Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Hall, William B. 1930
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Payette Enterprise 7-10-1930
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, July 10, 1930
 
LOCAL MAN SUICIDES
 
WILLIAM B. HALL TAKES OWN LIFE AT RANCH HOME -- NO CAUSE KNOWN FOR RASH ACT
 
William B. Hall, a rancher living on the Oregon side, one mile west of the 
Snake river bridge, committed suicide Tuesday night by hanging.  No cause is 
known for the rash act.  It is thought it may have been temporarily mental 
derangement.
 
Mr. Hall who is 38 years of age was the owner of the old Maxfield ranch west 
of Payette and was assisting a neighbor Tuesday in the hay field and 
apparently was well and in his usual frame of mind.  He attended to his 
regular duties about the place that evening and had been listening to the 
radio, his wife had gone to bed and shortly after awoke and found Mr. Hall was 
missing.  She was not alarmed, as he had often went to the irrigation ditch to 
take a bath before going to bed, but got up to make search and notified Mr. 
Jessie Ball, a neighbor, who is an uncle of Mr. Hall, who came to assist in 
the search and found his body hanging by a rope from the rafters of the 
stable.  The authorities, including the coroner of Malheur county of Ontario 
was notified and came to investigate the case.  No inquest will be held.  The 
body was brought to the Landon funeral Home, where the funeral will be held 
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
 
Mr. Hall was a highly respected man who has lived in this community for many 
years.  He is survived by a wife and three children, the eldest, a daughter, 
12 years of age.  He is also survived by a mother who lives at Seattle; two 
uncles, Jessie and Snowden Bell of Payette.

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