Just because he did not want to go to school, it is said, James Barbour, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barbour of Bentonville township, attempted suicide Wednesday by tying a rope around his neck and jumping from a tree which he had climbed.
“I ain’t going to school,” he is said to have declared, and when his parents asserted that he would go, he went out and endeavored to end his life. He climbed the tree, according to our information, and swung off, but missed calculation and was only somewhat strangled. He swung back and though pale and weak from the effort jumped again. This time his mother watched him helplessly as he dangled from a rope 15 feet above until he was black in the face. He swung from the limb until Miss Pauline George, a school teacher, climbed the tree, grasped the tree with one arm and held the boy with the other until someone climbed up and cut the rope.
Medical aid was summoned immediately, but for 24 hours he lay unconscious. He has, however, recovered sufficiently to be up now.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, March 30, 1926
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