New-York tribune., 1910-10-08
FEAR BROKER TOOK LIFE.
GEORGE Idle MaICom Has Been
Missing Since Sunday.
BRoODED OVER SONS DEATH
Effort to Connect Disappearance
with Mans Jumping from
Fall River Boat.

George Ide Malcom, board member OF the
Stock Exchange firm of Malcom & Coombe,
has been missing since Sunday. and his
friends fear that he may have taken his
own life. perhaps by jumping oVerooard
from Fall River boat. T. G. Coombe'
one of his partners, yesterday afternoon
made the following statement:
AT the Office of Messrs. Malcom &
Coombe it is stated that Mr.. Malcom,
whose mind was impaired by domestic
affiiction has not been seen since Sunday.
October :. Owing 10 his depressed mental
state we naturally feel much anxiety over
his absence. but we have no positive in
formation as to what may have befallen
him Mr.. Malcom's business affairs and
those of his firm are in the most prosper
Gus condition and there is absolutely no
reason in any of his business affairs for
his disappearance. The business of the firm
WILL of course be conducted without in
terruption."
The other member OF the firm, II. Ber-
nard Coombe, said
Mr.. Malcom has been staying with his
friend, DR. Doty, on Staten Island, for sew
eral weeks. He came to New York on Sat
urday noon and had luncheon with me,
returning to Staten Island for a game of
golf. on Sunday he told Dr. Doty he
wished to come back to New York for
few hours, and he has not been seen since.
Mr.. Malcolm has been feeling very much
depressed for the last few weeks owing
TO ill health and the loss of his son.
He has been coming to business on days
when he felt well enough. He had abso-
lutely no cause to worry over financial
matters or anything connected with this
firm"
At the office of the Fall River Line it
was said that a sailor who was a passenger
on the Priscilla. which left this city for
Fall River on Sunday afternoon. had re-
ported to the purser that he had seen q
man leap overheard at about o'clock in
the evening, and that the same information
had been given by other passengers, who,
however. were supposed to have heard the
story from the sailor. No stateroOm pas
senger. however was missing. although
hat, without initials, for which no owner
could be discovered, was found on board.
News came yesterday from Madison.
Conn, that the headless body of a man, on
which were garments of good quality. bear
ing no identifying marks, had been washed
ashore on Thursday at that point, and It
was sUrmised that the body might be that
Of Mr.. Malcom.
friend of Mr.. Nalcom said that the lat
ter's twelve-year-old son, William Sheldon
Malcolm, had died from scarlet fever last
June on Fall River boat while on the
way to the summer home of the family at
Hyannisport, Mass, The father grieved
greatly over the loss of the child and the
friend thought. as a result Of his brooding
might have come to the determination to
end his own life by jumping from a steamer
of the same line as that on which the boy
had been travelling.
Another associate of Mr.. Malcom said
that the boy had not died on the steamer.
but after having been brought ashore at
Fall River and when he had almost reached
Hyannisport.
Mr.. Malcom was born at Newport, r T..
on December 4. 1851. and was graduated
from Brown University in 1879. He married
in December, 1855. Reulah a Benham and
has four children. The family home is at
No. 30 East 52d street. Mr.. MaIcom's clubs
are the University. the Riding and the
Alpha Delta Phi. He was admitted to the
New York Stock Exchange on September g.
1925, and for some time was a member of
the governing committee.
The firm of MaICom & Coombe was organ
lied ON May /, 1892. the partners being the
same as at present, Mr.. Malcon. T GortOn
Coomhe and ". Bernard COombe. The of
fees Of the firm are at No. 100 BROADWAY,
and there are nine branch offices. one i'm
Harlem. two in Brooklyn and the others in
New ENGLAND cities.
Mr.. Malcolm was the nephew Of Mrs. Lou
lisa VI. Stenton. whose daughter, Mrs. Alice
G. n. Kinnsn, was found murdered on the
veranda of her home in The Bronx on June
s. 1906. Mrs. SteutOn, who had been ad-
Judged incompetent some time after the
murder OF her daughter died at Harrison.
n Y. on December 90. 1905. The death of
Mrs. Kinuan was the subject OF a searching 2
investigation by The Bronx Coroner and
the police. and remains one Of the unsoved
mysteries Of the City's police records.