Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-09
FOUND IN THE RUINS.

MT. Townsend,s Remains Identified at the New York Morgue-He Was . Prominent odd Fellow-Carried
 Policies Worth $S, S,OOO-For Twenty
 Years in the Ceal Bu usiness-Leaves
 Three Children.
 The report that MT. A. A. Townsend of this city was burned in the Hotel Royal Sunday morning was confirmed yesterday. MT. Townsend had put on over his night- shirt his trousers and vest, containing a l bunch of keys bearing his name and a gold watch and chain and emblem. His body 1 was found about o'clock yesterday morn ing and carried to the morgue. In the afternoon MT. J. M. Schroeder, the coal dealer on Chapel street, this city, who was in Now York, went to view the remains, and he sent the following telegram to MT. Sanderson of this city:
 L. sanderson, State street. New Haven: identify charm, Roy and trousers. Send some. J. M SCHROEDER The dispatch was received at 4:30 p. m. yesterday and soon afterward ex-Assessor R. E. Baldwin, brother Odd Fellow, left for New York to prove and identify the remains, which will no doubt be suficient and the body will be forwarded here to- day.
 MT. Townsend, who is prominent Odd Fellow in this city, went with Henry 0. Goodwin of the city market, and Walter H. Larkins of the E. Larkins & Sons company of Elm street, as delegates to the National Fraternal circle which was hold ing an annual meeting in Baltimore. Af- | ter attending the convention they went to- gether to Washington on Friday afternoon to visit several ofthe places of interest there. MT. Townsend parted from them in the afternoon ss he intended to stay over Sun day in New York to see the city, and in particular to visit some of the churches there. By accident he went to the Hotel Royal.
 MT. Townsend has been @ prominent coal merchant here for twenty years, for | the first seven years under the firm name | of Townsend & Briggs, and later doing l business for himself. Last October he 1 sold his business to MT. Sanderson, but in tended to remain as manager of the coal l office. He was forty-fve years old and
 leaves wife and three children, boy of fourteen years, girl twelve, and another
 boy nine. He lives at 53 Shelton avenue
 and has always done business in IA Church street.
 l he ~6S luSuIcO lOT ?S,UOO III tuo Ouu
 Fellows, 5000 in the Knights of Honor
 and held an endowment policy for $1 ,5O0
 in the Fraternal Circle, which his wife
 may keep up if she wishes. Before he
 left for his southern trip he took out an
 accident policy for one week in the Tray
 eller's. The ticket was good till last night
 and was for 5000 A year ago he re-
 ceived $1 ,000 from an endowment order.
 He leaves many friends here who are | oh ohado of ter
 but the saddest part is borne by his wife
 and children who saw him depart few
 days ago in good health and bright spirits.
 Police Captain Cross was also among the l visitors to the morgue. He was quite sure
 that he recognized the face of No. 3. He
 promised to send an officer who would be
 likely to know whether it was the person
 he suspected. Later two stylishly dressed
 women came and looked at the boy. The
 elder of the two, of handsome and some
 what dissipated appearance, said she was
 the proprietress of an establishment, the
 locality of which she did not care to dis
 close.
 MT. Levy, who was lost at the fire called
 at her house Saturday, she said, and took
 one of the inmates to the theater The girl probably went with Levy to the hotel She was called "Kitty." The women could not find her body at tho morgue. Samuel Cherley, bell boy at the Hotel Royal, looked at the bodies and thought
 the one in box No. 1 was that of Mrs
 Lewis, the bookmaker's wife. He recog-
 nized the short curly hair. He believed l No. to be that of her husband, as the features were similar and the shirt was
 like one he had often seen Lewis wear H. also asserted positively that he met Mrs
 Cora Henderson of Denver, Col, on Sun a day night in drug store a few block
 further up the avenue from the hotel MT Henderson has been reported as among thu
 missing.
 8 Mrs. Mccarthy called with Miss Bridge : Begley and was quite certain No. 9 wal
 the body of Housekeeper Begley. The false teeth of the deceased corresponded
 she thought, with those of Mrs. Begley t ! and shs went off to bring the dentist t verify their make.
 Thomas White of Orange, N. J., came /; to look after his brother Charles, also O. Orange.
 Julius Ryan was in quest of his sister <; Kate, who was employed in the hote kitchen.
 Another New Haven Victim Reported Among the missing at @ late hour yester r day afternoon was Mrs. Justin Fredericl , of New Haven. Her name is not to | found in the directory and persons of tha ; name in town report no one missing iron :; l here of that name as far as they know.
 Death of M rs. Lfefeld.