The Daily Dispatch

The Wealthy Suicide.—On Monday we noticed the death of Mr. Franklin C. Gray, a wealthy Californian, by being crushed under the cars of the railroad at New Rochelle, on the track of which he had deliberately taken his position that he might be killed. He went to California about eight years ago, and returned a few months since a wealthy man, with an income of $36,000 per annum. He married recently a very beautiful young lady in Washington, and went to New York to live, where he purchased a fine mansion and furnished it superbly. Of late he had shown signs of depression of spirits and eccentricity of temper. He sold his house at a sacrifice, advertised his furniture for sale at his house, and the morning of the sale sent it off to a furniture broker, disappointing the crowd that came to buy. He then repaired to the country, going to New Rochelle, where he stayed but a little time before his tragical death.

According to the Washington Star, it is probable that his suicide was occasioned by distress at being pursued by a lady with whom it is said he was connected in marriage in California, and who lately arrived in New York, and who threatened to sue him for bigamy. The Star says that in contracting his second marriage, there is every reason to believe that Mr. Gray was not aware that his former matrimonial obligations had not been sufficiently obliterated by the action of the law to leave him at liberty to form his last marriage legally.

Before his death he made a will, leaving his entire property to the lady he married in Washington—who was a Miss French.