The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-22
COMMITTED suICIDE.

M. c. Linuiey To. meeiy for Years of tho
 George II. Ford Jeweiry Store. This City
 His ody Found in Lake Michigan.
 An Associated Press dispatch yester- day from Chicago says: The suicide Of M. G. Ansley. the salesman for Hyman. Berg & Co.. Jewellers. is surrounded In mystery. Linsley. who came from New Haven. Conn.,, was prominent in social circles and commanded large salary.
 A story of s3o,OOo robbery from Hy- man, Berg & Go. was circulated in con- nection with the suicide. but the mem- bers of the firm emphatically deny that any robbery had occurred. They de- ciared that Linsley's accounts are straight. and that there is no founda- ton for the rumor that his suicide was the result of large thefts.
 The body of Linsley was found in Lake Michigan to-day at the foot of Ninety-first street. The appearance of the body indicated that 1t had been in the water several days, and as Linsley was last seen Friday evening, he Is supposed to have drowned himself Fri day night or Saturday morning.
 M. G. Linsley ten years ago was one of the best known Chapel street sales men of New Haven. At one time he travelled for a New York jewelry house, but was best known here through his connection with the G. H. Ford com pany, where he was employed for six years.
 General Ford yesterday, speaking of Linsley, said he was a valuable clerk and very we'll liked. He was troubled considerably by a nervous affection caused by dyspepsia, that at times made him Respondent, but this ap- parently had no effect on his ability as a salesman, which was excellent.
 The deceased was about thirty-seven years old. He came here from Meriden, where his parents resided at the time of his employment by the G. H. Ford company. He was 8 man of high char acter. excellent habits, and by large number of New Haven society people who, were waited upon at the store by MT. Linsley he is well and favorably re- membered.
 Fred Minor of this city, now with the l. l.. Stiles Brick company, knew Lins- ley both here and in Chicago, where MT. Minor resided two years ago. Mr. Minor says that Linsley was social favorite there. and moved in very good society, and always impressed him with being an excellently bright fellow.
 MT. Linsley's position with the Chi cago firm was responsible and well paid one, and no cause Is assigned for the rash act except, probably, an ex- treme nervous condition which may have brought on mental Arrangement.
 A dispatch from Chicago last evening says: Hyman, Berges & Co.,, the State street jewellers, say the circumstances of his death point to suicide, but they suspect he was murdered by, robbers His body was taken from Lake Michi- gan this mornig at the foot of Ninety ninth street, South Chicago. He lived at the Metropole hotel, several miles from the place where his body was found, but may have been thrown into the lake or he may have jumped in at a point nearer the hotel, the body drifting to South Chicago. He had not been seen since last Saturday morning, when he sent a message to the store that he was i'll. His friends can give no reason to substantiate the suicide theory. He came to Chicago eight years ago from New Haven, Conn.,, where he was employed by the jewelry firm of Ford & Co. His family connections in the east were excellent and he was unmarried.