Connecticut western news., 1886-01-06
NEARLY .SMOTHERED BY GAS.
Diasress of . Clergyman over the Cor
 ltsion of the Girl He was to Marry.

Dissress of . Clergyman over the Con. dision of the Girl He was to Marry.
 The Rev Andrew Grey, pastor of the Millerton, N. Y., Presbyterian church, arrived in this city on Thursday expect ing to meet Miss Rachel A. Nicholson, of Fox Harbor, Nova Scotia, to whom he was to be married immediately upon her arrival. Their plan was to spend few days in this city and return to Mill lerton by Tuesday next. Miss Nichol- son yesterday was in the New York hos pital with slight chances of recovery. In the Thirtieth Street Police station. where Mir Grey had gone to explain the case to Captain Williams, he told a re- porter his story.
 Miss Nicholson is twenty-two years l old, he said, and like myself native of Nova Scotia. We have known each other four or five years and were en- gagged to be married. I came here to wait for her on Thursday and yesterday Miss Nicholson arrived by the New York express train from Boston, according to arrangement. She was very tired and I took her over to the Hotel Abbotsford, at No. 660 Sixth avenue, where I had put myself up the previous night She was to rest there until today, when we would go down town together and get married, probably by Dr Cuyler. We had not yet made up our minds as to that. My room was the only large room vacant in the hotel and gave it up to her, taking one on the lower floor myself We chatted together and were happy until II o'clock, when she retlr- ed. I had promised to call her at 9 this morning. She did not answer when I knocked, and became alarmed and called the clerk. We opened the transom and found the room full of gas. Then we burst open the door. Miss Nicholson was lying in her bed sense less. She had been nearly smothered in her sleep. One of the burners was probably turned on. I did not notice in my distress and bewilderment; but suppose she either blew the gas out or accidentally turned it partly on again after turning it off We called doctors and by their advice she was at once re- moved to the New York hospital in an ambulance and everything is now being done to save her life. We were to have been married today and would return to Millerton by Tuesday. Miss Nicholson is the daughter of farmer at Sag Har- bor. Both her parents are dead.
 MT Grey was exceedingly nervous and seemed dazed by the shock that he had sustained. He IS a young man. At the hospital 1t was said that there was some hope of Miss Nicholson's s recovery, though she was still in extreme danger She had recovered once sufficiently to tell her name, but relapsed into uncon- sciousness agaiu.-New Fork Tribune, Jan. 3.
 The following dispatch dated New York Jan. is published by The Hart ford Evening Post Miss Rachel Mich olson, the young Canadian girl of Fox Harbor. N. S., who came to town on Friday to be married to Rev Andrew Grey of Millerton, and was found almost poisoned by escaping Illuminating gas in her room in the Abbotsford, on Sixth avenue, on Saturday morning, was pro- nounced out of danger at the New York hospital yesterday. Sine had so far re- coverd in the afternoon as to be able to recognize MT Grey and talk little to him. She could only talk in monosyl
 fables though, and the doctors and she
 would not be able to converse connect
 edly until today. MT Grey was very
 happy when the doctors told hlm tha
 his sweetheart was out of danger. He , said that he would marry her and take her to his Millerton home just as soon al the doctors pron ounced her fully recov
 cred"