The evening world., 1893-12-19
DEAD IN THE CHAIR.
Louis A. Morganthal Sat Before
a Mirror in His Room.
Found by His Wife on Returning
from Roster & BiaTs.
Mystery Behind a Supposed Suicide
at the Graham House.

Louis A. Morganthal, an Englishman.
supposed to be a Wall street Spectator
and wealthy. was found dead in his
apartments in the Graham House at 1
o'clock this morning. He had a bullet
wound in his head. 1t Is supposed he
committed suicide.
One month ago Mr.. Morganthal, who
was t~wenty-nine years OF age, of slight
build and light complexion, rented a suit
Of rooms in the swell Graham House, on
the southeast corner of Eighty-ninth
street and Madison avenue.
Mrs. Minnie Morganthal attracted i'm
mediate attention in the house. She In
a sweet-faced woman, with a mass of
black fuzzy hair.
The two seemed to live happily together.
They were a silent couple, though, and
nobody about the house ever learned what
the husbands business was. A bellboy.
however, soon after their arrival, found
a telegram In the waste basket, and COM
municating It's content. to his friends II
soon got about the hotel that Mr.. Nor
g~anthals business was In Wall street.
The telegram read:
Dear: All is well; made one hundred
or Electric"
The message was dated from the Stock
The couple seemed to nave no friends
or callers outside of one gentleman A
guest In the house said he recognized this
caller as a Mr.. ,Noeltz, an English cap
italist, who makes his home the little
time ne Is In the city at the Hotel Ber-
Mrs. Morganthal celebrated her twentv-
second birthday yesterday. This was
known because she told II to the clerk
OF the house. and said she and her hus-
band were going to the theatre in the
At $40 o'clock a telegram reached the
Graham House for Mrs. Morganthal, and
spre enas my hs,ihov way that news
MT. Morganthal was not to
MIS- wife to the theatre.
o.e ans wiz, wss rem : Indoors until $50
Mr.. Noeitz. arrived, and the two went
At $40 o'clock Mr.. Morganthal entered
tIaifated, and was In q laxative mood.
ne invited Proprietor Graham's son to
hf He 8 aid aTih Fl. Wiz VIII S ssyer al Others. Sss
In the world; that she possessed flso' 900
IN her own right; that the two had only
w Deen , IN wi America five weeks. and that he
At II o'clock he retired. That was the
last he was seen alive,
co Tme T1fs ret returned at ! o'clock. Her
went upstairs in the elevator. A minute
later. before the elevator had reached the
Fang n tbro noob t again ha a piercing scream
Young Graham and Night Clerk Ernest
Cihuss hurried up the third floor.
me door Of the M%organthal apart
stood Mrs. Morganthal. ~
Ihere was a look of horror on her
snssr she stood rigid and pointed one
he sat In an easy chair before a mirror. |
In MS right hand was a 22-calibre revolt |
In tho uon,s r,uh ~
small hole, where a bullet had entered
his brain.
Mrs. Morganthal was led to the ladies'
clan and the police were sent for.
Fl Eu ! /. P SdT2e Of 1873 Lexington avenue;
been dead for an hour. ~
70 Policeman Louis Frank Mrs. Nor
gantnal refused to say anything, ever
80 much as to tell her husbands bust |
Roundsman White tried It next, but
Jared no better. When the police were |
She only said it once, in a mild. un-
emphatic way. Then she would not |
explain the remark.
The Morganthals have been married |
Two years 1t is said. They have no
At the Hotel Bartholdi II was said
early this morning that there was a
Mr.. Noeltz there. The clerk did not
know whether he was In his room or
not, as he always kept his key. but
sometimes remained away at night. Al
any rate he would make no effort to see
whether or not he was In the house.
Ernest Clauss. the night clerk, said,
Morganthal returned from the theatre.
She said she had been to Roster a
Biars. AS he entered the apartment, to
which her screams had attracted him,
she pointed to the figure of her LEAD hus.
oand and exclaimed; MY husband is
He led her from the room, and in the
hall she remarked that II she had re-
turned an hour sooner perhaps her hus-
band would nave lived.
She absolutely refused to see reporters
to-day. She sent out a message that II
they wished to know anything concern |
ing her to apply at the Somerset House,
London. where her record would be
found.
Coroner McKenna, who was at the hotel
early. had great difficulty In obtaining
any statement from her. She finally
said she knew OF no reason, why her hus-
comfortably off financially, and his
father was a wealthy wire dealer in
London.
She said she was a daughter OF Louis
amassed a fortune from the famous Kim
berley diamon mines In Africa.
statement OF Mrs. Morganthal made to
him and from the position of the body,
he thought 1t was a case OF suicide.
Mrs. Morganthals brother, who was at
World" reporter that Morganthai was
not the man to Kill himself Intentionally. |
He never carried a revolver until yester-
day. He advances the theory OF &C
revolver when II went OFF. Why he
should select a position Immediately In
front of a mirror to examine the weapon
was not explained.
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