The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-01-01
GAS KILLED THIS COUPLE.
JOHN WtTkER AND a WOMAN FOUND
~ ROOM or BROOkIIN HOTEL.
Had Registered Night Before as Mr.. WEIGH
and WIFE Young Man a Carpenter and
Church worker Of Jamaica. l.. Woman.
as and Good Looking. Not Yet Unidentified.

20 ana Goo0 IOOhluk' '" et inuoHtiueu.
A-phyNieted by ga. a man and a woman
we're found dead yesterday morning In Q
room they had occupied during the preceding
might in the ' esta Horel at Nesta avenue and
Fulton street, BrOoklNn. The bodies vera
removed 20 the mursu" and during the after
noon the man was Identified as John j. Walker.
23 years old. u carpenter. who lived at II
McAuley place. jamaica. l. ] The woman
mas not been Identified. Tho report first
circulated was that the couple had committed
suicide. but the police believe that the pair
met their death by accident. circumstances
point TO THE theory a. being the more plausi-
bic. IL Is believed by the police that thu
couple went to bed leaving the gas burning
and that subsequently, the man got UP to
e1tin ruish IL, but by mistake opened the jet
which supplied the stove. That discovering
his error IA" turned out, the light. but neg
leCted To- shut on the feeder for the stove.
Walker. ac"oinpanl"d by IN" womani
asked FOR n, room az the hotel At about half
past 10 O'Clock on SUNDAY night and was
gi-trrcd ne VI. Welch aud wife. Newark
= j" Neither Of the couple carried any
proprietor Of the hotel. about an hour after
ward M order wa received from the room
for one hot %whlskey and two sandwiches:
Courtney himself waited on the couple and
he says that Walker met him at the door
aud took from him the tray upon which the
Nnl-kpN ana SANDWICHES were carried. re
made some %iocdlar remark and seemed To
pe in the best Of spirits. Nothing more
was heard from the room until Rudolph
Hunletu. the barte nder, went TO his room
on the same floor about half past : yesterday
morning and smelled gas. He traced thu
odur to the room which Walker and the
woman occupied and sufI,noned the pro-
pfIetor. After repeated rapping- the door
was forced and the couple found insensibls
on the bed The ambulance surgeon from
81 Mary'- Hospital pronoumced both dead
on hi arrival, 4 card in Walkers, pocket
addressed 10 himself led 10 his Identification
HIS father. Jacob Mckenzie Walker. a
well-to-do builder Of Jamaica, was brought
10 the morgle and recognized the body.
The dead man was the eldest of seven children
and bore an excellent reputation in Jamaica.
lie wa 23 Years old and Il carp, inter-. He was
a member OF the Jamaica Baptist Church. of
which the Rev. Dr. EIchIuUnd IL pastor, and
M 10 two years ago was active In church
wa taken sick with rheumatism, and this
forced him To give M his SUNDAY school
work. but he continued to attend the Baptist
Church. Siv months ago he was so much
improved In health that he again started to
work a, a carpenter Walkers mother said
that her son left home early on sunday even
ing. ost-usibly to call on friends in East New
York.
NJ clue to the woman's identity was found
on her body She was good looking, with a
great deal Of dark hair. and well dressed.
She wur" a SKIRT Of black cloth, a black waist.
trimmed with white, a light brown coat,
trimmed with light braid. and n red velvet
hat. oruHmeuted with gray feathers. On
her wrist NH- 4 mounted Japanese
bra Celrt, and there We're tire" rings on her
fnger-. one was a plain gold band.