Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-11-15
SECOND EDITION.
Suic.he OF Thomas B. GrubD.

HIS BODY FOUND HANGING TO A TREE NEAR
MAGNOLIA STATION ON THE P. W. d B. R. R.
From a report in the Baltimore Sun of
yesterday of man having been found
hanging t, tree near Magnolia station on
the P. w. & B. R. X , on Saturday, there
was no retson to doubt that it was Thomas
B. Grub, of Brandywine Hundred, who
has beer missing from his home since
Tuesday he 31st of October. The
FOLLOWING IS THE REPORT
referred 10, in the Sun
"On Saturday afternoon, as a man by the
name Of Powell and another man were out
cunning hey found dead man hanging to
the limb Of white oak tree, near MagnC-
lia Station, on the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and baltimore Railroad, Hartford coun-
ty, Md He WAS suspended by plow line
and his neck was broken, and from every
appearance he had been hanging there two
or three days. A coroners jury being sum-
moned, verdict was rendered that the un-
known deceased came to his death by hang
ing by his own hand. Before hanging, he
had cut sucker from the tree, which was
supposed to have been in his way.
"There was nothing on his person by
MulCu u6 COulQ no ohu hO WR'
supposed to have been Robert Dreamer, an
insane man who worked in furnace. He
was supposed to be between 55 and 60 years
of age, had gray hair and sandy whiskers.
he wore black slouch hat, blue overalls,
dark brown coat and vest, and striped over
shirt $40 in money, husking peg, a
two blaied knife and pocket book were
found upon his person, and memorandum
as follows April 27, to $50 pounds Of
hay from Thomas Grubb, to DIR. Booth, 70
cents pir hundred The body was buried
on Sunday near where it WAS found.
In einversation this morning with &C
quaint hoes Of the deceased, we were in
formedIthat
THE. DESCRIPTION GIVEN CORRESPONDS
exactly with that of Thomas B. Grubb, and
that on the day.he left home he had stopped
at DIR. Booths in the Ninth Ward to collect
the bill for the hay referred to. Itappears
that he then came into town and stopped
at the hardware store of Samuel Hanna q
Go. in the COMMERCIAL building, Fifth and
Market streets, to get some timothy seed,
but that firm not having any, he went on
down to the store of John A. Wilson, al
Front and Market Streets, where he ordered
bushel, and throwing down bag
to put it in, he started out, say
| ing he would soon be in again. This
waa the last heard OF him, except
that he was once seen on the Newport
bridge, until he was found on Saturday last
as already described. Word Of the finding
of his body was sent out to the family this
morning, and immediate measures will b'
taken TO have it exhumed, brought hom'
and inferred in the family burial lot.
Mr.. Grubb was very thrifty and indus
trious fArmer, with everything comfortably
around linn, and though he had just recov
cred FRI severe spell of sickness, h
was unusually well and cheerful when h'
left honf.
It hascE eady been noted that ,daughte
Of the ehfartunate man, Mary Jane Grubt
disappeared from home almost in the sam
manneg on the 23d of September, 1875, an
was Subsequently found drowned in th
Brandywine with her ankles tied togethe
with her shoe strings. She was supposed
have committed suicide.