OBIT: Frank W. ADAMS, 1902, Tunnelhill, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 28 Nov 1902

COMMITTED SUICIDE

Frank W. Adams, aged about forty years, committed suicide at his home 
in Tunnelhill borough, near Gallitzin, on Tuesday afternoon by hanging 
himself from a rope thrown over a rafter in the stable.  A box which he 
had evidently stood on and then kicked from under him told the story of 
his death.

Adams had been employed as a section boss on the P. R. R. until last 
summer, operating between Bennington and Kittanning Point.  A sunstroke 
he experienced then affected his nervous system and an injury to an arm 
into which a piece of steel was driven seemed to have accentuated his 
growing mental trouble.

Coroner E. L. Miller went to Gallitzin for the purpose of inquiring 
into the death but upon learning the facts decided that the man was 
demented when he committed the deed, as other members of his family 
have been insane.

Adams leaves a wife, who before her marriage was Miss Mary Dougherty 
of Ebensburg, who with one child survives him.