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 R~eturnino
from Roster & BiaHs.
Mystery Behind a Supposed Suicide
at the Graham House.

Louis A. Morganthal. an Englishman.
supposed to he a Wall street Speculation
and wealthy, wa 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.. MorganthaI, who
was twenty-nine years of age, of slight
build and light complexion. rented q suit
OF rooms in the swell Graham House, on
the southeast corner of r~.ighty-ninth
street and Madison avenue.
Mrs. Minnie Morganthai attracted i'm
mediate attention in the house. She In
a sweet-faced woman, with a mass of
black fluffy 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 Its content. to his friends IL
soon got about the hotel that AIR. Nor,
ganthai,s busines was in Wall street.
Dear: All Is well; made one hundred
on Electric"
The message was dated fran the Stock
The couple seemed to have 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
tholdi. --
Mrs. Morganthal celebrated her twenty.
second birthday yesterday. This was
known because she told 1t to the clerk
or the house. and said she and her hus-
band were going to the theatre In the
AZ $50 o'clock a telegram reached the
Graham House for Mrs. Morganthal. and
In that mysterious way that news
spreads a bellboy soon understood that
Mr.. Morganthal was not to
his wife to the theatre.
The wife remained indoors until $50
o'clock, when a caller. supposed TO be
out.
At $50 o'clock Mr.. MorganthaI entered
the mouse. He seemed to be slightly in
he invited Proprietor Graham's son to
have a drink, with several others.
He said his wife was the best woman
in her W right; that the two had only
been In America five weeks, and that ia
was a wine merchant OF London.
Al II O'Clock he retired. That 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
rang through the halls of the hotel.
Young Graham and Night Clerk Ernest
Ciauss 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
g at the lifeless body of her husband.
He sat In an easy chair before a mirror.
IN his right hand was a 22-calibre revolt
In the mans right temple there was q
small hole. where a bullet had entered
his brain.
Mrs. Morganthal was led to the ladies'
parlor on the first floor. Then a physi-
clan and the police were sent for.
tn 1 eoGtor arrived first; He was DR..
All he could say vas hat the man had
been dead for ar hour.
To Policeman Louis Frank Mrs. Nor
50 much as to tell her husband's bust
ness.
Roundsman White tried it next, but
Jared no better. When the police were
OUT OF the parlor Mrs. Morganthal said:
SSMy husband has been murdered"
Sns MY said Il once, in o mild. un.
explain the remark.
The Morganthals have been married
TIVE years. it is sad. They nave no
A. the Hotel .Bartholdi it was said
Mr.. Noeltz there. The clerk did not
hHoW WHttner ne was IN MS 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,
later, that he was on duty when Mrs.
Morganthal returned from the theatre.
She said she had been to Roster g.
Balls. AS he entered the apartment, to
which her screams had attracted him.
she pointed TO the figure OF her dead hus-
pand and exclaimed: My husband Il
killed"
lie led her from the room, and in the
hall she remarked that II she had re-
turned an hour sooner perhaps her nus
band would have lived.
She absolutely refused to see reporters
to-day. She sent out a message that II
ing her to apply at the Somerset House,
London, where her record would be
found
Coroner McKenna, who was at the hotel
any statement from her. She finally
said she knew OF no reason why her hus-
band should commit suicide. He was
comfortably OFF financially, and his
Londo
She said she was a daughter of Louis
Rientzen, the London diamond man, who
amassed a fortune from the famous KIM
berly diamond mines In Africa,
Coroner McKenna said that. from the
statement. OF Mrs. Morganthal made to
he thought it was a case OF suicide.
Mrs. Morganthal's brother, who was. at
the hotel with them. said 10 an Evening
World" reporter that Morganthal was
He never carried a revolver until yester-
lay. He advances the theory OF ac-
cldent; that the man was examining the
.SSaIS select %aen a d posI Ts%t ,% GTi MsE i iss
front OF a mirror to examine the weapon
was not explained.