James Jones

 Stillwater Valley News

February 7, 1938 

Former Trojan Is Found Dead Sunday 

The body of  James Jones, 75, a native of Troy, who has been an inmate of the Montgomery County home for several years, was found hanging head downward in a wire fence near Dayton Sunday noon.

Two men who were working bird dogs in a field nearby saw the body and notified authorities.  The county coroner R. D. Snyder, gave a verdict of death by exposure. 

Evidently the aged man was attempting to climb over a wire fence and became entangled in it, became exhausted and died of exposure. 

The coroner said the body had evidently been hanging in the fence for several days.