Lee English Treaty, Liberty Twp, Wabash Co, IN. “He played his last joke” Treaty, Ind March 7 – Lee English, 16 years old, son of a farmer near here, accidently hanged himself. He and his sister were alone, the family being away from home. The young man, thinking to play a joke on his sister, threw a rope over a rafter in the kitchen, climbed upon a chair and place the rope around his neck. He slipped from the chair and the rope broke his neck. Source: Crawfordsville (Weekly) Journal, Montgomery County, Indiana 11 March 1898 p 6.