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Story July 8, 1829

The Hillsborough Recorder

Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina

What is this article about?

Mysterious disappearance and presumed suicide of Mr. James R. Creey of Elizabethton shocks the community. He traveled to Baltimore eight weeks prior, ceased correspondence, and sent a trunk home containing letters revealing his intent to end his life without his body being found.

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Lamentable Event.--Never have we witnessed a state of equal excitement, with that produced on our community for the last ten days, by the mysterious absence, and supposed, by suicide, of Mr James R. Creey, Esq. of this town. Mr Creey left home some seven or eight weeks ago for Baltimore and other northern cities on business as he stated for three or four weeks after corresponded regularly with his family and friends, as he had uniformly been in the habit of doing when absent: after which they had no tidings of him until about ten days ago when it was rumored that he had destroyed himself in Baltimore or its neighborhood. and the rumor was soon strengthened by the following facts--One of his friends went on to Norfolk and at Portsmouth found a letter in the post office containing the key of his trunk, with intimations that he had forwarded the trunk home and that on opening it, they would have the whole matter developed--the trunk was found in a few days at the steam boat office in Norfolk and brought to this place: on opening it, it was found to contain all the clothes he had carried from home with the exception of a single suit, and several letters and memorandums, in which he stated that he had resolved on destroying himself; that the great difficulty with him for several days had been, how he should dispose of his body so that it would never be found; that he had at length fallen on a plan and that all search after it would be fruitless--the letters are without date both as to time and place, are written partly in an apparently composed mood and in other parts in a wild and incoherent manner. but from the fact that the trunk arrived in Norfolk by the steam boat from Baltimore, on the 4th inst. that he was seen at Barnum's hotel about the 1st, it is conjectured the letters were written between the 1st and 3d in that city. There a thousand rumors afloat in regard to this mysterious affair. but we forbear to dilate on the subject or to enter into details, in the fear of adding another pang, to the deeply lacerated feelings of the family of Mr. Creey.

Elizabethton Gazette.

What sub-type of article is it?

Mystery Tragedy

What themes does it cover?

Misfortune Tragedy Madness

What keywords are associated?

Mysterious Disappearance Presumed Suicide Trunk Letters Baltimore Travel Community Excitement

What entities or persons were involved?

Mr James R. Creey Esq.

Where did it happen?

Elizabethton, Baltimore, Norfolk

Story Details

Key Persons

Mr James R. Creey Esq.

Location

Elizabethton, Baltimore, Norfolk

Event Date

About Ten Days Ago, Trunk Arrived 4th Inst., Seen About 1st

Story Details

Mr. Creey left Elizabethton for Baltimore eight weeks ago, stopped corresponding, rumors of suicide arose; trunk sent home with letters stating intent to destroy himself and hide body, written in composed and incoherent styles between 1st and 3rd inst. in Baltimore.

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