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Show fortune Came Late, (New fork Letter ) , When James W Moyle. for tha Enl lima In his Ions and eventful life, round himself unable to meet a bill I "which was presented to him (or payment, pay-ment, lis became despondent, and. In moment o( Insanity commuted sul- cldo by throwing himself Into the North river. That waa tit weeks ago Ilia body waa recovered a day or two Had Moyle breasted the tide of adversity ad-versity a (cw daya longtr ho would bate (ound blmsiK again n man o( wealth. Mining claims In Montana, purchased long ago, have Just been found to be of great value. They are now being worked, and are producing orea rich with copper gold and allver deposits. Apparently, thero la no foundation foun-dation for the report which was circulated cir-culated that Mr. Moylo waa the victim of an assassin When tho body waa found floating In the rltcr by a fisherman, fisher-man, he knotted a rope around the neck and towed It to the Jersey shore. Others, seeing tho ropo and noticing no-ticing that It had worn away the ten-dor ten-dor skin, concluded that a murder had TI1U LATE JAMES V MOYLE. ecn commuted by a strangler. Thus tho rumor of foul play started. In truth, every Indication polnta to suicide. sui-cide. Tor yean James V Moylo had spent much of his time In New York, nnd when In tho city always made his homo ni tho Hoffman house It only would hate been nccosiwiy (or him to bavo asked (or nn extension o( credit and ho might hnto lled nt the hotel until his affairs were In better condition. condi-tion. Ho was too sensltlvt to tnakd known his trouble, and so on April 10, Mr. Moylo toured In his letter bot n bill for his room nnd board for tho month of March, and In tils pocket no funds with which to pay That day he disappeared, nnd though his friends hunted the city over for him. and plac-ed plac-ed tho caso In tho hands of tho New-combo New-combo detective ngency, no tracq of blm could be found. Cablegrams wore sent to London nnd I'arls, where ho was well known, but tho search wns fruitless until six woks had elapsed. Tho body waa taken to tho Jersey City morgue, and tho friends of tha dead man In New York were nolflled. H. II. Clark, one of tho trustees of the Hearst estate, garo Instructions that the body should bo prepared for shipment ship-ment to San Prnnclscn, where Interment Inter-ment will take- place. Mr. Clark also Intimated that any debts which were left by Mr. Mo)lo would bo Immediately Immediate-ly taken euro of. James W. Moylo passed through tho career of an adventurous speculator. It Is said that four times hn accumulated accumu-lated an Immcnsa fortune, and f cmr times he descended to poverty. Then, raro tratesty upon human fate, a fifth ' tlmo did riches pile up for him, but too late for him to glo them heed. At tho tlmo of his death he was slxty-etght slxty-etght years old. When n slip of n boy ho Joined tho argonauts of '49, and, with pick nnd shovel, worked In tho California gold fields. Success was with htm nt first, and beforo ho had arrived at manhood's estate his luck had become a protcrb, and his wealth Treat Ho was tho assoclato of I'lffod a4 O'Drlcn, Mackey nnd I'alr Ho was on terms of Intimacy with Wnlkcr, llsldwlii, Hearst nd Junes, and in !;r trsrs with Daly and Clark and otter mining kings Then years ngu lu, was accounted seternl limes a mil iwnalre, but his wealth all slipped tbrough his ringers In the west every -to waa his friend, for the rosso: that he dealt honestly with all men. lis was respected by all classes, thieves and honest n.cn being nllko willing to trust him Serve he possessed lu plenty, and. thougn of small stature, he had a lepuiatlon of being a bad man In a'qnarrel In the das of tho old stago rout ties Moyle, with a number num-ber uf others was making a trip across the plains, when brigands raited a hnlt and demanded tha valuables o( nil of tho passengers Mo)le was seated back In a dark corner or the coaili and when railed upon to glvo up announced announc-ed that he had 110 Otw worth of gold dust which he calculated to keep or to dlo Tho leader of the stage robbers rob-bers recognised his voice, and quickly announced that no thlet on tho road was mean enough to rob "Jimmy" Moyle. He kept hla gold. On more than ono occasion Moyle went abroad to dispose or mining properties. In tandon nnd I'arls ho becumo known as the ono mining broker In whose word absolute confldenco could b placed Mr Moyle left a wire and two daughters, both at the children having husbands or wealth Mrs Moylo lives In Iluena Vistu ntcnue San Pranrliwo She hn been no.lfloJ of the death of her husband lilt daughters, Mrs. Itond nnd Mis Has-brook, Has-brook, also live In 8an I'rnnrUeo. II Is thought that Mr. Mole must bavo been Insane when ho committed sulfide sul-fide He could, It wns said, have borrowed, bor-rowed, thousands ( dollars with no other security than hla word. Twn days before ho disappeared he wrnto a number or personal letters, the tone ol each Indicating nnythlug but despondency. despond-ency. One written to a (arorlto grand diiighlcr. who Is going to school In Massachusetts was particularly cheer-rul cheer-rul Mra Moyle Is said to have, nn Independent foitune In her own name. Tho Montana mining properties which hnvo so recently developed tnluo will rcll (or at least tSJO.OOO Mr. Moyle also owned some mines In Colombli whither he would hato gono this sprint had not a revolution suddenly developed devel-oped there |