Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-01
nrzafarious Deafl,.

Mxs LuIu Thompson Dies at Kingss
 Hotel, GhHs city, Umder C1rcumseances
 that Render an AntOpsy and COrOner's
 Investigation NeeessAry-N0 Verdict
 Ket Reached-Evtdence of Poisoning
 Sand to be Found.
 Mrs. Lulu Thompson, Q woman of diaso- lute character. died yesterday morning at an early hour ct King's Hotel on Chapel street near the New. Haven Opera House. Yesterday morn ing about 8 o'clock man called upon pr. Skih for 2 burial permit, stating that woman had died at Kings Hotel. The per init was refused and word was sent to Coro- ner Bollman to investigate the matter. He visited the hotel and was shown into room No. IF, where he found the dead woman lying upon the bed. She was apparently about thirty years old, was Q blonde with blue eyes and light yellow hair. Her fea- lures were regular, but the pallor of death made. her light skin look uncanny, and there were lines about the eyes that showed too plainly the hard life the woman had led.
 The facts about the woman's career are about as follows She was the daughter of Landlord Warehouse, who five years ago k6pG tue NOEWAtk dOec1 Ut NOTWhAK. It 1H said that she was highly educated. She mar ried Charles Thompson and one child came to bless their union. Their life was happy for time, but strong appetite for drink soon developed in Mrs. Thompson and ultimately 1t led to their separation. paoPars peo%pson as aGT vfs keeps ,s. tSs hSs d p vorce drifted about from place to place She came to New Haven last May and obs. tained situation as ohambermaid at the At, lantic House. While there she was in the habit of drinking excessively and kept her bottle in her room all the time. She was dismissed in July. She then went to Bridge port, but returned here short time ago. Last Saturday she fell in with Albert Merrick Joy, barkeeper at the Grand Union Hotel in this oity. Joys parents live in Northamp- ton and he is twenty. five years of age. He went to Kings Hotel with the Thompson woman last Sunday and they lived together there as man and wife. She was sick for two or three days according to Joys story.
 The circumstances of the case were such that an investigation was deemed necessary Dr. Moses c. White was summoned The body of the dead woman was taken to the almshouse morguc where Dr. White held an autopsy. He did not finish it last night, and so was unwilling to state the result of his in vestigations or his theory or belief as to the facts of the case. He would not say wheth- CT alcoholism or poisoning or anything else in fact caused the death. But it was learned on good authority that the doctor found un- mistakable evidences of poisoning. There was great deal of fatty matter about the heart, but that need not indicate any thing be- yond the fact that she had been thigh liver" Dr. White will finish his autopsy to- day. Coroner Bollman last night examined at his office Dr. Skif Mrs. King, the pro prietress of the hotel, Mrs. Miner, her as- sistant Mrs. Woolworth and Mrs. Simpton, who occupied the room next to the one that Joy and Mrs. Thompson had. The nature of the testimony was not at all of startling character, and it is not likely that anything will be developed. The witnesses testified to the coming and actions of the pair while there. It could not be learned that they were on any but the best of terms Joy registered at the Union House as Merrick. He will not be arresksd unless further deveI- opments furnish stronger case against him than has been brought out already. He was about the city as usual last evening, but was part of the time accompanied by policeman Dr. Skif says that when Joy called yesterday morning to ask about the burial permit he exhibited 8 remarkable nonchaIance and treated the affair as an ordinary occurrence. He told the doctor that the woman's father would be in town yesterday, but it could not be aseertained last night that he had arrived.