Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-25
SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT.
a Guest at the Mt. Vernon Hotel Found
Dead In HIS Bed

Dead In HIS Bed.
TIE GAS WAS TURNED ON AND TIE DOOR AN,
WINDOW cLosrp--rHx CORONER THINKS XII
DIED zRoa A NARCOTIC -AEEx TO ISDuc1
E-ErR- PAPERS FOUND.
Coroner Patterson vas summoned to tn,
NoEni Vernon Hotel this afternoon 20 invest:
gate the death of ono of the guests, whose doat
BODY wis found in room "a ebou: noon. Til.
man had been at the hotel since Tuesday. III,
registered as A. II. Gage, Green BAY, Wis. II,
was apparently forty-fve or Fifty years Old ar;
was very quiet, having but littlo to say to thost
about the hotel
In conversation with one Of the clerks HI
stated that he was head clerk Of the Beaumont
Ho:el, Ia Green Bsy, and was here OH n visit tc
his son. He stated that he had been stopping
with bis son, but as no did net ike to sleep two
In bed he had decided to stop at the hotel
Yesterday morning he found sitting at q
window an upper goor. and being III the
ebambsrDiaid's way he was asked TO return Il
the hoor on which his room was located. In
explanation Of his being on that floor he said
be wanted to get some fresh air.
GOT SOMETHING TO MAKE HIa sLEEP.
Last evening he returned TO the hotel and
went 10 his room. About ii O'Clock he came
drug store To got something 70 make him sheep.
He wezt 10 tho store add returned in 4 few
minutes. When he returned he spoke pleas
anty 20 the clerk and then went on upstairs to
his room
When tic clerk wen: through the halls at
ls45 an he noticed light III Cages room.
but when he made his rounds two hours later
tbs light had been extinguished anu not a
soand was to he heard in the room.
just before leaving tho clerk the last time
tEo guest was seen nli.e he made a request that
he be rot disturbed even * any one should call
20 STE him and that was tlis reason his failure
to appear ut tie breakfast table was not
noticed.
Shortly before noon the housckeeper discov-
e.ad the smell Of gas in the hail and i. took her
bat q few minutes to discover that the gas was
escaping from roou a.
YoCSp DEAD N EFD.
The proprietor notiicd and when he
broke opsa the door he discovered tho man 8
dead body lying in the bed. he looked more
as IL he was sleeping than he did like dead
man. His hair had been cut and his face
shaved ard his arms we're crossed as though he
had prepared himself for death.
The window hai been closed, and the tran
som was also shut. and there was full head OF
gas coming from the gas iot that had boon left
turned on.
other than these conditions there was nothing
20 indicate that the dead man had committed
suicide. and tho coroner expressed the belief
tina. death resulted from The narcotic taken to
make the man sleep, and it was his opinion
that death was the result Of accident rather
than Of any such intention on the part o! the
deceased.
BELONGED TO MANY oRDERs
In the room were found papers and letters
indicating that he was a member Of the Ma
sonic order rs well as an Odd Fellow and
knight of PythIas- He was a member of the
Old Fellows Relief Association, as assessment.
notices were among his effects.
From papers found on him he evidently had
q bank account in tine Central National Bank,
and had drawn small sums from there during
the past few days
He had in his vest pocket. which was fornd
beneath his pillow. a handsome gold watch and
chain, TO which was attached a Masonic en-
blem. and there also small amount of
money In the pockets The police are making
inquiries concerning the son Of the deceased.
This Is the fourth man within year who
has been found in the Mount Vernon Hotel
dead, with the gas turned on.