The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-17
CASHIER G. L. BEARD
He Ends His Financial Troubles
by Shielding.
HIS FRIENDS MUCH SHOCKED
The Failure of the Cheyenne National Bank
the Cause-Effect of the Suspension on
Pocatello Business,

CHEYENNE, Nov. 16.-[Special telegram
to The HERALD. George L. Beard,
cashier of the suspended Cheyenne
National bank, has given the affair
frightfully tragic feature by suiciding. He
sent bullet into his brain at about
o'clock this morning. The suicide occurred
in the mans room in the Kent block across
the street from the institution he had
served so faithfully and so ably. Examiner
Griffith came yesterday and he and the
cashier and bank attorney were in confer
ence the greater part of the day. During
their intercourse Beard seemed moody.
He asked advice as to the de-
NAL of the rumors that ne had
favored friends among his depositors. The
advice was to let the stories go. Once last
evening he spoke of going TO jail and said
he would accept his punishment unt1inch-
ingly if it was inflicted. He seemed SER
ious in this, and when words of cheer were
spoken said a mans reputation was MS
dearest possession and he had been
wrecked by being forced on the Judgment
of those above him and standing as tar
get for consequences that he could anticl-
pate but could not resist. Every effort to
chase worry from him was futile, though
he said his conscience was clear and while
impoverished he knew he could again gain
a store of money.
Beard was at the club from 9 to 1920
o'clock, and in lively company, who APP
peared to set his trouble aside for the
time, but it is recalled that every five min
utes a strange expression of commingled
pain and regret would fit over his pale
features, agonizing him for the instant.
He left in the midst of a general converse
ton, breaking away abruptly. The attor-
90
o'clock this morning, when the latter was
10 execute assignment papers and
the investigation was to begin. c..
c. Campbell, the lawyer, called at Beard S
room twice; the second time looking over
the trsnsom and noticing the cashiers
clothes on a chair, the door was forced.
Beard was in bed in his nightgown. The
wound was behind the right ear, shatterine
the skull and lodging inside In the right
hand the contracted muscles tightly held &
heavy siX-shooter. Everything about wa.
in order. There was not a note.
Beard was %. He came here seven years
ago, and after year with Morton E. Post
banker, who subsequently failed, ht
went to the Cheyenne National will
John w. Collins. No man has stooC
better in the community than Beard. The
fact that others might suffer by having
trusted him made him insane. Last Fri,
day, the day the house closed, Beard, after
saying his money, $4,000, should go int
the assets, asked Campbell: "What NOR,
can do? What should have done? VIVA
could l do?'
George answered the lawyer, s'yol
are not in bad shape. There was remed,
for you month ago. You could have re
signed"
81 offered my resignation twice and j
was fatty refused. L could not walk out @
here forsaking my friends"
There are now beginning to be fear
about the condition Of the bank which ap
pears, however, to be solvent. The suic d
has shocked every body. There are man
fearful faces for the earnest, bright youn
man always good natured was greatly ad
mired ana had many close friends.