Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-18
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GRAY STILL MISSING. The Tale Of An Extrava-
 gant Life. SQUIRE WILL BE REMOVED. Indicted Again With Con- tractor Flynn. RUSSIA MUST MAKE ANSWER. A Woman PrOspering On
 The Boycott.
NO NEWS YET OF GRAY.

NO NEWS YET OF GRAY. | Growing Belief That He Has End- ed His Life-Expensfve Hobbies That Led Him Down 10 Disgrace.
 BOSTON, Aug. 17.-Beyond the fact that William Gray, jr., has left the city nothing l is known of his whereabouts. The police are 1 acting upon the suspicion that he has fled to Canada and are covering all approaches there to. They hope to trace him by means of his horse and buggy and desire stablemen to look out for bay mare with black points weigh ing 1,O50 pounds attached to Goddard bug gy that has been in use two years. Mir. Gray is fifty five years old, has dark moustache tinged with gray, hair streaked with gray, top of head slightly bald and hair brushed so as to cover the badness. MT. Grays neck and hands are much sunburned. This morning an attachment was placed on the cutter Hu- ron, which lies at Central wharf, to guard against MT. Grays escape in that direction. The watch at his house is still continued. The officers say that he has gone empty handed. The money which he took has been spent speculating and yachting. MT. Gun ningham, who was alone with MT. Gray on his yacht Sunday, says that he had no sus picion of the trouble hanging over his head. MT. Gray was as social and hospitable as has been his wont. There was nothing in word or look to show that he had been called to account by the directors of the corporations of which he was treasurer. MT. Gray is as- sessed for $152, $50 real and $15, ,OO0 personal estate. The assessors have notice from the Manufacturers Fire and Marine Insurance company that it holds mortgage of $31 ,000 upon the real estate and it has been a con- mon remark among people who within if teen years have come to enquire as to the assessed value of MT. Grays real estate that
 they were surprised at the amount, as it was
 mortgaged for twice that sum.
 A warrant has been issued charging Mir. Gray with embedding funds of the two
 mils From gentleman intimately con-
 nected with the two corporations it was learned that the directors fear that matters
 are more serious than was at first thought.
 It is generally conceded that the amount em-
 bezzled approximates $500, 900 and it is fear
 ed from the successful way in which the
 books were manipulated that the grave
 charge of forgery may have to be entered
 against the missing man. Gray's extrava- gances have been entirely in the direction of stock gambling and the qualification of pe- culiar hobbies. About twenty years ago he
 began fitting up the magnificent stone mansion in which his family now reside and for nearly two years he had nearly two hundred men at work there. He had hothouses, fruit and every accompaniment to a fine residence. The expense attending this very great. He next turned to Horticulture and raised some of the finest Towering plants in this section of the country. Two or three years later MT. Gray became interested in hens and Il. | He had every species of hen known. This venture cost him many thousands of dollars. His next hobby was horses and carriages. He bought eight or ten fine horses and pur- chased every kind of carriage which had been built up to that time. This hobby pre- vailed for two three years and then he went into yachts and from yachts to railroad stocks. Stocks had taken their place in his career even in early years, but they never became hobby till within five or six years
 The result of his experience with stocks seems to have been disastrous.
 The Gray dedication is the sixth which has occurred in Boston this year. The recorG is as follows: June 8, embezzlement of $3,- 900 by Thomas Knight; July 12, embezzle- ment of $1 300 by Augustus O. Brewster, 8 we'll known Boston lawyer; July 20, embez- clement of SIS, ,560 by Mrs. Marcella Cooper,
 "Queen of the Gypsies, , from Mrs. Nannette Rink of Roxbury; July 23, misappropriation of $4OO, 900 by Samuel G. Smelling, treasurer of the Lowell Bleachery company; August ?,
 embezzlement of $125, ,000 by James A. L.
 Whittier from Mrs. Harriet D. Reid of Bos- ton. These amounts added to that which
 Treasurer Gray is supposed to be guilty of
 misusing will make a total for the year so far of $1 ,043, 460.
 The business record of Hon. Wm. Gray,
 ST., is especially honorable. He was for sev-
 eral years treasurer of mill corporations and
 was one of the prominent managers in get
 ting up great pool auction sale of goods in
 Boston over twenty-three years ago. He
 made the opening address to the merchants
 and business men from all sections of the
 country. The sales netted over $3, GOO, ,000
 The Atlantic and the Indian Orchard mills
 have each placed attachments on Gray's
 property for $500, ,000. Lawyer R. M. Morse,
 jr., said to-day that he should not be sur
 prised to learn that Gray is not alive
 Gray's bondsmen are William Gray, ST.,
 his uncle, $2O,00O, and Edward Cunning
 ham, $5, GOO. They are thoroughly good.
 Gray when accused by the directors made an
 engagement to meet them Monday, but fail
 ed to keep it. It is said that the directors
 say that even if the $500, COG is all gone, the
 Atlantic mills will be in no way affected.
 The formal statement will not be made until
 after the completion of the investigation of the accounts. Meanwhile business is going on as usual.
 The suicide theory in connection with Gray's disappearance is gaining ground. A farmer in Canton yesterday found the horse and carriage which took Gray to the city tied to tree on a lonely road near Houghton's Pond. Parties are searching the woods for the body.