Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-01
CITY POINTS BODY.
PROBABLY THAT OF GEORGE c. Scar
ING, LATE OF NEW YORK.
Found BADLY Torn and Disngured-Ths
skull supposed to Have been
Pierced bv n Ballet.

Point on Thursday last, VINO was supposcu
10 have committed suicide, has already ap-
peared in the DESPATCH. The New York
World of Sunday says there is little doubt
now that the body found in City Point is
that of George O. Soaring. A late dispatch
sent TO the World last night from City Point
IN response 10 an inquiry said;
1.-THE body found is very badly torn and
disfgured. The flesh Is completely, torn
| from the head aud face by dogs and buz-
Yards. The skull is supposed 10 have been
penetrated through and through by 49,
| calibre bullet. The body Is not supposed
10 have been more than SIX weeks dead.
| The front teeth are filed with gold. Inc
dead man wore blue coat and vest. q
light derby hat, striped trousers, mixed
| gray or dark overcOat, and button snoes,
| which we're abont No. In size"
| That was sufficient. with other facts
which the Word secured. 20 prove beyond
perad venture that the body found in VIZ
glnia was Searling's. The question now H..
| Was he murdered or did he 90 deliberately
| into that remote place 70 put an end to his
own life ?
George C. Soaring was native of Oyster
Bay. but came at very early age 70 New
| York. where he worked for Acker. Neral
a Condit. in their Chambers-Street store
and subsequently took q position as night
at the Hotel Royal, which was recently
burned Everywhere Soaring made friends.
| But ne had III health. He was tall. but
very slender, and some Of his forbears bad
died from consumption. The knowledge
of this and also that there was mental
disorder presumably inherent in him made
Soaring morbid aud respondent.
Two years ago he took severe cold
while duck-shOoting, and could not shake
| il off. lie took TO cigarette-smoking TO
| ease the pain IN his throat. The habit
crew on him. and tho pain in his lungs did
not diminish. A Whit or two of cigar
cite would relieve it for little while.
| That was all.
ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED.
Meantime he was engaged 10 be married
| 10 his second cousin Miss Lizzie Weeks,
| of No. los west Ihrty-tourth street. He
crew bluer and bluer and told Miss Weeks
so. By and by he went to Oyster Bay 70
see If ne cOuid pick up little strength. IL
was no 90, though. One day while he was
| there he told his aunt that If he thought
| there was any incurable disease IN him he
would put bullet through his brain. One
| day there was an explosion in the neigh
| borhood and Searings aunt ran TO his
room. thinking he had shot himself
Why no said, laughing. you didn
| think meant what / said. did your"
Shortly after that he went up into the
| Catskii mountains, III Duchess county,
still ia quest cf health. IL was late IN Sep
| tenber last when he returned 20 New
| York. Miss Weeks was then on her vaca-
ton IN New Haven. Soaring secured a po-
stion with the Cincinnati Preserving Com
pany. out couldn't take 1t beoauss he was
seized with severe hemorrhages Miss
! Weeks hurried TO his eide.
Along in the latter part of October Scar
| ing said he had been engaged TO go 10 81.
| Augustine. Fla. to work for Mr. Lewis.
who had lust built splendid hotel, the
| Magnolia. there There We're Ave others,
| he said. gong with him. Miss Weeks was
| invited 70 dine OF the Gedney House with
Soaring and Mr. Lewis. The dinner didn
| come OF. though, and it has been learned
| since that Mr.. LOWS wasn't registered
| there. as Soaring said he was.
There is a Magnolia in st. Augustine and
| II is in an old house. Soaring made con-
siderable preparations TO go South, though
| he was still down-hearted about his health.
WHO WAS THIS MAN?
The man Lewis seems to have been
| MYTHICAL in some respects. But there wac
| a man-nobody knows who he was-who
| was about with Soaring great deal. lie
was tall and thin. Last October, on the
| nth. Soaring left town with him, saying
| that he was going to Florida. lie had $50
| in money On the 10Th he wrote TO Miss
Weeks from Richmond, Va. and that was
! the last ever heard of George Soaring.
Searing's uncle became anxious when at
| the end of October he had received no
| word of his nephews arrival at st. Angus.
| tine, and found that no man named Lewis
| was connected with the Magnolia Hotel.
Detectives were set at work. They found
| that in Richmond Scoring had gone
| through the bar-room with man who re-
sembled him so much that men in the bar.
room made bet as to whether they were
| brothers OF not. They were there on the
morning Soaring wrote to Miss Weeks.
| That was all.
A World reporter tried, upon receipt Of
| the dispatch from City Point, 10 find Miss
| Weeks in Thirty-fourth street at hor
| lodgings. She was. IL was stated. visiting
| at Oyster Bay with her aunt. Mrs. Walker.
| There the reporter found her yesterday.
| Miss Weeks is pale and thin and worried.
| Mr.. Soaring left all his belongings with
| me.n she SAID. 81 was surprised after.
| wards when looked into his trunks which
| | have now on storage, TO see that he had
taken nothing with him. Even he
| travelling bag was left behind. His tooth
| brush and all his toilet articles and linen
| were there, too. l didn't examine the
| trunks until we became worried because
he didn't write"
How was he dressed when he went
awayyn
well. be wore the coat and vest Of q
| blue SUIT Of which be used TO be very
| proud. The blue trousers he left in bis
| trunk"
| This. il will be noticed. tallies with the
| description telegraphed from City Point
| Miss Weeks said too. that the collars worn
| by Mr.. Soaring were of the standing va
rlety, with rundown corners. She didn't
know exactly what the size OF his collar
| was but she knew il was small. He wa:
extremely slender. anyway. though tall
and his neck was excessively small.
IDENTIFIED.
The collar of the man whose body was
| found at CITY Point was No. IL, the dis
patch said, and the iaundry-mark Oh /,
was 285.
| "Where did Mr.. Soaring have his
| laundry-work donel" asked the reporter.
1T was in a place in Thirty eighth OF
| Thirty-ninth street, just west of Sixth
avenue" Miss Weeks replied. What the
mark on it was l do not remember, but
| the laundry is on the north side OF the
street, and O woman keeps II"
Miss Weeks said she thought there was Q
| faint of mental unsoundness IN the family
L =
| spondency of Mr.. Soaring.
| None Of us have doubted very much
she SAID, that he has made away with
| himself"
Mss Weeks said she had left New York
| 10 get away from people who wanted &c
ask questions.
After hearing Miss Weeks's story Their,
were but two things to be do1e-get proof
of the insanity IN the family and learn II
Searing's laundry work at the laundry N
| Thirty-ninth street was the same as that
on the collar Of the dead man in City
Point, Va. Both were easily done.
| The grandmother of Soaring IS good
| looking, prim little old lady, who lives in
cosy house IN Oyster Bay. and whose
| talk is absolutely unintelligible. She
wanders sadly. Not even her children
and she has many of them-can under
stand her. The Word reporter tried e
| ask her about her missing grandson anc
about Miss Weeks. The old lady answered
with some jargon that conveyed nothing
| But she said good by very pleasantly.
| The laundry IN Thr.y-ninth stree, !sru
by a woman named Osborne. Its number