The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-16

Mr.. Thompson found all the coupons, inclu-
ding those sold to Mr.. Bidwell and Mr..
Knox, and those which had not been sold.
The only mysterious thing about the affair
now is, how Gray got hold of the letter be-
fore it came into the hands of those to whom
it was directed. The supposition is. that
Gray had key that would open Messrs.
Thompson's box at the postofice. io
ECCENTRIC CONDUCT.
Gray hardly ever went up or down our
streets without package of money in his
hands, and never purchased the smallest
article at store without exhibiting enough
apparently, to buy farm. If person
called on him at his Office he would almost
invariably be found counting money, and if
not, he would not sit down to his table to
converse, until he had taken some out of his
safe, and laid it before him. This was
deemed harmless exhibition of vanity, or
a pardonable eccentricity, by the majority
of our citizens, but many of our bankers and
merchants knew that his insane passion was
fast running him. His losses for the last
year are estimated, by one who has
means of knowing, to amount from ten
to fifty dollars per day. He has been
known to buy in the morning, an East
ern draft which be had no occasion to use,
paying as high as two per cent, and in
an hour afterwards, offering the same at
another bank for one or one and half per
cent, and frequently changing in this man
ner several times during the day. The
same conduct was pursued in the purchase
Of State, City, and County Scrip, particu'
larly for the last six months. He was in
the habit, also, Of receiving Minnesota cur
rency from merchants, and paying in East
ern currency or drafts for the use of tor
rather the handling Of it-for it is not sup
posed that he made any use of it, other than,
after he had kept it few days, to purchase
the drafts or Eastern currency.
MoNoMAN1A.
The most charitable cause assigned for
what would otherwise be most inexplicable
in the conduct of Gray, is that he was a
monomaniac in bis passion for the mere
handling of money, and that this passion
far exceeded that of avarice. We were
disposed to adopt this theory at first, but
evidence is constantly accommodating that all
his supposed eccentricities in regard to
money operations, were deliberate efforts to
acquire the confidence Of the community in
his financial soundness, that be might carry
on magnificent scheme Of villainy more
successfully, and we are sustained in this
opinion by the testimony of those who have
had the best opportunities of judging of
Gray's conduct.
GRAY's EFFECTS.
The Judge of Probate has appointed Mr..
Simonton and Mr.. Ingalls, as the admins
traitors of the estate of the deceased. The
creditors and the holders of the forged pa
per have chosen w. B. Gere, J. F. Grindall
and Mr.. Holland as committee to act in
conjunction with the administrators in the
investigation Of Mr.. Grays affairs. The
victims are so numerous, and constantly in
creasing in number, and there is such an in
tense anxiety to learn the whole extent of
the villanies perpetrated, that the little brick
Office occupied by Gray was thronged, in.
side and out, during the whole of yesterday.
THE BODY
Was searched for yesterday and Sunday.
Some five or six boats were out on the RI
yer, and the river was dragged from Day
tons Bluff to the bridge, but without sue
cess. It is said that Gray had some ten or
twelve pounds of gold upon his person, at
the time he jumped from the bridge, and has
probably not foated down a long distance.
in Gray's Office was opened Monday evening
in the presence of anxious creditors, but no
money was found, or anything else of much
value.