Suicide - Royal Oak - 1867

We learned from the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, that on Sunday morning a man named Joseph King, a farmer residing near Royal Oak committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree in a wood about a mile and a half from the above place. The body of the unfortunate man was discovered about noon, hanging by a halter from a limb of the tree, by two men who were hunting. His feet nearly touched the ground and the men when they first saw him at a distance, supposed he was standing on the ground looking up into the tree after game. A closer inspection, however, raveled the true state of affairs and they immediately cut the body and conveyed it to his residence. The deceased lived on a rented farm and had recently received notice by the owner to leave. This, together with domestic differences, it is believed, so worked upon his mind as to lead him to self-destruction.