On Wednesday, January 15, 1873, George W. Bailey suddenly disappeared in San Francisco. Mr. Bailey had been a resident of Contra Costa county for about eight years, and for the last six or seven had resided in Martinez, where he married and practiced law, a portion of the time in association with Judge Brown, and for a year or more with L. B. Mizner of Benicia.
The Gazette, of January 25th, thus accounts for the mystery: It seems, however, to be generally believed by those best informed respecting his circumstances and obligations, that embarrassments arising from an inability to meet an engagement for the investment of some trust funds, in his hands as receiver, has occasioned his disappearance. The money he held in trust is the rental revenue of property the title to which is now in litigation, and, except what has already been invested or properly accounted for, the amount, as we are informed, does not exceed four or five thousand dollars. An opportunity for investing the larger portion of this amount in a loan to Messrs. Mizner and Shirley had offered, and being satisfactory to the respective claimants in the pending litigation, arrangements were made for their receiving the money, represented to be on deposit there, in San Francisco, on Tuesday of last week (the 14th). On Monday evening, Mr. Bailey, accompanied by his wife and one of his two little children, went to San Francisco by the Sacramento boat, and on arriving there put up at the Lick House.
On the following day, when the money was to have been furnished, he gave some not entirely satisfactory reason for deferring the payment until the following day, since the morning of which he has not been seen nor heard from. Subsequent inquiry disclosed the fact that no money had ever been on deposit at the bank he had named, nor elsewhere, so far as could be ascertained, nor is it surmised that any was secreted and carried away by him. It is probable that the money has, little by little, been applied to personal uses, during the four years, or more, of his receivership, with the intention of restoring it, and his embarrassment on being required to produce it, without the ability to do so, is probably the cause of his sudden and otherwise unexplained disappearance." The above surmise was, indeed, too true. He took his own life while in a state of temporary insanity, his body being found with a pistol shot through his skull, on January 25th, at Visitacion Valley in a rocky secluded place a few miles south of San Francisco.
- "History Of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography And Description; Together With A Record Of The Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents Of Pioneer Life; And Biographical Sketches Of Early And Prominent Settlers And Representative Men" By JP Munro-Fraser, 1882; San Francisco, W.A. Slocum & Co.
The Gazette, of January 25th, thus accounts for the mystery: It seems, however, to be generally believed by those best informed respecting his circumstances and obligations, that embarrassments arising from an inability to meet an engagement for the investment of some trust funds, in his hands as receiver, has occasioned his disappearance. The money he held in trust is the rental revenue of property the title to which is now in litigation, and, except what has already been invested or properly accounted for, the amount, as we are informed, does not exceed four or five thousand dollars. An opportunity for investing the larger portion of this amount in a loan to Messrs. Mizner and Shirley had offered, and being satisfactory to the respective claimants in the pending litigation, arrangements were made for their receiving the money, represented to be on deposit there, in San Francisco, on Tuesday of last week (the 14th). On Monday evening, Mr. Bailey, accompanied by his wife and one of his two little children, went to San Francisco by the Sacramento boat, and on arriving there put up at the Lick House.
On the following day, when the money was to have been furnished, he gave some not entirely satisfactory reason for deferring the payment until the following day, since the morning of which he has not been seen nor heard from. Subsequent inquiry disclosed the fact that no money had ever been on deposit at the bank he had named, nor elsewhere, so far as could be ascertained, nor is it surmised that any was secreted and carried away by him. It is probable that the money has, little by little, been applied to personal uses, during the four years, or more, of his receivership, with the intention of restoring it, and his embarrassment on being required to produce it, without the ability to do so, is probably the cause of his sudden and otherwise unexplained disappearance." The above surmise was, indeed, too true. He took his own life while in a state of temporary insanity, his body being found with a pistol shot through his skull, on January 25th, at Visitacion Valley in a rocky secluded place a few miles south of San Francisco.
- "History Of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography And Description; Together With A Record Of The Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents Of Pioneer Life; And Biographical Sketches Of Early And Prominent Settlers And Representative Men" By JP Munro-Fraser, 1882; San Francisco, W.A. Slocum & Co.
