Thomas Barnes
Hanged While Playing Circus

Article taken from The Marion Daily Star, August 26, 1893

PORTSMOUTH, O., Aug. 26. - A little son of Thomas Barnes, aged 10 years, residing near Locust Grove, O., hanged himself under peculiar circumstances. The little fellow was playing circus. He fastened a leather strap to a joist in the barn, the bit of the strap passing through the snap forming a slip noose. This in his play got around his neck, and when found life was extinct.