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 & Balls.
Mystery Behind a Supposed Suicide
at the Graham House.

] Louis A. Morganthal, an Englishman,
\ supposed to lie a Wall street Spectator
and wealthy, was found dead in his
APARTMENTS In the Graham House at |
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 twanty-nire years Of age. Of slight
build and light complexion, rented a suit
Of rooms in the S yell Graham House, on
the southeast corner of E%ighty-ninth
street and Madison avenue.
Mrs. Minnie Morganthal attracted i'm
mediate attention in the house. She Is
4 sweet-faced woman, with a mass OF
black fluffy hair.
The two seemed to live happily together.
They were a silent couple. Mr.. Nor
ganthal's business was in Wall street.
The couple seemed to have no friends
or callers outside of one gentleman, a
Mr.. Noeltz, an English capitalist. who
makes his home at the Hotel Barthold!.
Mrs. Morganthal celebrated her twenty
second birthday yesterday, and remained
indoors until $50 O'Clock, when a caller,
supposed to be Mr.. Noetz, arrived, and
the two went out.
At $50 o'clock Mr.. Morganthal entered
the house. He seemed to be slightly in
toxicated, and was in a. talkative mood.
He said his wife was the best woman
in the world; that she possessed flGO. 600
in her own right: that the two had only
been in America five weeks, and that he
was a win merchant of london.
At II o'clock he retired. Tha was the
last he was seen alive.
The wife returned at / o'clock. Her
companion left her at the door. She
went upstairs in the elevator. A minute
later, before the elevator had reached the
ground foor again., II piercing scream
rang through the halls of the hotel.
Young Graham and Night clerk Ernest
Clauss hurried up the third floor;
The door of the Morganthal apart-
ments was open. Just inside the room
stood Mrs. Morganthal.
There, was a look of horror on her
face. She stood rigid and pointed one
He sat in an easy chair before a mirror.
In his right hand was a 22-calibre revolt
yer.
In the mans right temple there was a
small hole. where Il bullet had entered
his brain.
Mrs. Morganthal was led to the ladies'
clan and the police We're sent for.
The doctor arrived first. He was DR..
T; J. Palmer, Of l34S Lexington avenue;
been dead for an hour.
To Policeman Louis Frank Mrs. Nor
Banthal refused to say anything. even
SO much as to tell her husbands bust
Roundsman White tried it next, but
Jared no better. When the police We're
out or the parlor Mrs. Morganthal said:
, My husband has been murdered"
: She only said it once, in a mild, un-
emphatic way. hen she would not
explain the remark.
The Morganthals have been married
two years. it is said. They have no
At the Hotel Bartholdi it was said
early this morning that there was a
MT. .Noeltz there. The clerk did not
SknoW whether he was in his room or
mot, as, he always kept his key. but
\sosretinrcs remained away at night. At
any rate, he would make no effort to see
I whether or not he was in the house.
! Coroner Mckenna, who was at the hotel
l early, had great difficulty in obtaining
1 any statement from her. She finally
said she knew Of 40 reason why her hus-
| band should commit suicide. lie was
: comfortably off financially, and his
father was a wealthy wire dealer in
London.
Rientzen, the London diamond man, who
amassed n fortune from the famous Kim
berIey diamond mines in Africa.
Coroner Mckei1na said that from the
Statement. OF Mrs. Morg anthal made to
him and from the position of the body.
he thought it was n case Of suicide.
Mrs. MorEanthal's brother. who was at
the hotel with them, advances the theory
of accident: that the man was examining
the revolver when it went off. Why he
should select a position Immediately in
front OF a mirror to examine the weapon
was not explained.