The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-24
TRAGIC FATE 0F A.S.HAY
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ilbop"'AiNN the Wadena. Mrs Wade went aboard the yacht after the theater and yester- day arrangements were being made to weigh the yachts anchor and sail away, when the steward of the boat, who had purchased a Sunday paper and read the announcement of MT. Hays death, ln- formed Mrs. Wade that her cousin was dead She could hardly believe it, hav- ing seen him in perfect health only the evening before She and her husband at once came ashore and learned that the terrible news was true MT anu Mrs Wade were registered at the New Haven house last night.
 It is a curious fact that at the tHeater where MT. Hay attended Saturday eve ming only few hours before hls death there was one act which almost eNactAy described the fate which he met so soon after. Among the performers at the theater was Press Eldridge, the We'll known comedian, and in his act ne gave a funny account of throwing a man from a third-story window. He told or looking out the window of his room on the third floor of his hotel and seeing man lying on the sidewalk lie salo that he hurried down stairs, picked the man up and carried him to the thlrd- story room and threw him through some curtains upon a bed as he sup posed Going to the window he agaln sees man lying on the sidewalk, DICKS him up, carries him to the thlrd-story room and throws him through the cur tains upon the bed, as he supposes' ' Looking out of the window again ne sees another man on the sidewalk ana repeats the performance or carrying him upstairs and is about to throw nm through the curtains when some one tells him that the curtain is in front or g window and then he learns, as the story goes, that he has been throwing the man through the third-story Wln- dow to the sidewalk instead of throw ing him upon bed.
 Press Eldridge told this story near the close of the performance, and not more than three hours after hearing It MT. Hay himself fell from a. third-story window and was killed.
 John Wrinn the man who saw MT. Hay as he was falling from the window, saws that he did not fall head first, but that he was in horizontal position and that he struck the edge of the iron rall- ing around the balcony at the second floor of the hotel, bounded from thls railing and fell to the walk. MT. Wrinn says that he heard no cry as the unfor- tunate man was falling.
 The police ambulance was summoned from the central police station, but when it arrived at the hotel it's services were not needed, as MT. Hay was dead 1t was only few minutes after the accident occurred that the body was Identified as that of MT. Hay by hack man who knew him when he was III college and who saw him and spoke to him Saturday evening shortly after he arrived in the city. MT. Hay was about thirty pounds heavier than when he was in college, and since leaving college had grown a small goatee. These changes in his appearance made 1t lm- possible for those who knew him when he was in college, some of whom were in the small crowd which gathered about the body, to positively identity the remains. Some of them 1mmedl- ately after the accident said that they thought the victim of the accident was he. but it was not until the hackman who had seen him the evening before viewed the remains that they were pos itiyely identified Some of his class mates who had arrived in the city for their triennial arrived at the scene Of the accident soon after and corroborat- ed the Identification.
 Medical Examiner Bartlett was sum- moned and made a further examination of the remains which were allowed to remain on the sidewalk, covered with a sheet. until his arrival pr. Bartlett found a bruise on the right arm and some bruises on the body caused by the fall. The skull was not broken, and the medical examiner is of the opinion that death was due either to concussion of the brain or a fracture at the base o1 the brain.
 The remains were removed to the un- dertaking rooms of Robert N. BurWen on Chapel street, just below the New Haven house, and about o'clock w. ri Moseey, of the New Haven house, se- cured telegraphic communication Wltf Washington and notified Secretary Hay of the tragic death of his son. The sec retary telegraphed back request tc Mr. Moseley to care for the remains un- til he arrived. The body was removed yesterday morning from the undertak- CTS rooms to the residence of 5. A Moseley, No. 36 Wall street
 Secretary Hay alone arrived in New Haven from Washington at 5:45 last evening. The terrible accident hac completely unnerved him, and, witt that and the long, nasty trip from Washington, he presented a haggart appearance when he alighted from the train at Union depot. He entered carriage at the depot and was driver at once to the residence of MT. Nose ley.
 worn out with the long trip from tht national capital, and once within th' walls of the house that sheltered th remains of his dead son, the secretar, collapsed His prostration was so com plete that medical aid was deemed nee essary, and Dr. Gilbert was summoned Miss Helen Hay, a daughter of the sec retary, arrived in New Haven from Bos ton at 7:1O last evening.
 Dr. Samuel D. Gilbert, who was sum moned in attendance upon Secretar, Hay, announced last evening that tn illness of the secretary is apparent, not serious. The physician said: MT Hay is simply overwhelmed by tn tragic death of his son and is suffering from a prostration which will probabl, 1,o ,elievpd bv sufficient rest