Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-09
SOME STARTLING RUMoHs.

A Sensational Story About Hubert
o. Thompson's Death.
Though there were comparatively few
active politicians in the city Thursday
evening, says the New York Times, those
who haunted hotel corridors had many
strange rumOrs to hear and talk about.
There was story that as retaliatory
measure charges had been preferred by
Commissioner Squire's counsel and
friends against Mayor Grace to Gov.
Hill; that Messrs. Squire and Maurice
b. Flynn had been arrested on bench
warrants, and, most startling of all. that
the late Hubert o. Thompson had died a
suicides death. 1t was the latter
| rumOr that was most talked about, not
only because it was earliest In circula-
ton, but because his sudden death gave
a color of something akin to probability
to it. The story first gained circulation
Yesterday afternoon, and DR.. Nagle, AT the
Health Department, was one OF the first
to be surprised at it by inquiries as to its
truth. He knew nothing about it, OF
course, accepting with others the dag
! nOsis of DR.. Roberts, Mr.. Thompson's
physician and friend, who was in
mis- rooms at the time of his death,
that apoplexy was the cause OF
death, Within the week ply
blcIdnB nave mHbJ6TlOQStY Abkeu one
another or inquired OF trusted friends il
they knew the cause of Mr.. ThOmpson's
death, This gave rise to a color of uoubt
as to the originally reported cause of
death, because the question was asked
with that peculiar tone OF voice which in
dictated 81 have my theory, and it does
not agree with that generally accepted"
Then came the rumOr, which grew to De
the generally accepted one, that an over
Ap,a Of nhl oss f6hr, 3alI
tentionally taken, was the cause OF death.
This his attendants and intimate friends
denied most emphatically.
Such as held TO the suicide theory ar
gued that MIR. Thompson had been IN Ill
health for some time; that he was de-
pressed mentally because OF financial en-
| barrassments. and that he was frightened
at the impending disclosures in the
Squire-Flynn deal He had been both
physically and mentally sufferer for two
days preceding his death, as is well
known, and all these circumstances, so
argued thOse who feast well knew the
| light-heafted political leader, Induced
him to put an endto suffering mental and
! physical. h'5C .A1 s3'
On the other hand, as showing the alb
surdty Of the Suicide theory, it MAY be
stated as is Known to a few Of his most
| intimate frIend8, that Mr.. THOMPSON had
a narrow esq abesfr6m death in JuHb lasf.
For nearly tlr9e hours be lay in Alliance
I'll then and ssy 70 y sists St3!t
after long att fatigping work, hfoqgpt
him back to, life, then. That trapSe-like
condition was the immediate Cause for
the trip to European watering PLACES, he
was to haze begin Oh the week Of his
death. TWAS also in all probability the
forerunner Of the attack which fnslly re-
Rultad in hia deatb +tt'i'Su' = .''t
AS the grand jury has not Investigated
the charges against Squire and Flynn, the
story of their. arrest was of course alb
surd, and almost equally so, 1t was gem
orally believed, was the story that charges
were to be preferred against the Mayor
by a combination of Tammany Han,
Squire and Aqueduct Commission men.