Lawrence Ward, 30, Overland employe, committed suicide by hanging, in his room at the Merchants’ hotel, St. Clair and Perry streets. His body was dis-covered Sunday morning at four o’clock.

Ward secured a tie around his neck, climbed upon a radiator, and suspended himself from a water pipe on the ceiling. He had been dead several hours when found by hotel attendants, who became suspicious over his absence.

Ill health prompted the act, according to Coroner Henzler’s verdict following an investigation. Ward was a Spanish war veteran and is survived by his parents in Liberty Center, O., his former home. He had been working in Toledo about a month.