Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-19
FROM ALL QUARTERS. GRAY TAKES HIS LIFE. His Body Found In The
 Woods. THE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE, Great Enthusiasm Shown
 At Chicago. 4 NARROW ESCAPE FOR BLAINE. Desperate Work with A
 POcketknife.
4 NARROW ESCAPE FOR BLAINE.
DEAD IN HIS YACHTING SUIT.

POcketknife.
 DEAD IN HIS YACHTING SUIT.
 William Gray,s Body Found Where
 He Ended His Life By Ills own
 Hand.
 BosroN, Aug 1S-At daylight this morn ing the searchers began for traces of William
 Gray, jr., the missing treasurer, the start be- l ing made from the spot where his team was found yesterday. About thirty men, inculd- l ing reporters and officers, were of the party. I For many hours the quest was unsuccessful, but at Ii 15 a. m. one of the detectives who had wandered from the crowd called by his | shouts his companions to him. There fay l the body of William Gray, jr., on high rock beneath clump of pine trees near the | top of Blue Hill mountain in Milton. A bull let was in his heart and by his side was the revolver with which he had ended his exist l ence. When found his face showed no traces of struggle. His body lay upon the ! back in natural position. The left arm I and both legs were extended and the Tight arm lay across his breast with the | hand doubled beneath the forearm. The \ coat and vest were open. A close inspection | revealed blood upon the shirt over the heart, | but the marks had been nearly effaced by rain MT. Gray had shot himself through ! the heart, and had then convulsively extend | ed his right arm to it's full length. The revolver had dropped from the nerveless ! hand, and then the muscles of the right arm had contracted until the hand was doubled | upon his breast The body was clad in | blue yachting suit, slight striped stockings ! and low shoes. His straw hat was beneath his head, the weight of the body forcing it over his forehead. The eyes were open and the lips were slightly parted. He seemed to be asleep.
 After the finding of the body of Gray Detective Wood remained in charge of it pending the arrival of the medical examiner. The body for legal reasons was left as found, but the officer reverently covered the face to preserve it from the beating rays of the sun. The reporters made haste to town to spread the news of the sad tragedy and the officer remained a couple of hours with the body, which was examined shortly after 1 o'clock by Medical Examiner Sturtevant The left arm was stretched by the side and the right drawn toward the shoulder with the hand inward The bloodstained shirt with it's blackened hole in the left breast showed the point at which the bullet had entered. The coat and vest were uninjured, having been thrown open when the muzzle was placed against the breast. The hole made by the
 
 half inches below and to the left of the left nipple the bullet passing between the sixth and seventh ribs and penetrating the heart Dr. Sturtevant decided that death was not instantaneous but was probably so nearly so as to prevent any violent struggle. The shirts were, however, torn slightly around the bullet hole, caused undoubtedly by 8 convulsiye grasp of the hand for the wounded part at the moment of death. A search. of the pocket revealed S2 56 a pencil and knife and white hand kerchief and pair of kid gloves with half dozen cartridges of large.calibrer than those required for the pistol from which the shot was fired, and probably belonging to large revolver recently given MT. Cunningham by the deceased. The absence of all valuables confirmed Detective Woods statement that Gray left his watch and pocketbook at home and showed why the detective was so certain before the finding of the body that suicide was intended and why he was so earnest in pressing the search This examination was deemed sufficient and the examiner after taking the names of several as witnesses to the facts as developed by him decided that an autopsy was unnecessary. The body was then carefully placed on blankets spread over a short ladder that had been taken from a farm house and was borne by willing hands down the steep incline that lead to the spot and through the woods by the path along which the deceased had walked to his death. When the road was reached the body was placed beneath the same tree to which the horse had been fastened when his owner started on his last walk and here the arrival of the undertaken was awaited. This after noon the body was given into the charge of the family.
 A comparison of the time when MT. Gray was last seen and the time when the buggy was first seen standing by the road shows that the fatal act was committed about noon on Monday. He left at 10 o'clock on the forenoon of that day and soon after 12 the team was seen by farm hand in the spot where found. This circumstance the man forgot to mention until others spoke of the matter, for team standing in the woods is considered so common thing as to excite no remark, it being supposed the parties were upon the hill and would soon return. Mr. Gray must have driven directly from his home to the mountain, occupying prob ably but little over an hour in so doing, chosen the spot to tie his horse and then walked deliberately up the path to the spot where he fired the fatal shot. That he was determined to commit suicide is shown by such direct driving and by the fact of his leaving his valuables at home, and it is probable the place was deliberately chosen for he was famil- jar with the mountain, and many of those living near by remembered having seen them there. The fact of his leaving his valuables at home as soon as it was known by the fam fly prepared them for the idea of suicide, and it was with a full share in their convictions that Detective Wood prosecuted the search for the body It would not have taken MT. Gray twenty minutes to have walked from the road to the rock and it is probable that with his mind made up the shot was not long deferred. MT. Cunningham, MT. Gray's brother-in-law, was in the city eagerly en- gagged in looking up records and data touch ing the condition of his mothers properly, oh had oh Ia 1aor nf the finding of the body and the circum- stances shortly before one o'clock and almost broke completely down. He was not surprised to learn of the suicide, for he had prepared himself for that for the past few days, during which the members of the family have undergone such a terrible strain. He gave orders to an undertaken to take charge of the dead man and without delay proceeded to the home of his sister, Mrs. Gray.
 The rumor was current this morning that the firm of White, Payson & Co.,, dry goods commission agents, 43 Avon Place and 30 Bedford street, had failed, in consequence of the defalcations. MT. Payson stated that there was no truth in the rumor- MT. Payson said his father was a stockholder In the Indian Orchard mills and would lose of course, but that the firm was only the selling Samuel R. Payson, who had endorsed Gray's paper, assigned day to Sam uel Johnson. Payson is president of the City bank and director in the Indian Orchard and Atlantic mills. He is the owner of the Cushing estate in Watertown. The effect of the assignment in the cotton trade is very marked and 8 prominent fnancier remarked after learning of Payson's assign ment that it will not require many more h- nancial shocks to create small panic in Boston It is stated that the assignment now made public has been contemplated since Grays disappearance, but has been withheld as long as it was safe so. Some say MT. Pay sons' object was simply to liquidate. Ru- mors are current that Gray he'd forged Pay son's signature on paper which involved the latter in obligations to 8 large sum- This statement cannot be verified. It is stated further that mill paper will meet with great difficulty in finding takers at the banks and other ioaning institutions.
 Suing to Recover Blood Money. BOSTON, AUG. 19.-John Donahue, alias John Bull, the man whom Mrs. Anna Cool | idge employed to murder the Mellon woman of Baltimore, and informed the police, has