Johnstown Daily Tribune, Friday, June 19, 1914
HANGED HIMSELF WHERE FATHER DID
Jacob Sporys Wife Fainted At Sight Of His Suspended Body
BARN NEAR BOSWELL
Boswell, June 19In the same barn where his father hanged himself 18 or 20 years ago, Jacob Spory yesterday tied a rope about his neck, fastened the other end to a rafter, and then jumped from a box, strangling to death. The Spory family lives about four miles north of Boswell. Mrs. Spory went to the barn about 4:30 oclock and collapsed at the sight of her husbands body suspended by the neck. Before lapsing into unconsciousness she screamed, attracting the attention of others at the house, and when they reached the barn they found Mr. Spory hanging to a rafter and his wife lying prostrate on the barn floor. No reason for the act of Mr. Spory is assigned, unless he killed himself after brooding over the fact that his mother, who died May 7, made no bequest to him in her will. He had not been ill and worked about the farm. If he was despondent, he did not show it, his relatives say. Besides his widow, Mr. Spory is survived by several brothers, as follows: Philip, David, Robert, and George, all of this locality. Mrs. Uriah Brown, of 720 Highland Avenue, Johnstown, is a sister-in-law of the deceased. The body was turned over to Undertaker L. G. Hoffman, of Boswell, and Coroner H. S. Kimmel, of Macdonaldton, was notified, but he decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Funeral services will be held at St. James Lutheran Church, near Boswell, at 10 oclock Sunday morning, and interment will be in the adjoining cemetery.
HANGED HIMSELF WHERE FATHER DID
Jacob Sporys Wife Fainted At Sight Of His Suspended Body
BARN NEAR BOSWELL
Boswell, June 19In the same barn where his father hanged himself 18 or 20 years ago, Jacob Spory yesterday tied a rope about his neck, fastened the other end to a rafter, and then jumped from a box, strangling to death. The Spory family lives about four miles north of Boswell. Mrs. Spory went to the barn about 4:30 oclock and collapsed at the sight of her husbands body suspended by the neck. Before lapsing into unconsciousness she screamed, attracting the attention of others at the house, and when they reached the barn they found Mr. Spory hanging to a rafter and his wife lying prostrate on the barn floor. No reason for the act of Mr. Spory is assigned, unless he killed himself after brooding over the fact that his mother, who died May 7, made no bequest to him in her will. He had not been ill and worked about the farm. If he was despondent, he did not show it, his relatives say. Besides his widow, Mr. Spory is survived by several brothers, as follows: Philip, David, Robert, and George, all of this locality. Mrs. Uriah Brown, of 720 Highland Avenue, Johnstown, is a sister-in-law of the deceased. The body was turned over to Undertaker L. G. Hoffman, of Boswell, and Coroner H. S. Kimmel, of Macdonaldton, was notified, but he decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Funeral services will be held at St. James Lutheran Church, near Boswell, at 10 oclock Sunday morning, and interment will be in the adjoining cemetery.
Johnstown Daily Tribune, Friday, June 19, 1914
HANGED HIMSELF WHERE FATHER DID
Jacob Sporys Wife Fainted At Sight Of His Suspended Body
BARN NEAR BOSWELL
Boswell, June 19In the same barn where his father hanged himself 18 or 20 years ago, Jacob Spory yesterday tied a rope about his neck, fastened the other end to a rafter, and then jumped from a box, strangling to death. The Spory family lives about four miles north of Boswell. Mrs. Spory went to the barn about 4:30 oclock and collapsed at the sight of her husbands body suspended by the neck. Before lapsing into unconsciousness she screamed, attracting the attention of others at the house, and when they reached the barn they found Mr. Spory hanging to a rafter and his wife lying prostrate on the barn floor. No reason for the act of Mr. Spory is assigned, unless he killed himself after brooding over the fact that his mother, who died May 7, made no bequest to him in her will. He had not been ill and worked about the farm. If he was despondent, he did not show it, his relatives say. Besides his widow, Mr. Spory is survived by several brothers, as follows: Philip, David, Robert, and George, all of this locality. Mrs. Uriah Brown, of 720 Highland Avenue, Johnstown, is a sister-in-law of the deceased. The body was turned over to Undertaker L. G. Hoffman, of Boswell, and Coroner H. S. Kimmel, of Macdonaldton, was notified, but he decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Funeral services will be held at St. James Lutheran Church, near Boswell, at 10 oclock Sunday morning, and interment will be in the adjoining cemetery.
HANGED HIMSELF WHERE FATHER DID
Jacob Sporys Wife Fainted At Sight Of His Suspended Body
BARN NEAR BOSWELL
Boswell, June 19In the same barn where his father hanged himself 18 or 20 years ago, Jacob Spory yesterday tied a rope about his neck, fastened the other end to a rafter, and then jumped from a box, strangling to death. The Spory family lives about four miles north of Boswell. Mrs. Spory went to the barn about 4:30 oclock and collapsed at the sight of her husbands body suspended by the neck. Before lapsing into unconsciousness she screamed, attracting the attention of others at the house, and when they reached the barn they found Mr. Spory hanging to a rafter and his wife lying prostrate on the barn floor. No reason for the act of Mr. Spory is assigned, unless he killed himself after brooding over the fact that his mother, who died May 7, made no bequest to him in her will. He had not been ill and worked about the farm. If he was despondent, he did not show it, his relatives say. Besides his widow, Mr. Spory is survived by several brothers, as follows: Philip, David, Robert, and George, all of this locality. Mrs. Uriah Brown, of 720 Highland Avenue, Johnstown, is a sister-in-law of the deceased. The body was turned over to Undertaker L. G. Hoffman, of Boswell, and Coroner H. S. Kimmel, of Macdonaldton, was notified, but he decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Funeral services will be held at St. James Lutheran Church, near Boswell, at 10 oclock Sunday morning, and interment will be in the adjoining cemetery.
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