On Wednesday, January 15, 1873, George W. Bailey suddenly disappeared in San Francisco. Mr. Bailey had been a resident of Contra Costa county for about eight years, and for the last six or seven had resided in Martinez, where he married and practiced law, a portion of the time in association with Judge Brown, and for a year or more with L. B. Mizner of Benicia.
The Gazette, of January 25th, thus accounts for the mystery: It seems, however, to be generally believed by those best informed respecting his circumstances and obligations, that embarrassments arising from an inability to meet an engagement for the investment of some trust funds, in his hands as receiver, has occasioned his disappearance. The money he held in trust is the rental revenue of property the title to which is now in litigation, and, except what has already been invested or properly accounted for, the amount, as we are informed, does not exceed four or five thousand dollars. An opportunity for investing the larger portion of this amount in a loan to Messrs. Mizner and Shirley had offered, and being satisfactory to the respective claimants in the pending litigation, arrangements were made for their receiving the money, represented to be on deposit there, in San Francisco, on Tuesday of last week (the 14th). On Monday evening, Mr. Bailey, accompanied by his wife and one of his two little children, went to San Francisco by the Sacramento boat, and on arriving there put up at the Lick House.
On the following day, when the money was to have been furnished, he gave some not entirely satisfactory reason for deferring the payment until the following day, since the morning of which he has not been seen nor heard from. Subsequent inquiry disclosed the fact that no money had ever been on deposit at the bank he had named, nor elsewhere, so far as could be ascertained, nor is it surmised that any was secreted and carried away by him. It is probable that the money has, little by little, been applied to personal uses, during the four years, or more, of his receivership, with the intention of restoring it, and his embarrassment on being required to produce it, without the ability to do so, is probably the cause of his sudden and otherwise unexplained disappearance." The above surmise was, indeed, too true. He took his own life while in a state of temporary insanity, his body being found with a pistol shot through his skull, on January 25th, at Visitacion Valley in a rocky secluded place a few miles south of San Francisco.
- "History Of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography And Description; Together With A Record Of The Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents Of Pioneer Life; And Biographical Sketches Of Early And Prominent Settlers And Representative Men" By JP Munro-Fraser, 1882; San Francisco, W.A. Slocum & Co.
The Gazette, of January 25th, thus accounts for the mystery: It seems, however, to be generally believed by those best informed respecting his circumstances and obligations, that embarrassments arising from an inability to meet an engagement for the investment of some trust funds, in his hands as receiver, has occasioned his disappearance. The money he held in trust is the rental revenue of property the title to which is now in litigation, and, except what has already been invested or properly accounted for, the amount, as we are informed, does not exceed four or five thousand dollars. An opportunity for investing the larger portion of this amount in a loan to Messrs. Mizner and Shirley had offered, and being satisfactory to the respective claimants in the pending litigation, arrangements were made for their receiving the money, represented to be on deposit there, in San Francisco, on Tuesday of last week (the 14th). On Monday evening, Mr. Bailey, accompanied by his wife and one of his two little children, went to San Francisco by the Sacramento boat, and on arriving there put up at the Lick House.
On the following day, when the money was to have been furnished, he gave some not entirely satisfactory reason for deferring the payment until the following day, since the morning of which he has not been seen nor heard from. Subsequent inquiry disclosed the fact that no money had ever been on deposit at the bank he had named, nor elsewhere, so far as could be ascertained, nor is it surmised that any was secreted and carried away by him. It is probable that the money has, little by little, been applied to personal uses, during the four years, or more, of his receivership, with the intention of restoring it, and his embarrassment on being required to produce it, without the ability to do so, is probably the cause of his sudden and otherwise unexplained disappearance." The above surmise was, indeed, too true. He took his own life while in a state of temporary insanity, his body being found with a pistol shot through his skull, on January 25th, at Visitacion Valley in a rocky secluded place a few miles south of San Francisco.
- "History Of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography And Description; Together With A Record Of The Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents Of Pioneer Life; And Biographical Sketches Of Early And Prominent Settlers And Representative Men" By JP Munro-Fraser, 1882; San Francisco, W.A. Slocum & Co.
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