaired. He called to a man sitting near by that there was a maji hanging, and the young man ran away " feart.."--(Laughter.) A Juror: The kids were more brave than ho. The Coroner: Yr, a poor man. The witness added that he wont to Coates' Farm, hut two lads.* there told him to clear off. lie went hack to the p/ace where the deceased was, and taw two men coining down the lane. Ho told them what had happened, and one of them gave him a knife with which he cut the body down. One of 64. nissu told him to leave the body for someone eke.  --Tile Comm,: Do you know who they were? Witnoes: No, sir; they wore well dressed men. The Corer: They are two nice men. A juror: Ye., I most ray the witheva i. a brave little fellow.  The Coroner: He teezna to be the only one of the lot with any pluck .8,6-,nt him. Conatable Peivy faid when he heard that a. man had been found hanging he went with the ambu g he wares sss.s _ lance, and found a number of men endeavouring to motors artificial iwpiration. lie. tried several minutes himself, but found that life -was extinct. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane," the Coroner adding that if the deoeased had only spent his money on his union instead of spending it in beer he would have been living at the present time. A juror: Hear. hear.