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27 September 1926
The News
Frederick MD
Funeral Wednesday of Suicide Victim
Luther C. Zimmerman Hanged Self in Garage
At Church in the Morning
Luther C. Zimmerman, 70, a well known retired farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself
in a garage at the home of his brother, Curtis T. Zimmerman, Trail avenue, with whom he
resided, about 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. After viewing the body and hearing the
circumstances of the act, Justice Sherman P. Bowers, acting coroner, decided an inquest
was unnecessary.
Mr. Zimmerman, apparently in his usual health, attended church Sunday morning and
afterward returned home. Early in the afternoon he assisted his brother and sister, the
latter Miss Isabella Zimmerman, to cut some flowers, which were taken to Mt. Olivet
cemetery and placed on graves in the family lot. When Mr. Zimmerman and his sister
returned to the garage to put away their car they found the lifeless body of their brother
suspended from a rope, one end of which had been attached to a rafter.
Sheriff Ingomar W. Albaugh was notified and in company with Policeman George Nogle went to
the garage and the sheriff cut down the body. Justice Sherman P. Bowers and Dr. Edward P.
Thomas arrived soon afterward. It was evident that life had been extinct for some time.
While no reason can be assigned for the rash act, it is believed that the condition of his
health prompted him to end his life. A step-ladder, close to the suspended body,
indicated that he mounted the ladder, fastened one end of a rope to a rafter, made a noose
of the other end and slipped it over his head. He then jumped from the ladder.
He is survived by three other brothers, Isaac C. Zimmerman, Feagaville; Cephas H.
Zimmerman, near this city, and Cornelius F. Zimmerman, Denver, Colo., and one sister, Miss
Isabella Zimmerman. Funeral from his late home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Burial Mt. Olivet cemetery. M. R. Etchison and Son, funeral directors.
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