PRISONER IN CITY JAIL HANGS SELF

W.P.A. Worker Jailed On Complaint Of Conduct

Ernie Miller, 59 years of age, was found Friday night in the city jail suspended by a wire with life extinct. From all appearances the city authorities report that the cause of his death was suicide.

Miller, it is reported, had been drinking and had caused a disturbance at his home on West street by breaking up the furniture and driving the family from home. A call to the police resulted in his arrest and incarceration in the city jail.

Later on in the evening the police lodged a couple of hoboes in the jail for an overnight lodging and later on a third. When the third hobo was taken to the jail the first two notified the officer of the suicide.

The body was found suspended from the top of the cell. A wire which had been used for hanging clothes to dry when the hoboes did they washing had been taken and served as a rope. Apparently the victim had been dead for about forty minutes.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Campbell mortuary, and interment was made in an Omaha cemetery.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~