Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-07-01
FULL PARTICULARS.
Mis Honor INDICATED.
Is ROBBED BY HIS PARTNER. AND
DRIVEN TO- SUICIDE BY THE
HARSH AND CRUEL TREAT
MENT OF HIS BOSTON
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= agreed to nut inethe sum of ten THOUSAND
3 pounds, but never did put in dollar
0 but drew out Instead, the Gum of MINI
0 thousand pounds; that when BeldiDe
left London be took the sum of twenty
: two thousand dollars and gave it in trus
to friend to he applied in settlement o.
his debts in London, &c, to the best pos
sible advantage, while he should come tt
: America to see what could be done here
Paper was maturing which they had moi
, the means to meet That correspond
ent ia New York had sent to Beldipg
twenty thousand dollars In bonds which
would have been ample to relieve his
present embarrassment, but which Bcld-
ing did not know had been RENTED, when
I be left That friends in New York would
have bailed him to the amount of mil
lion of dollars, had they been informed
Of his circumstances, but he did not ask
any one to become his bail, and the first
intimation that most of his friends in
New York had of his arrival aud impris-
onmeDt was OIL Sunday morning, after
his death was announced His Boston
creditors took the little money he had on
bis person, about three hundred dollars
his watch, "a valuable one. and pres
ent) and his clothes and the same are
now in the hands of the General Admin
istrator in New York city Ills body
vas em balmed in New York and was
brought as far as Stowe. and entombed,
where it wall remain until his wife ar
rives from London.
From the N. Y, Herald, 22nd.
Early yesterday Sunday morning
prisoner named George W. Beldiug,
late of the firm Of Bedding, Keith & Co,
BANKERS, so Lombard street London, Eng.
land, committed suicide bv the cutting of
his tdroat. On the 10Th of the present
month the sheriff arrested Bedding upon
civil process at the 5Qint suits of Messrs
z A. Ames 81 CO of Boston, and Henry
thornton, and he being unable to give
the required &ail for his appearance in
the suu Of $4,000 was committed to
jaa. BY cSnseut, The jailer allowed him
the use of small room adjoining the
keepers office. which room is usually oc-
cupied 10y one of the assistants and is
separate and distinct from the quarters
OF the other prisoners Since his arrest
Bedding had been very Respondent, but
ING indications had transpired to convey
the idea that he at any time eOntemplat
ed self destruction, until as the night
Waterman was making his Hnal tour
preparatory to calling his relief on sun
day morning, about quarter before six
o'clock, be found the body of Bedding.
cold and stark covered with gore, lying
in the washroom adjoining the room
occupied by 6elding. An alarm was in
stantly giyeo,bat too late to be of service,
for life was already extinct and must
have been so for some time; JUDGED the
cut was of such nature that death must
D We bten instantaneous. The watchman
stares that his last round on the
lower floor previous to the discovery
must have been about 4 IL c'cock !;
that he visited the Mushroom then aud
found everything still aud all right
From the appearance of the room of the
deceased and the position in which the
body was fouhd he must have risen from
his bed, and with Gully his night shirt
upon him, proceeded to the bath or wash
room. and. standing directly in front Of
the looking glass, gave himself fatal
cut with razor, which put an eudto his
earthly existence, falling immediately to
the floor. as the basin beneath the glass
was covered completely with blood. and
deceased when first discovered was lying
upon bis back. with bis feet at the base
Of the wash basin aud his head towards
the docr--the razor covered with blood
lying at his side.
Bedding was a native Of the United
States. born and brought up in the State
Of Vermont, and having resided there uu
: til about ten years ago, when he emigrat.
: ed to Europe, and about two years ago
esta blished himself in business as a bank
er at so Lombard street. London, Eng
land-his firm having been we'll known
10 the American travelling public as the
American Banking House Of Bedding.
Keith u Go. A few mouths ago the firm
1ecJ me embarrassed temporarily. and Mr..
Keith was sent out to this country to en-
deavor TO raise sufficient funds to carry
them through their difficulties, but moi
. being prompt enough in their action Mr
Belding was compelled 10 suspend the
business of the firm and. the main Dor
ton Of their Indebtedness being in this
country, cane over in person to endeavor
to compromise the liabilities Of the frm,
: previously telegraphing some of the cred
! itors OF his intention, who, probably to
folestsll others, Immediately commenced
proceedings, and npon his arrival caused
his arrest aud Imprisonment as aforesaid,
charging him with the intent to deiraud
his creditors No doubt the anticipated
shame and disgrace Of these proceedings
80 influenced his MUD az to cause him
to attempt bis self destruction He leit
behind him no papers or writings show
ing an intent, but in his room was soaad
q rocket Bible. which be had evidently
been reading priar TO retiring for the night
upon one Of the blank leaves OF which
e was written IN the small delicate band Of
. a lady. the Inscription :---. Read this that
We may know how to live. and. having