Gilberts: Ray Graham story has echoes of Richard Cory
Article content He ran down the stairs, out the door of the William Pitt Hotel, down Sixth Street towards the cenotaph and into McGregor’s Creek where he disappeared underneath the water. His body was recovered some 20 minutes later by the Chatham Fire Department. That, in a nutshell, is the essence of a front-page story that appeared in the Chatham Daily News on Saturday, Aug. 13, 1932. It is, without question, a very strange tale indeed. Yet when one finds out who the unfortunate victim was, it takes on an even more bizarre and tragic pallor. We apologize, but this video has failed to loa...