Miami Union

THOMSON, WILBERT C. - To correct the many erroneous reports in circulation in relation to the death of the late Wilbert C. Thomson, we state the following on the authority of his father, Mr. J. T. Thomson, who has taken all available means to ascertain the facts in the case: Mr. T. left the hotel in Hartford at which he and his party were stopping, after supper, in company with two other young men, for a walk about town. A few hours afterward they were met on the street by another man who had made the acquaintance of Mr. T. This man asked Mr. Thomson to take a walk with him in another direction, to which he assented--the other two proceeding on to the hotel. This was the last seen of Mr. T. till the next morning, when he was found at a rough tavern some two miles from his place of stopping, where he had evidently been decoyed, drugged, robbed, and otherwise maltreated. Mr. T. is satisfied that the morphine taken by his son was not at all taken for the purpose of suicide, but to allay pain and quiet the excitement of his nerves, produced by the treatment he had received and the loss he had sustained. It was afterwards ascertained that the individual who had decoyed him away was a sharp scoundrel of the worst grade. Mr. Thomson and his family have the deep sympathy of our entire community in their sad affliction.