Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-12-11
INSURED SUICIDES.
REMARKABLE CASES RECALLED.
STORIES WHICH THE CASE OF WALTON
DWIGHT OF BINGHAMT0N, SUGGESTS
THE BARON VINO SMOKED
HIMSELF TO DEATH.

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wife the insurance pollcies, aud nc.
uuainted her for the first time with the
loss Of hls fortune. The insurance com
mnies refused TO meet the claims des
ignatcd in the policies upon the ground
that Baron Bella had procured the m
surunce with lheintent on ofdtliberate
suicide. They searched Tor his place
ofretreat TO substan,iate such theory
After prolonged search il was asccr.
tuined that in January. 1874 ten
months before his death, he had rented
for one year a small apa,tment in n
dirty. unireauented street. The room
was opened. A sofa a table. two
chairs and two chests constituted the
mrniture One of the chests contain
ed A few artic es of clothing and a
dozen long tobacco pipes. In the other
were about two hundred cigars, worth
about two kreutzers each, aud half
mound of smoking tobacco. From the
wrappers found in the chest, il was
estimated that $500 OF these two cent
cigars and about hundred pounds OF
smoking tobacco had been consumed
within ten months. Chemical and
medical examinations We're made by
both parties, and the absorption OF
poisonous quantities Of nicotine intn
!, the system by sucking was finally as
signed as the cause of death. laa
n The body OF james q, Wallis, OF
; johnson county, Mo-, was discovered
u by his daughter at the roadside neai
his residence, at about D ?. m. on Sep
tember 23, 1873. Wallis had leIt
; home at about o'clock, avowedly t.
Iay one Quick, ncighbor, a bill OF
$50. AIS 5oelock the daughter saw
the horse upon which he had iidder
re out running up the road with al
empty saddle. She mounted the AMI
y mai and rode back A short distanc,
down the road she found an evelop'
addressed TO her father, aud further
on other papers aud bis pocket-bool
were found. Her fathers body lay n
the edge OF n growth OF woods which
the highway ntersccted. Death bad
7, been caused by gun'shot wound, ex
tending through both lungs and pene
traiing the heart, and which has beer