ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: ADAMS, Harold (d. 1952)
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 Lima Machinist
 Commits Suicide

 Harold Adams Found
 Dead in Automobile


 Harold Adams 46, Route 2 Lafayette,was
 discovered dead in his automobile Wed
 Jan 23,1952 morning after being overcome
 by carbon monoxide fumes,sheriff's deputies
 reported.
 Officers said that Mr Adams had taken his
 own life by attaching a garden hose to the
 exhaust pipe and extending it into the
 interior of the vehicle.The car was parked
 in a barn adjoining the Adams residence.
 The body was discovered at 6:15 a.m. by
 the victim's wife Julia.Mrs Adams told
 officers that she found her husband with the motor
 running.Mrs Adams said she had last seen her husband
 Tues afternoon when he left for his job on the 4 p.m. to
 midnight shift at the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp.where
 he was employed as a machinist.Mrs Adams told officers
 that her husband had been despondent over his health.
 The body was removed to the Davis-Miller & Son funeral
 home.Mr.Adams was born Jan 9,1906 in Lima to Noah
 and Maude(Little)Adams.Surviving besides his widow
 are a son Ralph D at home,two daughters, Farel of
 140 1/2 W High St,Helen at home,a brother Emanuel
 of Lima,three sisters;Mrs Clyde(Joanna)Blue,Mrs
 Florence Huston,Mrs Clara Brown all of Lima.
 Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m.Sat in
 the Davis-Miller Cathedral chapel with the
 Rev Willard Thomas officiating.Burial will
 be Munith cemetery,Munith Mi.The body
 will remain in the funeral home until after
 services.