The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-06
JOHN CREAHAN
SUFFOCATED BY GAS
COroner's Jury Said That II Was q Case
Of Accidental Death.
HAS THE APPEARANCE OF SUICIDE
Dead Man Went Into the Boarding
sunday Night aud Was shown to a
Room on the Fourth FiOOf..FOund
Dead Yesterday Morning and the
Gas Was Turned On.

A young. handsome and athletic look
ing man. six feet tall. weighing 100
pounds. and about 70 years old, lies
dead at Raub's undertaking establish
lnent on Spruce street.. He is John Crea-
han of Tobyhanna. and came to his
death by being smoheredt by illuminat-
ing gas i'm room l6 ON the fourth floor of
No. 215 Iackawanna avenue, some time
between II o'clock Sunday night and
10 O'Clock yesterday morning.
Coroner I.ongstreet was notified and
he empanel.d IL jury consisting of Fer
dinand Landau, II. X. Chase, j.
Il. Cameron. o. Nj, Custard.
George Dulph. and d. j. Thomas,
1t looks like suicide, but the
jury gave the case the benefit of the
doubt and Incorporated a clause i'm .the
verdict. presuming that it was acct
dental death.
No. 2i5 Lackawanna avenue is Il
boarding house kept by Miss Annie
Dunn. At 1920 Sunday night treahan
came in and engaged Il room for the
night. Miss Dunn asked him how long
he intended to stay and he answered
that he was going down below tomor-
row" j. \. Barron, who has some
thing to do with the boarding house
showed the lodger TO his room. There is
a small window in il. opening on the
hallway. and there is a Skylight over the
hallway. The room mas no outlet To the
street or alley. The window is two by
three and swings on hinges 1t is along
side the door. and beneath ii is the
gas jet, jutting out about foot from
the wall.
LIGHT NOT NECESSARY.
There was a gas jet lit in the hall
way when Mr.. Barron brought the man
to the room and ne told him ii would
not ne necessary 10 iisht 'ht Jr, III
me room as me one IN tne hal'WaS VA
threw itS rays 'hrousi tHe y" ii,uoW. ne
man saiu ne was soihs 10 peu tight
away ahShoW. MI. Barron saiu soou
liIsh. anu lhe 'ouser ''oseu 'he ooo'
ana the Wihuo"'
Al CLOCK YESTERDAY morning MISS
l'uhh Went along that hoor 10 can tht'
she smelled no gas. In the next room
TO TO- Mr.; anu MIS-. harrison anu
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on the floor, He ran and told his moth
er that there was n smell of gas in the
navt go, ar5 -, ,,,on ~, tho Hn,r Sha
,n, ,leN. looi,' '',t man vi, ,n. , 'Io, @ 81"
ioohso anu "l'e' seeiIs I': .la, ne Mas
people.
Nothing was done to the body until
the arrival of Coroner LOngstreet. The
man was living on his face at the foot
of the he'd the gas iet was wide onen
on5 Tho ,.nnn, Nc 6Iiad Nth gas Thara
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was d coii,uSioii oh TIE iei' Siue vi ms
of the bed When he came i'm there
was no marks on him. He was un-
dressed except a shirt. His clothes
We're thrown on the floor The coat con-
tanned two half-pint TASKS of whiskey
that had not been opened. In one Of the
pockets of the pantaloons was pay
envelope stamped Sept. 30 from the Po-
como Ice company and the amount
marked on 1t was $l1.56. The amount
in it was SLIGO. The name John Creahan
was written on the envelope.
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In a vest pocket he had much worn
sheet of music entitled, Far From the
Hearthstone" All that was left of the
words is as follows:
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Far thrnnp6 ,ba forest he cboses the
deer
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The stars are obscured that should show
him his pathway;