SUICIDE AT SEA

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 6

SUICIDE AT SEA

New York, July 25.— General) James H,, V*n. > } Alea" jumped overboard -from ;the steamerrUambria on July 22nd,; and; wwars r loati^He. left New York- for .Englandj a short time ago to pla<se : „, his grandchildren in achooU „fttr: ; Southampton. While -in • -England jU©-., received'a telegram/ announcing the; serious illness of his only son; the father oft, three grandchildren. The General, who ; was 70>years old,' waa greatly -aSected , by the. news and decided to return at once.,- f MajorRj M. Grinnell, a . f riend j ? decided z to come with the General, fearing come x accident it he came alone in his nervous, excited con ditfon.' Although the General .slept, poorly and was depressed, everything , went fairly treU until Wednesday, when hebrojuedown underithe strain, became feverish and talked incoherently." ■ Grinnell^after watching him .all pight, fell asleep about 4 a.m.. ,^>n waking an hour later the? Genial,, was missing.: - A soarch developcdrtne^fpct.thmt he i Had' carefully dressed! ,jand jumped' over the stern ofwthe.jboat.' i The Ginftral was the son of i» wealthy NeWi^rork xnerch»nt,and had never devoted, ( hinwelf. to i^aeiness, passing most r of jhisitime ft% NewTpori^s^During.the war he^aiied a regiment «f c*Tftlryat his own expense, iwent to the -Jront Haidl rose "to the rank- iof. Brigadier' "^General, . reeigninp< in 4863. = rJEie! hm military Governor at Yorktown in 186j3/>wlt9D he bec*m« belsT©d by the ntgroei.