The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-04
FRIDAY. AUGUST. q 1866.
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-. The telegraph has announced the fact
| thas A. P. Stone, Esq, Of Columbus,
formerly State Treasurer and, at the time of
his death, Collector. of internal Revenue
! for the Seventh District, died suddenly on
Wednesday morning. M. Stone was
born IN Worthington, Mass on the 28.h
Of june sisl8.s Intbe year 1882, he came
to C0uub1s, and engaged in business. He
took prominent part in politics, espousing
with. .vigof the principles ef the Democrat.
zie party, and was in 1874 elected by that
party to Congreasi from the Franklin Dis
trict, TO AII a vacancy. When the Rspub-
lcan party was formed he became an active
member of it. Iu,1s57, when the defalea-
tionin the Ohio Treasury was discovered,
he was selected by Governor Chase as the
proper successor 10 thedefaultiDg official,
and discharged kis difficult and delicate du-
ties with such success snd fidelity that he
was twice reelected. In 1861 he was sp-
pointed Revenue Collector of the Seventh
District, by AfE. Chase, then Secretary of
4 n ~.
the Treasury. BE was an active member
of the Second Presbyterian Church Of
Columbus, BY which organization his loss
will be deeply felt, He leaves wife and
four children. i-rg1E
os His death was sudden and preceded by
circumstances which rendar Il even mys-
FERROUS. In regard to them the State
..JoiiyEidI ssyH; I'D, '
Upon careful inquiry We have sscer-
rtaiaedl that on Tuesday afternoon, Mr..
Stone walked from the city to Green Lawn
Cemetery, and thot he was seen about two
o'clock lying on the grave of-one of his
children whose remains were buried there
near those of family connections. Mr.. !
Biddle, the, Sexton, conversed with him,
and Mr.. Stone left the cemetery intending,
as he stated, to go to the house Of Job T.
Rehick, which is in that vicinity. 4
After going 5 short distance he returned
and again npFostrsted1 himself upon the
grave, Mr.. Biddle watched him for sshort
time, and then went TO him and endesvored
70 get him TO, return to the city. Mr.. Stone
consented and walked down the road some
distance, but turned, entered . field, and i
made his way back to the cemetery. Mr.. /
Bi i1dle7 believing that Mr.. Stone was labor
ing under temporary alteration of mind.
then cams to the city to inform his friends /
of his condition. He notified members
of the family with whom he was SC
qusinted, and his Eon-in-law, Captain Van
Deehn, with 3 friend, went in carriage to
the Cemetery. They reached it between nine
and ten o'clock at night. Mr.. Stone was
found lying upon the grave of his child, in |
an almost iRsensible condition. He wss
aroused and brought to the city. He was |
Quiet, and after he had ridden a little
while, apparently rational When he
reached home he talked few minutes with |
his son in.lsw, and retired to bed about
eleven o'clock, in the room ne wss accus- !
toned to occupy. On Wednesday morning |
Mr. Stone was called to breakfast at the usu-
81 he1r, but did not rise. He was called a |
second time by his little son. who said he |
had walked his father, yet he did not sp-
pear in the breakfast room, and his wife |
went to call him She found him in con-
difi6n which greatly alarmed her, and I'M |
sent for q physician and for
fsispds-z Before. .eithsr arrived Mr.. Stone
The circumstances connected with the I
death Of Mr.. Stone naturally give rise to
various rumors Many upon our streets |
sre dnfo1pded, and grossly uUjust !; but it
is<frue TO truth to say that, in all proba-
biiity, while lsboring under daap dapres-
sIoh of spirits, Mr.. Stone destroyed his own
life HIS business affairs are not in such q
ceRdition as his friends could wish, but IN
til full and fair investigation can be had,
We withheld from publication particular