Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-05
OPIUM CAUSED HIS DEATH.
The Fate Of Walton NJ. Busbee. n North
Carolina Attorney.

Walton NJ. Busbce, the young North
Carolina lawyer who was picked up in
an unconscious condition in front of the
Workingmen's Residential Club and taken
TO the City Hospital early Sunday morn
ng, as published I'm the Baltimore Ameri-
can, died there about 2 o'clock the same
morning. As published. Officer Edring-
ton found the man In n comatose condl-
ton I'm front of the club mentioned, cor
ner of Fayette and Front streets, and,
detecting the smell of liquor. thought him
only drunk. and arrested him on that
charge. When he arrived at the Central
Station, however. II was found mat MS
condition was serious, and he was sent
I'm haste TO the City Hospital, where the
resident physician, DIR. Blake, and his as
sistant physicians worked with the sick
man, applying every remedy To Dftng MIN
TO consciousness. but without avail. his
system having been so weakened, that he
succumbed at the hour mentioned. opium
poisoning was the cause of his death, but
whether taken accidentally or purposcly
is not known. Coroner lill deemed an
lnuuest not necessary, and the body was
taken TO the morgue
From letters upon the person OF the
dead mar it was found that he had been a
lawyer in Durham and Raleigh. n. T..
lie na0 ltlltIS Ol Recommendation llUll
nrominent North Carolinlans to Hon.
uoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior.
and il was found that the latter had APP
pointed him TO a position In the Interior
Department last fall. The letters In his
possession also seemed to show that he
was a relative of Hon. Charles NJ. Busbee
and Hon. Fabius H.. Busbee, both very
prominent lawyers of Raleigh. y. c., the
former of whom has been a member Of
" o.. H. 4 - 49,. ..l ,.anl
master OF the knights Of Pythias of the
United States: the latter, United States
District Attorney during President
Cleveland's former incumbency. besides
other Offices held by both. the Busbee
family being "A very prominent one In
North Carolina.
The deceased is a tall. fne-looking man,
apparently about so years of age, wore a
heavy mustache and was neatly dressed.
IL is not known how long he had been
in Baltimore, his first appearance here,
so far as known. having been last sun
day. when. being out Of money, he per-
suaded MISUNDERSTANDING Shriver. oil
the Young Mems Christian Association,
10 loan him enough money for lodging and
breakfast that night at the W~orkingmen'
Residential Club, saying that he expected
"A letter containing money from Wash
ington the next day Monday.
The letter came, and the money. and
ne repaid the loan. and. taking the re-
mainder, went off and became very mucf
intoxicated. and was in that condition
Monday night. He stayed at the
club that night. leaving the next
morning. and not returning until We'd
nesday night. He stayed there also Thurs
day and Friday nights, and went oG'
Saturday morning. He was drinking al
the week. on Monday he received a let
ter. also postmarked Washington, di
rected in a feminine hand, besides The
letter containing money, which was SEN
by special delivery and directed In carr
OF the club.
Busbee had very little money durins
the week after Monday, and continued Il
say tina ne expected a letter eontainins
money from the chief clerk of the Int
rior Department. but such a letter die
not come. He also had n letter from X
L. King, Washington. addressed care
Frank L. Lewis. $50 Equitable Building
which expressed the hope that Busbe'
was having luck. 1903 q street. north
west Washington" was the address
found on some Of the dead mans papers