OBIT: Harry L. STOOPS, 1918, formerly of Dauphin County, PA

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Long Ill, Ends Life With Bathrobe Cord

  WAYNESBORO, June 18. - Long ill from tuberculosis and becoming 
despondent over prospects that he would never get well, Harry L. 
Stoops, 38 years old, committed suicide at the home of his step-
brother, Morris C. Sharrah, along the Leitersburg road, near the iron 
bridge, south of this place.
  Stoops had suffered for several years from tuberculosis and had spent 
some time at the White Pine Sanatorium at Mont Alto, but had left there 
several months ago.  Feeling that he was not getting any better since 
he returned to the home of his step-brother, he again made application 
to the sanatorium, but failing to get admission at once, he became 
melancholy.
  He took the belt from his bathrobe and placing one end of it around 
his neck, he fastened the other end to a rafter in the attic of the 
Sharrah home and hung himself.  Mrs. Sharrah found his body three hours 
later.  Stoops was for many years a resident of this place.  He is 
survived by a daughter and son.

The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Tuesday, June 18, 1918