Frank Pringle (1869-1927)

PRINGLE, SWISHER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal October 14, 1927 (page 1)

Frank Pringle Insane Patient Commits Suicide

Frank Pringle, 58, inmate of the County Home for the past several years, suicided by hanging himself in the hog barn, over which he had charge, at noon today.

When Pringle failed to show up at the noonday meal, a search revealed his lifeless body, danging by a rope from a rafter in the hog barn, around which he was employed the most of the time.

Pringle was a native of Collins where he was born Nov. 16, 1869 and one of the survivors of a pioneer family in that neighborhood. He was once married but was divorced, has no children and leaves a sister Rose Swisher of Brandon, Fla., and brothers Ben of Miller, S. D., and Irwin of Lincoln, Neb.

Pringle had been adjudged insane and taken to Clarinda in 1910, but was transferred with the incurable insane to the county farm in 1920.