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Show j A. OA KEY HALL. DisUfiMlctl and Wearied oC Lilt, lie lenirc to be For-Ifotleii For-Ifotleii by his Fricuiln. A Xew Theory ol Ills Flight. New YorV, C. Louis J. Jennings sends lrom London the following dispatch dis-patch to the World: In reply to your further questions concerning my conversation with Hall, it may not be improper for me to say that his flight was caused by the ever-recurring spectre of Ida alleged complicity compli-city in tho ring frauds, Tho perpetual per-petual revival of these charges made Iile intolerable to him, till ho came to think death better than to bo constantly con-stantly pointed at. Ho said to me that he wished to be considered dead by his irienda and to be forgotten. Ho is greatly depressed and seems to have no care for tho future. As to the woman who is said to be in New York, as you inform me to be his companion, I have seen nothing ol such a person, and from my conversation conversa-tion with him believe that no such a person had any part in his flight. 1 (io not think any other person beside himself was cognizant of his purpose in leaving New York. I consider him to be simply an utterly broken man. The World supplements this dispatch dis-patch by saying that there is a theory connected with Hall's disappearance, which on cluao examination of the facts seem to cover all the circumstances circum-stances of this otherwise incomprehensible incompre-hensible all'air. It appears that Hall had an insurance of some $00,000 on his life. To his friend Douglas Taylor he said only a few weeks before his flight: "My family would be better orl if I wcrodead'aud there is much to prove that he meant to convey the belief that he met his death that Friday night alter he left his office. |