Morgan County OhArchives News.....FRED McCONAHA IN JAIL HERE TAKES HIS LIFE BY HANGING July 4, 1929
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MORGAN CO.  DEMOCRAT VOL.  60 July 4, 1929
MORGAN CO.  DEMOCRAT VOL.  60 JULY 4, 1929

FRED McCONAHA IN JAIL HERE TAKES HIS LIFE BY HANGING

  Sunday about noon Fred McConaha, prisoner here in the jail committe suicide 
by hanging himself with a towel.  He and three other prisoners were in the 
jail and a few minutes before he committed the deed, he clos ed the door, 
shutting the others in their cells.  Going around the cells to the toilet he 
took a clean towel, such as had been issued to each of the prisoners a short 
time before, by Mrs. Henery, jail Matron.  He tore it length wise and fastened 
the ends together.  Standing up on the edge of the stool of the toilet, he 
fastened the ends together.  Standing up on the edge of the stool of the 
toilet, he fasted the towel around his neck then tied it to the iron lattice 
work above and stepped off the stool.  His groans and struggles alarmed the 
other prisoners and they tried to call the sheriff, who with his wife was 
sitting on the front porch of their residence, but since it was raining 
neither the sheriff nor his wire heard the cries.  However the screams and 
noises among the prisoners were heard in the Walker restuaraunt just across 
the alley and the sheriff sister Mrs. Ola McKibbin an employee of the 
restuaraunt hastened to the sheriff telling him something must be wrong in the 
jail.  Going to the jail he found McConaha haging, his feet about a foot from 
the floor.  The sheriff say, Thatlife was extinct and he at once called 
coroner Carl Miller who came and took charge of the body.
  McConaha was 55 yrs of age, they have eight children.  His father resides in 
Zanesville.  The deceased was a coal miner.  April 19, he was placed under 
arrest on the charge of larcency, stealing automobile accessories, and was 
found guilty of the charge here in common pleas court, and was fined $ 50.00 
and cost, amounting in all to about $ 130.00 and in default of payment he was 
sent to jail.  With him implicatedin the crime were his son in law Ira Giffin, 
Lee Love and Tod Dickens.  Lee Love is out on bond and the others are seving 
out their sentence here in jail McConaha just before hanging himself and after 
he had locked the others in their cells wrote on a piece of yellow paper a not 
to his son in law, which read as follows, " IRA YOU TAKE ME AND BURY ME.  I 
SAW THEM ALL TALKING AND I LOCKED THEM IN FOR A JOKE." signed Fred McConaha.  
Those locked in were Ira Giffin, Clifford Hill, Kenneth Allen.  Todd Dickens 
has been a trusty, and was out of jail at the time.
  The body was held here at Miller undertakers parlor until early Monday 
morning when the Glouster undertaker came and took it to the place.
  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon and interament was made in 
Glouster cemetary.
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MAN KILLS HIMSELF IN COUNTY JAIL/ FRANK McCONAHAY USES TOWELL IN TAKING OWN 
LIFE

GLOUSTER: JULY 2. ( Staff Special )  Frank McConahay 55 of Derthick Vicinity 
committed suicide in the Morgan County Jail at 
Mcconnelsville                                                                 
 Sunday by hanging himself with a Towel.
   After the sheriff had locked the prisoners in thir cells Sunday morning, 
Mcconahay tore a towel into strips and hanged    himself from the top of the 
cell.  Other prisoners seeing his act succeeded in giving an alarm, but 
McConahay was dead                            when the sheriff arrived and 
unlocked the cell.
Recently McConahay had been tried and found guilty of stealing accessories 
from an automobile in Homer Township    The fine and costs in his case 
amounted $ 183.00 which he was serving out in jail at the rate of $ 1.50 a 
day.  Two others      implicated with McConahay in the stealing are at present 
in jail in McConnelsville.
The body of McConahay was brought to this city Monday and taken to the home of 
a brother inlaw and sister, Mr. and     Mrs. John Williams near old Mine 2.  
Funeral services were of Oakdale.  Burial was made in the Glouster Cemetery.
 McConahay leaves his widow and several grown children...
JULY 2, 1929


 THIS ARTICLE WAS TAKEN WORD FOR WORD FREDRICK McCONAHAY NAME WRONG.  THEY HAD 
HIS                                           NAME DOWN AS FRANK WHICH ISN'T 
HIS NAME........



      DEATH DATE      JUNE 29, 1929

Hung himself in Morgan County Jail

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