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

Louis A. Morganthal, an Englishman.
supposed to lie a Wall street specuiator
and wealthy, was found lead 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 twanty-nine years of g of slight
build and light complexion. rented q suit
OF rooms In the swell 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 il
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 Its content to his friends It
soon got about the hotel that Mr.. Nor
~ganthars business was in Wall street.
The telegram read:
Dear. All is we'll: made one hundred
on Electric"
The message wal dated from the Stock
Exchange.
The couple seemed to have no frienda
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 he is in h city at the Hotel Bar
tholdi.
Mrs. Morganthal celebrated her twenty
second birthday yesterday. This was
known because she told II to the clerk
or the house. n said she and her hus-
band were going to the theatre in the
AT $50 o'clock a telegram reached the
Graham House for Mrs. Morganthai, and
IN mat mysterious way that news
s Mr siors a 6eli5oy soon understood that
his wife to the theatre.
Ihe wife remained indoors until $50
O'clock. when a caller. supposed to be
MT. Noeltz. arrived. and the two went
At $50 o'clock Mr.. MorganthaI entered
me mouse. He seemed to be slightly In
t9xicated, and was in a laxative mood.
nave a drink. with several others.
He said his wife was the best woman
IN b bne world that she possessed fI6o,ooo
been In America five weeks. and that he
was a wine merchant of London.
AT III O'Clock he retired. That was the
last he was seen alive.
The wife returned at 1 o'clock. Her
companion left her at the door. She
went upstairs in the elevator. A minute
later: before the elevator had reached the
rang through the halls Of the hotel.
Young Graham and Night Clerk Ernest
cianss hurried up the third floor.
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
finger at the ~lifeless body of her husband'
lie sat In an easy chair before a mirror.
In his right hand was a 22-caiibre revolt
In the mans right temple there was a
his brain.
Mrs. Morganthal was led to the ladies.
clan and the police were sent for.
The doctor arrived first. He was DR..
Fl Il, j. H. paimsr Of 1913 Lexington avenue;
been dead for an hour.
10 Policeman Louis Frank Mrs. Nor
ganthal refused to say anything, even
so much as to tell her husbands busi-
Roundsman White tried 1t next. but
Jared no better. When the police were
out OF the parlor Mrs. Morganthal said:
She only said 1t once. in a mild, un-
emphatic way. Then she would not
explain the remark.
The Morganthals ave been married
Two years, 1t is said. They have no
At the Hotel Bartholdi 1t was said
Mr., Noeltz. there, The clerk did not
know whether he was in his room or
not, as he always kept his key, but
s sometimes rdts IS rs wnn,G away at night: AZ
whether or not he was in the house.
Ernest Clauss, the night clerk. said,
later, that he was on duty when Mrs.
she said she had been to Roster &
Balls. AS he entered the apartment. to
which her. screams had attracted him,
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 soone perhaps her hus-
band would have lived.
She absolutely refused to see reporters
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 S of no reason Why her nus.
comfortably Off financially, and his
was a wealthy wire dealer In
She said she was a daughter of Louis
the London diamond man, who
a fortune from the famous KIM
berley diamond mines in Africa.
Coroner McKenna said that from the
OF Mrs. Morganthal made to
him and from the position OF the body.
thought 1t was a case Of suicide.
Mrs. M~organthal's brother, who was at
he hotel with them, said to an Evening
reporter that Morganthal was
not the man TO Kill himself Intentionally.
never carried a revolver until yester-
lay. He advances the theory OF ac-
revolver when II went OF. Why he
should select a position Immediately In