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CAME FROM NIAGARA FALLS

[Welland Telegraph, 10 January 1908]

NIAGARA FALL’S. Jan. 7- The young man, H. Grey Duberley, who committed suicide in his room at Hermitage Hotel, New York City, last evening, is the missing Grand Trunk Railway receiving clerk at the local freight warehouse here. He had been missing since the evening of Dec. 28th. The auditors have been checking his accounts, and although the G.T.R authorities decline to state any amount, it is unofficially known that it will each about six hundred dollars.

Young Duberley, after an unpleasant experience on a farm in Crowland Township, came to this city about three years ago and engaged in a law office, later getting employment in the Grand Trunk offices. He made many friends and when he disappeared it was feared that he had thrown himself over the Falls. Miss Amy Hampshire, to whom he left a letter in his room at New York, is head dressmaker in Newcombe’s department store. It is claimed that the two were merely close friends, not sweethearts.

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