twist

As the crowed approached the house, Sikes made a noose to slip beneath his armpit and lower himself into a ditch beneath. This did not go well and he ends up hanging himself.

Staggering, as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. The noose was on his neck. It ran up with his weight, tight as a bowstring. He fell for five-and-thirty feet, and then, after a sudden jerk, and a terrible convulsion of the limbs, swung lifeless against the wall.