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

Louis A. Morganthal, an Englishman,
supposed to be a Wall street speculator
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, whs
was t~wcnty-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 E,ighty-ninth
street and Madison avenue.
Mrs. Minnie Morganthal attracted i'm
mediate attention in the house. She Is
d sweet-faced woman. with a mass Of
black fluffy ha.f.
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 Mr.. Nor
ganthals business was in Wall street.
The telegram read:
Dear. All is well; made one hundred
on Electric"
The message was dated from the Stock
Exchange.
The couple seemed to have no friends
or callers outside Of one gentleman. A
guest in the house said he recognized this
caller as q Mr.. Noelts, an English cap-
~italist, who makes his home the little
time he Is in the city at the Hotel Bar
tholdi.
Mrs. M~organthal celebrated her twenty
second birthday yesterday. This was
known because she told 1t to the clerk
OF the house. and said she and her hus-
band were going to the theatre in the
At $50 o'clock a telegram reached the
IN that mysterious way that news
s mr. Msrg a 6abliSoy SO soon n, understood that
his wife to the theatre.
The wife remained indoors until $50
ocloek. when a, caller, supposed to b.
MT Noeltz. arrived. n the two went
At $50 o'clock Mr.. Morganthal entered
me house. He seemed to be slightly In
t 1s and was In q laxative mood.
have a drink, with several others.
He said his wife a the best woman
IN n t me world; that she possessed f16o.OoO
been In America five weeks. and that he
was a wine merchant of London.
AZ II o'clock he retired. That was the
last ne 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
'! TSs door Of up Pb the M Third floor; .,,,,
stood Mrs. M%organthai.
There was a look of horror on her
finger 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 a
small hole. where a bullet had entered
Mrs. Morganthal was led to the ladies'
clan and the police We're sent for.
lhe doctor arrived first. He was DIR.
r; ). Palmer, of l3+3 Lexington avenue.
been dead for an hour.
TO Policeman Louis Frank Mrs. Nor
ganthal refused to say anything. even
ness.
Roundsman White tried 1t next, but
Jared no better. When the police were
MY husband has been murdered"
She only said 1t once, in a mild, un-
emphatic, way. Then she would not
SABihili Nllt ltIIldIh.
The Morganthals have been married
two years, 1t is said. They have no
At the Hotel Bartholdi 1t 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
any rate he would make no effort to see
whether or not he was In the house.
Ernest Clauss, the night clerk. said,
a Z TIM hA uTn0 m 1aUfk Nh@- H.
M~organthal returned from the theatre.
she said she had been to Roster &
Balls. A he entered the apartment, to
she pointed to the figure of her dead hus-
oand and exclaimed: My husband is
He led her from the room, and in the
hall she remarked that H. she had re-
turned an hour sooner perhaps her hus-
band would have lived.
She absolutely refused TO see reporters
to-day. She sent out a message that IL
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
band should commit suicide. He was
comfortably of financially, and his
father was a wealthy wire dealer in
She said she was a daughter of Louis
Rientzen, the London diamond man, who
amassed a fortune from the famous KIM
berley diamond mines in Africa.
Coroner McKenna said that from the
statement OF Mrs. Morganthal made TO
him and from the position OF the body.
he thought II was a case OF suicide.
Mrs. Morganthal's brother, who was at
the hotel with them. said to ar Evening
World" reporter hat Morganthal was
not the man to Kill himself Intentionally.
He never carried a revolver until yester-
day. He advances the theory of ac-
cident; that the mar was examining the
revolver when It went on; Why ne