The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-11-20
NO.. 8
TOOK HIS LIFE
The Late President OF the knick.
eTbocker trust Company
COMMIT TED SUICIDE.

vUNassBs ] ] 6D SUUaDsse
!, He Was Mixed Up in the Late Panic
in New York. and Was Deposed for
Specializing in the Trusts Com
\ pany's Deposits-Dissapation of
! Bis Private Fortune and Loss Of
Business Standing Upset His Mind.
Charles Tracy Barney, the deposeA
president of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company, Of New York, and until re-
ceotly power IN the financial world,
shot and killed himself Thursday in
his home. His loans with the bank,
it is said. are assured, and when he
was forced from its presidency he
was to all intents apd purposes elm
mated as a factor in banking circles.
What ill-efects his unexpected
taking off might have had on the
financial situation generally had long
since been discounted IN distress Of
mind over the dissipation Of his pri-
vate fortune and th+, loss Of his high
standing among business associates,
intimate acquaintances ind the hid
den drift that broke his health and
reason.
Much of his personal wealth might
have been saved. At the tine that
Barney was dying at his home at
East Thirty-eighth street and Park
avenue, and surgeons prohed for
bullet that, misdirected by & nerve
less hand, had entered the body be-
low the heart, a handful Of friends at
a downtown Office were concluding
an arrangement by which the loose
ends Of the bankers Many enter
prises were to be gathered up and
financed by q stock company, which,
| if not wholly successful, would at
least have rescued from the wreck
age sufficient to insure the promoters
future financially. The conference
broke up following the announcement
that Mr.. Barney was dead.
Mr.. Barney, who was in his fifty
seventh year, shot himself while
alone in his chamber at the rear OF
the second floor Of his home, The
bullet entered below tbs: heart and
lodged under the left shoulder blade.
He died about 2 o'clock that after
noon after suffering intensely. The
death was reported to the coroner g
little past three o'clock. From the
confusing stories due to the excite
ment of the hour it was determined
that Mr.. Barney deliberately shot
himself while alone and soon after
rising.
AS the bullet entered his body he
fell unconscious upon the bed. The.
report of the revolver startled the
family. Mrs. Susan Abbott Meade,
guest, was the first cG reach the
chamber and she summoned the ply
sicians. DR.. Dixon res7)pded, and
also called two other physicians, Nj
Barney was revived, AMI to DR.. Dix
on, for twenty years tn. family ply
sician, said:
Doctor, this is an accident.
In reporting this to the coroner,
DR.. Dixoa added, "wita this coin
eide"
Ether was administered and Efforts
wee made to remove the bullet. eut
they were not successful. During
periods of consciousness the patent
suffered much, but according to
those who were with him made no
statement other than that quoted by
DR.. Dixon.
A desk in !ne chamber was litter
cd With memorandums aud piled high
with papers, including letters from
bankers and other fnancla. corresl
1ondents throughout the country.
But the coroner was unable to md
any communication FROM Carney 70
suggest purpose Of se'e-destructlon.
Mr.. Barney was born in CleFeianc'
Ohio, on January, 27. 1881 He was
the son of a. H. Barney. presaoent OK
the United States Exp es5 Company:
After graduating from. Williams COY
.ege, 1870, he married MISS L'!ls
whitney, sister Of VIA. G. Whitney.
This IS the first tragic echo from
the late gamblers panic in New YORK.
Mr.. Barney played the game OF fren'
zied finance, lost and paid the penai
tv The Knickerbocker Company was
hadly involved in the late panic. anu
president Barney, and all the oiIec
tors were removed, and an investlsa
tion Of the company is no" osins
made. and some of the big deposa.s.s
have given out that all officers o. the
COMPANY 70 who have violated the law law
will be prosecuted. No doubt I'M TINS
had something to do with n the hsu1axss rsesl,
tents suicide. He had borrowed
s, I,;e ouy company.