Suicide-Son of Deacon Finch-1857

FINCH

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 3/5/2020 at 17:17:12

The Eureka, Anamosa, Tuesday, July 14, 1857

SUICIDE-We learn that-FINCH, son of Deacon Finch, of Massillon, Cedar County, Iowa, hung himself on last Tuesday, about 4 o’clock P. M. He was with the vigilance committee at the time they took KELSO and his comrade, and on casting a vote whether they should be hung or not, he cast his vote in favor of hanging, but left before they were hung. When he returned home, his mother asked him if they had caught the men. He said they had, and he had voted to hang them. His mother told him he ought not to take that which he could not give; after she had talked with him a few moments, he left her and went to his plowing, attended to that for a while, when he hitched his horse, and taking one of the reins, went to a tree, tied the strap to a low limb and around his neck, then let his weight down, and when found his knees touched the ground, and he was dead.