New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-03
PROFESSOR BOTTA'S FALL.
FROM A THIRD-STORY WINDOW TO
THE GROUND.

HE WAS UNABLE YESTERDAY TO TELL HOW
TIE ACCIDENT HAPPENED-HIs IN
JrRIEs MAY RESULT FATALLY.
The many friends OF Professor vincenzo Botta, OF
No q West Thirty -seventh-st.. were shocked yes
tardav at the announcement that he had met
probably fatal accident by falling from the third-
story back window of his house TO the pavement
distance of about thirty feet. yesterday morning at
about 3 o'clock. on account OF Professor bo'ta
age and increasing bodily nirmitles 1t Is feared
his Injuries will prove fatal While ne was con-
scious at intervals yesterday he was so weak tha'
he could not tell how the accident occurred
Mr. Rotta who weighs about 2iO pounds. dined
late with a friend on Monday night, ana pade MS
friend good night about midnight.
He was discovered by j. Scott Boyd, jr., who lives
almost directly in the rear at No West lhlrty-
erhth-st. soon after 3 o'clock, lying in the back
ward Mr. Boyd told the story OF finding MI
Botta to a Tribune reporter yesterday About >
o'clock said he Il was awakened out or sound
sleep by a crash upon a tin roof hstehen' o".
didn't hear anything at once, except an occas'o'io
groan | thought there were thieves around ana
got up and looked out the back window. was
about to turn away and so back to bed when
noticed a white object on the narrow roof or
hov window built out from the rear of Professor
Botta's basement dining room The object didh
move and prepared to go back to bed, put went
again 10 the window, and noticed that the OBJECT
had apparently disappeared. heard sroahs, ana
started TO Investigate. 1t was some time oeiore
found a policeman, and when l told him ABOUT
the groans ne laughed at me. | hnaiiy got WV
policemen help me. and W, went 70 PROFESSOR
Botta's and rang up the housekeeper. MISS Lyhch
and the servants. Going TO the back yard We iouhu
Professor Botta lying nsensibe in pool OF pioou
the tagging near the sub-basement steps ~"
ambulance was summoned from the New-forK
Hospital. The surgeon said that Professor Botta
badly injured by having four ribs proKeh' HIS
right ankle fractured and a cut on his head
Professor Botta's housekeeper refused TO aHo"
him 10 be removed to the hospital, ana so we
carried him upstairs to his room Dr. GILBERT VINO
lives door to Professor Botta, was also caieu
in. and said he did not think the professor couiu
1t was difficult Yesterday to get particulars con-
corning Professor BotaS condition AdH tla,ce
10 the house was denied TO everybody and Miss
Lynch. the housekeepcr, niece OF MIS- botta
simplest questions concerning MIN. one or two OF
the injured mans intimate friends sad he nad
gone - the window while enduring intense pain
and fallen out. one OF the policemen, John rhomp-
found Mr Botta said that ne in his night
dress and had trousers and pair Of slippers on
s tsii was broken nfeen feet down by roof
of the bay window or probably he Would nave pen
Professor rotta + well known in educational ana
literary circles Wher a Young man he came 10
teacher Of languages In the University Of the city
of New-York. lie has been a member OF the Union
League club since 1868. and Is at present one OF
its yce- presidents. H. t. wealthy. His VIE died
in 1891. Sne Miss Arre Lynch. highly educated
and well known In literary circles. Tho nome or
Mr. and Mrs Botta was a gatnerlrS-placc Tor
literary people. and there is hardly an American
author Of celebrity who has not AZ some time Deen
entertained under their hospiable roof Mrs. Botta :
death was Il great blow to her husband. Time
seemed to drag heavily with him and ne has OF late
been very respondent AZ times AFTER the
death II Mrs. Botta he published a good-slzed vol
ume entitled: Memoirs " Anna c. l.. Botia with
Recollcclors by Her Friends" Among we.l-knowA
authors who contributed to this work are found
the names OF Grace Greenwood. Parke Goodwin
julia ward Howe Andrew u. White. lanes \.
Frouie Moncure n. Conway. Justin Mccarthy,
charles Dudley Warner. Edmund G. Stelman Mary
Map-s Dodge Kate Field Andrew Carnegie ana
John Bigelow. There are also resolutions by the
"wednesday Afternoon club
Professor Botta has lived AZ No . West Thirty
sevcntn-st. for twenty years. Recently he an
nounced to his intimate friends his dcsre 10 sell
his house AMI 60 - Italy. He tried To sell Il. but
was unsuccessful because Of the price asked.
At oclock last night the injured man VAS resting
quietly Or. Guernsey. the family physician, and
Dr Haluuth attended him They dld not speak
encoura giugly of his condition. His left ribs were
broken M y Lynch the housekeeler. was seen last
nigh. She could nor throw any light upon the
cause Of Professor Bottas accident She said the
doctors considered her patients age much against
I him