The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-07
Air Of Mystery Surrounds
the Affair.

young man, supposed TO be Peter
Sullivan of Nashua, n H., drank two
ounces Of laudanum, at the Lincoln
House, last night, it is thought, with
suicidal intent. The police ambulance
was summoned and carried the man to
the City Hospital where he lay for
hours in an unconscious state.
At II so last night Lieut.. Johnson re-
ceived telephone message from the
Lincoln House, asking for an ambul-
ance to remove sick man from the
hotel to the hospital The lieutenant
replied that the police ambulance was
not for that purpose. Then the man in
the Lincoln House said that the pa
1ient had taken laudanum and it was
feared that he would die
The ambulance went at once to the
hotel and the officers in charge found
the inmates in an excited state. DR..
Royal P. Watkins and DR.. James e.
McGoutry were in attendance
DR.. Watkins gave officer Hurley a
two ounce phial which had contained
laudanum, and was found by the no
tel attaches when they entered Sulli-
vans room.
Sullivan came to the hotel Sunday
afternoon about $50 o'clock and after
registering asked to be shown to his
room. He was assigned to room 40 and
during Sunday night and Monday re-
manned in the hotel greater portion
of the time. He appeared to be very
quiet and gentlemany, and dill not at
tract any attention. :
The attaches heard considerable
noise in room 40 shortly after IL o'clock
Groans and cries issued from the
apartment and the door was opened
by one of the men who had gathered
about the hallway.
Sullivan was found lying upon a sofa
partially dressed. He was in awful ag-
ony and the hotel people at once looked
up physician, Dr. Royal 2. Watkins
was summoned and DR.. James Z. Nc
County was found on the premises.
Inc physicians discovered at once up
on their arrival that the man was in a
very dangerous condition, and that very
little could be done for him at that time.
The hotel people were very reticent
and refused to tell who the man was,
or where-he come from. They would
not admit to the newspaperlnen that he
had taken laudnanum, but Proprietor
Trowbridge volunteered the informa-
tlon that "a man had been taken sick
and had been removed to the hospital"
Lieut.. johnson called up DR.. Wat
klns over the telephone, and from him
learned that the dose of laudanum was
TO all appearances taken with suicidal
intent, and that the man had evidently
taken two ounces. The lieutenant at
once sent Sergt. McMurray to the Lin
coin House to investigate. The hotel
people We're not so reticent when the
officer arrived, and they claimed they
told all they knew about their guest
In the pockets of the suffering man
were found several cards. letters and
memorandum book The book, the
police thought was one that had been
used by a bartender to keep his per-
sonal accounts with his employer.
The card read as follows: Terrence
]. Cullen, 8 Woodland street, with w.
A. Lyle & Co.; ]. Frank Monsoon, 30S
Main street, and Charles Bonnin, bell
boy at St James Hotel, Nashua.
The letters found in his pockets were
addressed to P. Sullivan, clerk Mansion
House, Monson, Mass, and to Peter
sullivan, Nashua, n. H., care st. James
Hotel. The letters We're written al
ulIerent dates, but the latest was dated
and postmarked Feb. "a.
The letters go to show that the man
registered under his right name
The reasons why Sullivan took the
fatal potion could not be learned. The
Lincoln House people did all that lay
IN their power to keep the details OF
the affair perfectly quiet.
At the City Hospital It was said al
clock that the man was in a dying
condition and in an unconscious state
and likely TO die before daylight.
The proprietor of the st. James Ho.
tel in Nashua was called up over +ht
telephone by The Spy at 2.30 this NOR
ming. The proprietor said that Sulli.
van had worked at the Monson House
as clerk and that he had left there
about three weeks ago. Sullivan wa.
In Nashua Sunday and said that h,
could return to his position any tim,
he pleased. He left Nashua Sunday af
ternoOn
Sullivan, the hotel proprietor said
was hard drinker at times, and was il
the habit Of going on periodical sprees
ana that he at one time worked as
travelling salesman for w. H. I. Have
Cigar Co. at Lowell
Sullivan has a mother and tw,
brothers living in Monson. The bro h
ers are employed in a shoe factory il
that town.
Sullivan was said by the hotel pro
pletor to be good fellow when no
in his cups and that drink was hi
only fault. He could not give any rea
son why the man had attempted hi
own life.