The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-09-19
By Speculation Take Their Own
Lives in Various Ways.
: HASTE TO BE RICB
Has Caused the Downfall of Many ol
Tbose Who Posed as Defenders
of the National Honor
When Bryan R4n
for President.

iraYal OF trust, has been responsible
'or staItirg number Of suicides In
Philadelphia snorg men of affairs
and prominence in the social world.
The Philadelphia correspondent for
:hs Cnicsgo cord.Herald says: BE
ginning with the sensational failur.
IT the eystone National bank in
1901 which ruined nen whose lepu
.-slons wers ss urtarnished as that OF
9he president Of the R:al Estate
Trust Company, and which resulted
10 jail foZ two of them, Phiiaie phia
Has had an ansz ag series Of financial
:can6sls and bank wrecks.
Bsak dsp.s:tors have lost millions,
DUE the largest tn-cads OF the Wild
cat foscciars we're MADE in esphsl.
I'd tn Consolidated Like Superior
- these two companies the pubic
.2,-geiy in Philadelphia, dropped up
aard OF sl0o, 900, 600. In nearly every
suicide oeueeo by wild est finance at
tenpas havs bsen made to suppress
;.:e tscts, IS In the case OF tie presi
dent OF the Rsal E,tsts Trust CUM.
pany, whose suicide was known to the
members of his fsmily, the coroner
ard the corooer's physician for six
days, and was even suppressed By
Phllsdslphis papers.
UctoTuunsle speculstion without
shs { cation feature br"ught abcr,
ahe ss.f /; Il cvsd death { + FtSnkltn B
GoHen, p e,idens Of the Philadelphia
md Re-d:ng railroad, and one Of the
most brilliant a2d successful lawyers
q ehs Ksysacne state. he shot him
sslt Ia D.ceabsr, 1889 When an ap
praieal OF his essaee wss made it wss
found that he had LEFT but a450, coo
n personal and feal pro. eEty OF an es
sate that In lis ifetime vas esSimas-
J srHa Horih between So 600. .0G0
SUD IS coo, 900 he had baen tnduc
Cd to invest IN southern lands, where,
it is oelieYe;;, be &, fired grsa5 losses.
W::lian NJ Siagsrly, proprietor OF
she P Philadelphia Rscord, president OF
5ne Chestnut Street. National bank
sad The Chestnut Street Tlust com
psuy, died under circumstances which
pointed Enthusiastically to = oesth self
:nhict5d. Cysnine Ct potassium is
believed 10 have baen "'1e agent, but
80 far as the records + khe coronsr's
face 20 that cause Ia not ascr'bsd
Both banks failed, ard Sirgsriy vas
found to havs secured $500 900 from
one OF *hsm On colls5sraI security ci
oniy s75. COO
The E cerd-B=rald correspondent
further says: j, seph G. Ditman,
president OF tie Q iaker City Nationa.
o4nk, disappeared nystertously an6
fox 5x days it was he ieved he had beer
robbsd snd Eucdsred. Af5er drive
tarcugh Fsirmouat Psrk, his empty
carriage aad the horse was found
Forty days sttsr his Disappearance
the dsconposed body Of the banker
vas fcuad toatirg in the Scnuylkill
river. His fcrtun5 had been lost In
specu' alton.
| b. min q. Gaskill, stock brck
ar, cnesosd his friends and then killed
oimself 10 avoid f cling them. HI
vas q thief and torger, but this DIS
coVery was LOT made Until after bis
death. Hts forgeries forced the City
Trust, S*f; Deposit and Surety com.
pany into bankruptcy. His methods
9ere Ingenious and he reaped some.
Thing like million dollars on raised
stock certificates.
R,bsrt Adams, Jr., fsmiliarlg
known as 'Bsrtie' Adams, former min
tsser to Blszil, prominent as one OF
che original explorers OF the Yellow.
stone region AID mamber o congress
from Pnils delphia, conn iii 4 suicide
by shooting in the Mstrcpuntan club,
Washington. Wildcat speculation was
directly responsible. BE died penni
lees, having d!sslpated 2 fortune OF
s300.000
josiah B. A6srs, prominent
c!ubnan and lawyer, killed himself in
hotel. he was nominated fer
u6ge Of the srpslior court. a bitter
attack was made upon him by local
newspaper. he wss &C used Of hav.
ing consptred with another man to
detraud the public By get itch, quick
scheme in which 1t Was alleged that
hundreds OF persons were Induced to
nYkst to Eueir sorrow. Adams made
wsak denial 90 the charge and with
drew frun uns ticket. The matter
preye6 on mis- mind and he shot him.
self.
Jobn Field. once postmaster OF
Philadalpnla, nember Of the old
wholesale dry goods b; u % OF Young,
Sm1ah, Field & Co.. shot and killed
himself in Fairmount Park while in.
sane. he came from Ireland wheu
ne vas fourteen years old and began
az errand bog In the house he subse-
quently controlled The firm did a
big business and, in addition to
branches in Baltimore, Ciacinnssti,
Indianapolis and San 2 sncisco, oa1-
iiet on a banking business In ssxony.
It never was definitely known how
Mr.. Field impaired bis fortune, but
the general belief was that ID was due
10 spee7lation in reslity, which he
knew eoshing about. This so Affect
Cd his mind that he developed 3
suicidal mania. %
According TO the same authority:
"Jsnss Y. P. Turner, register Of
vial statistics OF Philadelpnia and .
lawyer OF note, shot himself iD Fair
mount Park In April, 1909 He was
: nsnhsr OF she Society Of the War
Of 1919 and OF the Sons Of the
& volu.ion. Re was known through
ouu the country IS = genealogist. Mr.
Tu ner mad been induced to invest il
lanes in the west wntcn he believed
to oe mineral bearihx, LuL Wnich
turned ous 30 be worthless. BE be-
came Respondent and chose to kill
hi1aself rather than begin life over