Newton, May 17—Henry Vanstory, proprietor of the Cleveland Springs Hotel near Shelby, committed suicide this afternoon about 4:30 o’clock, six miles from Newton, near the Bost school house. Sheriff George F. Bost was notified and left at once for the scene accompanied by the coroner and county physician. The man was dead when the officers arrived. It was decided that an inquest was unnecessary as it was a plan case of suicide.
Mr. Vanstory, accompanied by his wife, two children and a colored chauffeur, arrived at his farm at about 4 o’clock. He got out of the car and went to the rear of a small house of the farm occupied by negroes. No one was at home at the time. He cut a small limb from a peach tree, went into the house and got down a single-barreled shot gun from a rack, placed the gun on the floor in the corner of the room, and pushed the trigger with the limb.
The entire load entered his right eye and came out at the top of his head, causing instant death. On the body of the deceased was found a Col’s pistol and several cartridges.
Mr. Vanstory is survived by his wife and three children, his mother and one brother. He was well known in Newton, where he was proprietor of the Virginia Shipp Hotel several years ago. The news of the tragedy came as a shock to his many friends in this city. Mrs. Vanstory and children went to Lincolnton and sent an undertaker for the body.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, May 18, 1926
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