Arthur Clayton Armacost
Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 21 May 1900, page 6
BODY FOUND IN RIVER
The mysterious disappearance of Arthur Clayton Armacost, the well
known commission merchant and senior member of the firm of Armacost, Riley & Co,
doing business at 111 East Front Street, was cleared up last evening by the
finding of his body at Brown's coal harbor, a short distance above Dayton, on
the Kentucky side of the river, by two fishermen, Nehemiah Grapevine and James
Bell. The coat, vest, hat collar and tie were missing.
They notified Morris Flatow, a member of the firm who resides in Bellevue and Lewis Eisenschmidt and John Opp, neighbors and friends of the deceased. The latter positively identified the body. Coroner Higgins was sent for, after which the body was placed in a rowboat, taken to Newport and delivered to an undertaker.
Armacost left his home in the Highlands Thursday evening about 9 o'clock. His wife had gone into the house to retire, leaving Armacost sitting on the front porch in his shirt sleeves. As she went in he remarked that he would be in shortly. Ten minutes elapsed and she went out on the porch again, only to find that her husband had disappeared. From that time until last evening no trace of the missing man could be discovered, although searching parties were organized and the surrounding country were gone over;
Mr. Armacost had been ailing for sometime and last week, while on a visit to his father, who was ill at Laurel, Ohio, he jumped from the steamer Bonanza, and was then supposed to have drowned. He swam to shore and walked up to Palestine Ohio later turning up at his home. He had often told his friends that life was a burden to him. Mr. Armacost carried life insurance amounting to $17,000.
He leaves a widow and four children. The body will be shipped to the home of his father, at Laurel Ohio for burial