The examiner., 1886-08-21
THE MISSING TREASURER.
BELIEF THAT HE HAS COM
MITTED SUICIDE.

HIS Team Found Tied Near O. Deep
Pond---Searchingf for His Body---
Many Expensive Hobbies.
BOSTON, August 1s.-The defalcation of
William Gray, Jr., is absorbing the at
tention of everybody in business circles.
Many begin to believe he has committed
suicide. There are some facts which
suggest this theory. There is nothing to
indicate that he carried away with him
any considerable portion of his plunder.
Everything tends to show that the en-
bezzled funds were lost months ago in
speculation. 1t is known that he left on
board his yacht, when he left Monday
morning. his watch and his ready money.
After his flying visit to his home yester-
day morning, he drove off in buggy with
one OF his fast horses. saying he would
return at z. M
The Boston police received information
late last night that Mr.. Gray's team had
been found tied to tree in the woods at
the foot of Blue Hill, in Canton. twelve
miles from this city. There was no trace
of its owner, and 1t is believed that he has
drowned himself in pond near by. The
spot is four miles from any railroad, SO it
is not believed that he was seeking escape
by rail. Search will be made for the body
to day.
Regarding the amount of his defalca-
tion it is still impossible to give exact fig
ures. The only authoritative figures
mentioned are contained in a statement
made by the Hon. Robert M. Morse, couh-
sci for the Indian Orchard Mills He
estimates the deficiency in the accounts
of the treasurer of that corporation at
more than S5OO,oe There is good rea-
son for believing that the shortage in the
Atlantic Mill will be as great. Attempts
to obtain information at the offices of the
involved corporations failed. "You will
find it easier to drill hole in that
granite wall than to get anything from
those men," was the remark of a man at
the foot of the elevator at 81 Milk street.
At the office of Mr.. William Hooper, who
takes Gray's place as treasurer of the
Atlantic Mills, the reporter was told:
"Mr. Hooper has refused to see his own
brother just now, and am sure he won't
see any newspaper man"
The lawyer now said: al am counsel
for the Indian Orchard Mills, and can say
that they are solvent, and that there will
be no stoppage of the works. We are en-
tirely in the dark as to Mr.. Gray's where
abouts. Officers are hunting for him in
every direction. l should not be at all
snrpised to learn that he is not alive.''
Mr.. Gray has for many years been
he began fitting up the house in which
his family now resides. For two years
he had nearly 200 men at work fitting
up this place. He has hothouses, fruit
and every accompaniment to fine resi-
dence. The expense was very great. His
next hobby was Horticulture, and he raised
some of the finest Towering plants in this
part of the country. Two or three years
later he became interested in hens. with
mi 0yfr hnd
breed of fowl 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
prevailed for two or three years. and then
he went into yachts, and from yachts
into railroad stocks.
The result of his experience with stocks
was disastrous. He was carrying, it Is
said, 10000 shares of New York and New
England, and the break in the price of
that stock in the past two or three days is
probably caused by throwing the block on
the market.
The handsome cutter Huron, The yacht
that Mr.. Gray has made famous by de-
signing himself and then altering until
he brought her into the first rank of
yachts of her length in this country, is
still off Rowe's wharf. Her sails are
slowed, and everything aboard looks
shipshape as If her owner was expected
momentarily.
LATER-The belief that Gray had com
mitted suicide has been confirmed by the
finding of his body at Bluehill. He had
shot himself.
Agent Goodwin, of the Indian Orchard
Mills, will post orders to-day for the con-
Germ to shut down as soon as the stock has
run out, to remain closed until further
notice. All hands desiring to fiud work
elsewhere will be paid at once. The agent
declines to express any opinion as to
whether the company will start the mill
again.