The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-28
THREE PERISH in A FIRE.
ToUN6 WALTER L. SESSIONS ONE OF
TIKI YICTIMS.
The Fire Was In \ DlsorderIy House In James
town. n. Y.-The Other victiuas wero One
OF tho Inmates and =. w. Jordan OF Bunhie
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The Fire Was In = DIsorderly House IN James
town. n. Y.-The other victins Were one
or the Inmates and =. w. Jordan OF BunAie
Sessions suGocnted while Trying TO Escape
BUFFALO, Nov. ga Ere In jessie 0akley's
disorderly house in jamestown at an carly
hour this morning caused the death OF Walter
L. Sessions of Panama, Chautauuua county.
and Augustus w. Jordan and Sadie Noss OF
Buffalo. Tho building was a two-story brick
opposite the Everett House. Tho ground floor
wns used as a paper store. Jessie Oakley rented
the second floor and lived there with three othor
women. The Oakley woman Is widely notort'
Gus, because she was associated for years with
Jessie Dell, known throughout the Pennsylvania
oil regions on account of a circuit OF notort-
Gus houses which she conducted in western Now
York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Sessions went to bed in tho place somewhat
under the influence of liquor. and could not DO
reused in time to save him. He was q hand
some man, 81 years old, and was a son of former
Congressman Walter l.. Sessions and a nephew
Of Loren b. Sessions. who died last week.
Sessions was q lawyer. and, like his father
and his uncle. was prominent In western
Now York politics. When his uncle, Loren b.
Sessions, became q free-silver Republican and
took the stump for Bryan, Walter followed him
Kinless. Young sessions lived With bis mother at
Panama, but p~racticod law in jamestown.
On Friday night at l O'Clock n policeman saw
Sessions go into q restaurant for lunch. 1t is
assumed that from the restaurant he went to
Oakley's. The Oakley. woman and Sadie T,oss
were the only ones in. Jordan arrived later. The
fire was discovered. at about $3.50 o'clock by q
woman In an adjoining building. 1t took the
Fire Department only a few minutes to put out
the fire after the alarm was given. Sessions
was found between the bed and tho door. He
had evidently risen and tried to escape, but had
been overcome by smoke and fallen to the, floor.
His night clothes were burned and the flesh was
singed.. Jordan and the Voss woman had evi.
IDENTIFY been choked by the smoke as they slept.
Jessie Oakley was found by the firemen in the
front room. frnnticnlly screaming for aid. She
was slightly burned.
Jordan was 81 years old and had worked as n
bartender In various Buffalo hotels. He knew
the Voss girl in Buffalo. She was "a years old
and of attractive appearance. She came of
an excellent Buffalo family, her father being
a well.to-do contractor. Jordan's parents live
in Dunkirk.
The bodies were taken to the morgue and tho
Coroner has impanelled a jury to Investigate
the circumstances 1t is believed that an cleo
trio light wire caused the fire. The news of her
sons death among such surroundings proved n
severe blow TO Mrs. Sessions and she is %prostrat-
ed. Sessions had announced himself as n caDdi-
date for State Senator next fall, and would have
made q strong fight for the nomination.