Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — CUT OFF FROM HIS KIN [ARTICLE]

CUT OFF FROM HIS KIN

Son of a Noble, British Family ) Dies in Poverty and Insanity. INTERESTING DOUBLE WEDDING Father and Daughter Two of the Principals Fine Voice at Seventy-Six. Muncie, Ind., April 23.—Insane from worry over his misfortune and in destitute -Circumstances, notwithstanding his intimate relationship with the English nobility, Henry Yates, sixty-three years old, a grandson of the late Lord Hamersley, of England, is dead at bls borne here. Appeals to his relatives for assistance went unanswered. For several years Yates was a building contractor here. He was wealthy at times, but bad lost his fortunes. Cast Off by Hie Family. Yates, according to documents in bis possession, was cast off from his family when a young man for identifying himself In Canada With the Liberal party, and for marrying an opera singer, whom he afterward divorced. At the time of his death Yates had pending before the British parliament a claim for $106,000, as the amount still due from his father’s estate. Worry over the failure of parliament to take rapid action on hts claim is believed to have hastened the progress of the disease with which, he had been suffering. Several weeks ago be became insane and sank rapidly until bis death. Hit on the Head with a Stone. Muncie. Ind., April 23. William Thompson, a crippled welldigger, was murderously assaulted and be is in a precarious condition. Kite Williams, stepson of the injured man, and Edward Hess were arrested later in the railroad yards, as they were boarding a freight train, and are being held without ball. Thompson has concussion of the brain, and hisskull may be fractured. He has been unconscious since the assanlt. Thompson and Williams had a fight, and Williams was badly beaten by Thompson, whereupon Williams is said to have picked up a stone and hit the old man over the head. Missionary Society Meeting. Ml Muncie, Ind.. April 23—Secretary Horace G. Murphy, of this city, has completed the programme for the Sixth district convention of missionary sowomen’s boards of missions of the cietlee. Sunday schools and Christian Church of Christ, to be held April 27 and 28 in Milton.