Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-30
1DErrIF1BD AS MRS. CARROLL.

A Lady Suddenly Expires in a Fair
 Haven Horse Car-TvidOvv of the Late
 Captain Carroll of mIddIetOwn.
 Saturday evening at 9:45 as car No. 43 of
 the Fair Haven and Westvil1e horse railroad,
 in charge of Conductor Lorenzo O. Strick-
 land, on its way to Fair Haven passed the
 corner of Bright street startling shriek
 arose from the inside and Conductor Strick-
 land looking in an astonishing sight met his
 gaze. The body of woman lay in the
 aisle. Thinking that she had suddenly been
 stricken with fit he stopped the car in front of Dr. O.: B. Adams house and carried the lady into the doctors office, where an ex- animation was made and it was discovered that the lady was dead, heart disease being the cause. Who the unfortunate lady was no one appeared to know. The remains lay l in Dr. Adams office up to o'clock @. n. | awaiting Identification. All that was known at that time was that she had got on the car at the corner of Olive street and car | ried three bundles which contained @ | tenderloin steak, Q few pieces of calico | such as are used in making hedquilts, and . | little boys toboggan cap. No marks were ! found upon her clothing whereby she could | be identified. The victim was about fifty 1 five years of age. She was of tall slim form l and wore @ dress of dark gray material and ! a long dark brown Newmarket cloak. She \ also wore a black felt hat trimmed with black velvet with two dark brown feathers | and two small colored feathers in front and | upon her hands 8 pair of black worsted | gloves. At an early hour in the morning, \ about o'clock, the remains were taken to H. w. Crawford & Sons undertaking es- | tablishment, where they lay until 1O:45 o'clock before being identified as the remains of Mrs. Cornelia Carroll, of 80 Woolsey street. The way she was identified came about as follows:
 It seems that Mrs. Carroll came in to the | city Saturday afternoon to visit Mrs. Ralph Davis of No. 645 State street, and stayed with her until about 9 o'clock when she | started for her home. While there Mrs. Davis gave her some pieces of calico for a | bedquilt that she was making. Upon read- I ing the account of lady's death in Fair Haven horse car in yesterdays paper, she | noticed that the lady had several peices of | calico in small bundle, so that she thought ! it might possibly be Mrs. Carroll, who had | visited her the afternoon before. She ac- ! cordingly went to Messrs. Crawford & Sons ! establishment and identified the remains as | those of her friend Mrs. Carroll.
 Mrs. Cornelia Carroll was the wife of the I late Captain John Carroll of Middletown and formerly resided in that town. She leaves one ! son, who is commercial traveller and resides ! in kiddletown, also brother-in-law in the
 same town. MT. Crawford notified her son in Middletown yesterday noon of Mrs. Car
 rolls death, and at his request the remains were sent to him at Midd1etown on the o'clock express yesterday afternoon.
 The reason she was not missed by the peo- pie living in the house with her was because they thought Mrs. Davis had persuaded her to remain with her over night on account of it being such a cold night. Mrs. Carroll kept house by herself, living alone. Hundreds of people visited Crawford & Sons yesterday to
 see the remains with view to identifying them.