Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1920-08-12
E. H. GRIM DIES in
new YORK CITY

NEW IUNA I'll /
NEW YORK, Aup. 9.-Rela-
tives and business. associates of
E. H. Grim. banker and depart
ment store owner of Philippi,
w. Va, who died in hospital
here Saturday under suspicious
circumstances arrived here to-
day for an autopsy to be held
this afternoon.
Mr.. Grim was found sprawl
ed on the floor in rooming
house. He apparently had been
drugged an death was believed
to have been caused by an over
dose. Friend of the banker
who said he usually carried the
opinion sums of money express
ed the opinion that he had been
robbed.
Two suspects are reported to
be under arrest, for completely
In the tragedy which has cast a
cloud of sarrow over our county.
lnterment Wednesday 10 A.
M. in Philippi.
The starting word reached
this his home town, last Sun
day, that Edmund H. Grim, who
was in the East buying goods,
had died suddenly in New York,
but a later wire announced the
still more shocking news that he
was the victim of d robber and
assassin, and that his body part
ly clothed had been found on the
street.
Later, when parties went to
the city to investigate the mat
ter, they found that he had been
lnveigled into an upstairs room
on Bath street some distance
fromthe hotel, the Pennsylvania
drugged and left in dying con-
ditionsS He was taken to the
hospital but soon expired with
out regarding consciousness.
leaving the circumstances at
tending his death, shoruded in
mystery something for the one
hundred and fifty homicide de-
tectives of New York to Hunravel.
When found his, valuables.
consisting of diamonds and Jew
elry, watch &C., to the value of
$4,000 were gone, proving be
yond question the object of the
party or parties who caused his
death.
Several suspects, including
the man. Ready, in whose
room he was found, are under
arrest, and everythingpo is
being done to locate the robber
and murderer.
The body was prepared for
shipping afer the proper legal
steps had been taken, and arriv-
ed here on Tuesday night.
The victim Of the Modern
Sodom, will be wonderfully
missed in Philippi and Barbour
Co. He was one of our most
enterprising men, haveing the
financial ability to do things on
a large scale, and at this very
time was building and rearrang-
ing his large mercantile estab-
lishment on Main street for the
accommodation of modern de-
partment store, to be the equal
OF any in Central West Virginia
He was the son of the late J
Il. B. Grim and Inherited his
financial ability. At the time of
his death he was president of
the First National Bank of this
| place, one of West Virginia's
strong Institutions and was in
terestlng IN many other
financial enterprises while
not as communicative as
some, was ready to assist in
making the enterprises of his
community go when it came to
the real pushing Of the same.
He was the owner of large
farming interests as we'll as his
big store in Philippi.
Mr.. Grim was member of
the M. E. Church, South, atPhil-
ippi, and was about Sc years
old.
He is survived by his wife
and one daughter, Miss Lucille.
who has been in schol at IIol-
lands Virginia, but is home now.
Many friends and relatives of
the deceased attended the fur
eral on Wednesday, which was
held at the home by this pastor
Rev. F. N. Nutter, assisted by
Rev. L. j. Powell. The remains
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