Allegedly because he had been given a constable’s notice that he would lose his home if he did not pay his back rent;which amounted to $32;Paul Colecchi;57;committed suicide today;Tuesday;June 24;1941;by hanging himself by the neck in the bedroom of his three-room apartment at 525 Forest street. The man’s body was found at one o’clock this afternoon by neighbors who told patrolmen Antnony Santora and Alex Snyder they hadn’t seen him since they heard a loud noise in his apartment this morning;between 7:30 and 8 o’clock. Mr.Colecchi;who had been employed in the cleaning house in the Pittsburgh Steel Company plant here until four months ago;committed suicide by tieing a thin rope aroung his neck;then placing the other part of the rope through a hole over a door;standing on a chair and then kicking the chair away. Neighbors told police that Colecchi must have contemplated the act Saturday when they heard him drilling a hole in the wall of his bedroom. The man came to this country from Italy in 1898 and had lived in Monessen most of the time since. His wife died three years ago. He is survived by his mother in Europe;and two brothers;Nunzio Colecchi;of 312 Third street and another brother in McKeesport. Funeral services will be held June 26;1941;at 2 o’clock from Check’s Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.