Mexborough and Swinton Times January 3, 1930

Hanged On Stairs.

Wath Man Ends His Misery

A verdict of “Suicide by hanging with no evidence to show the state of mind other than being depressed owing to nystagmus,” was recorded by Mr. J. Kenyon parker, at an inquest at Wath on. Wednesday on Albert Goodison (64), of 53, Hollowgate Rd. Wath.

Evidence of the widow and son, Maurice Goodison, showed that on Monday afternoon Mrs. Goodison left home to go shopping, leaving her husband in a chair smoking his pipe. He appeared quite normal.

Returning about tea-time, she could not find her husband and sent her son to various relatives to inquire. He could not be found and search was continued until nearly midnight.

The son then going to bed suddenly noticed his father hanging behind a curtain on the attic stairs. He screamed and rushed from the house calling for neighbours. Several ran into the house and helped to cut the man down. He had hanged himself by a piece of cable cord from the bannister of the attic stairs.

Dr. Adam Johnston was I called and, upon arrival pronounced life extinct. Mrs. Goodison said that her husband bad been suffering for fourteen months from nystagmus and at times became depressed owing to the pains he suffered in the head and eyes.

A verdict as stated was recorded.