The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-20
DEATHS DOINas.
Death or BENJAMIN Bates, Esq.s .ssud.
den Death OF q COmp0sitoP-BOy
Killed I'm an Elevator.

Mr.. Benjamin Bates, well-known busi
ness-man OF this city, q member OF the firm
OF Lewis ii. Blair & Co., wholesale notions
and travelling representative OF that house
killed .bimself Sunday morning about {
o'clock, at bis residence, No. 704t east
Leigh street. Saturday he returned to the
city from business trip into North Caro-.
lima. He was thoroughly disheartened,
and in state Of mind and body that re-
quired the advice Of doctor. His physi.
clan was called on and prescribed for him.
and ID was hoped that with q good nights
rest he would be himself again.
Saturday night, however, he was deli
rious. He had auditory delusions, fan.
ewing all the time that he heard various
people calling him. About o'clock SUM-
day morning he said to his wife that he
would 90 to the bathroom and get n
pitcher OF water. He did go after 1t, but
instead Of returning to the chamber went
into the room adjoining, and having taken
his pistol from his valisc, placed IL al MS
breast and sent the ball through the heart.
Death was instantaneous, OF course.
During the war sir. Bates was in charge
OF the Soldiers Home, in the building ut
the southwest corner Of Cary and Seventh
k.Ittls, DOW OtCupltu ~ ilttft Va thS tf5ef
ette factory OF Allen& Ginter. He was first q
sergeant and then lieutenant. His duty
was TO forward TO the armies in the field
those soldiers discharged from the hos
pitals and those found in Richmond over
staying their passes and furloughs, and so
his name became well known among Con-
federates.
The deceased had been married twice.
or the first union there are three children,
and OF the last one. lie was good, kind
husband and father. Nothing but most
fearful unsettling Of the mind for the time
being would have ever led him to the per-
petration OF the act. which makes them be-
reit and afflicted by no common sorrow.
lie was member OF one or two beneficial
orders.
His funeral took place yesterday, and
was attended by many friends, who, highly
estcemIng him rs q man OF honor and pro-
bity, joined his family in the grief which
the occasion evoked.
SUDDEN DEATH OF PRINTER.
Mr.. William J. UzzelI, an employee at the
printing-oftice of. Z. keenan,, died very
suddenly in the building lover Yancey's
book-store) Yesterday morning at Ss O'Clock
MI. I LLcl WIS lOIintliN vi tttlSDhhS ,
and went over there Saturday evening and
returned to his work yesterday morning
Feeling very mwell, he left his case and
sat down and died in about ten minutes-ol
heart-disease, probably.
He leaves wife and one child. He had
the character OF n worthy man, OF very
good habits. and was much esteemed In
Petersburg, where he was well known.
KILLED IN AN ELEVATOR.
James Dodson, a colored bov, aged
twelve, employed at Mr.. Cameron's tobac
co-factory. Cary and Twenty-fourth streets
was caught in the elevator and killed abou
50 o'clock yesterday morning. He was q
/ work on the fourth floor, and bad loaded ;
crate with tobacco, and was to run il up OF
the elevator to the fifth story. Being pu
upon the elevator, the crate nearly filled it
the boy nevertheless jumped upon the Plat
form. and his head was crushed when tn
fifth floor was reached. The aperture wa
not large enough for the crate and the bo,
too. Deceased lived in Rockets near tn
creek.
In each OF these cases the Coroner viewe'
the body and considered an inquest I'm
| necessary.