Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1901-06-24
TRAGIC DEATH
Oh YOUNG HAY
Fell From Third Story Win
dow to Deem
HIS FAMILY Is FRUSTRATED
lie Had Gone TO New Haven TO Take
Pert in Commencement Exercises
OF Yale
HIS FAMILY is FRUSTRATED

New Haven. June "a. - Adelbert
Stone Hay. former consul of the Uni
ted States at Pretoria, South Africa,
and eldest son of Secretary of State
John Hay, fell from a window in the
third story of the New Haven House
in this city shortly before 1880 o'clock
yesterday morning, and was instantly
killed
The dead man was graduate of
Yale, of the class of '9S. and his death
occurred on the eve of the university
commencement which brought him
here Saturday and in which, by virtue
OF his class Office, the young man
would have been one of the leaders.
The full details of the terrible acct
dent viii never be known. Il is gener-
ally supposed, however. that after 60
ing to his room he went to the win
dow for air and. sitting on the sill,
he dosed off and, overbalancing. fell TO
the pavement below-a fall of fully GO
feet. The fall resulted in instant
death and within Is minutes the body
had been identified as that of young
Hay.
Young Hay was one of the vanguard
of the academic class of Yale '9s. He
had come to his old college town as q
member of his class triennial commit
tee and arrived early to assist his col
leagues on the committee in preparing
for the festivities of commencement
week in general and for the class sup
per In particular He took dinner with |
some of his classmates. and at 81
o'clock hurried to the Hyperion thea |
ter where he witnessed the evening |
performance He spent a quiet hour in |
the hotel corridor and smoking room
after the theater. and shortly after
midnight retired to his room, remark |
Ing to the hotel clerk that he was
sleepy and leaving a call for 8 O'Clock /
in the morning He was not seen
again until his body came whirllng
through the air to its destruction.
Secretary Hay. worn by the trip Of
nearly nine hours from Washington to
New Haven, and nearly Frustrated by
grief at the untimely end of his oldest
son, reached this city at 5:45 o'clock
last evening. He was accompanied by
his secretary Mr.. Whitney, and was
met at the station by r. L. MeDufie, of
New York city. and Mr. Charles Wade
Of Cleveland.
The secretary, with his party, i'm
mediately entered a carriage and was
driven in great haste to the residence
of Mr. Seth Mosely, SO Wall street
where reDosed the remains of the dead
son. Here Col. Hay utterly collapsed,
and Frustrated by his great grief took
TO his bed. DR.. Samuel d. Gilbert was
and administered to the pa
tent
Scarcely more than an hour passed
before Miss Helen Hay, a daughter of
The family we'll nigh Frustrated by the
shock of the sad news, was at her
Iather's bedside. The meeting was
leartrending in the fullness of its dig
lified suffering.
Mrs. Hay, the bereayed mother, and
daughter Miss Alice Hay, reached
New Haven this morning from New A
burg, N. II. Clarence Hay, the young
II son, is expected today from Sims
Jury, Conn. where he has been at ,
ichool Mr. Samuel Mather. Of Cleve-
and. a brother-in-law of Secretary
lay. with his vito. win also reach New
haven today
Late last night Dr. Gilbert who is at
he bedsid, Of the secretary. announc- 7
ID that the indisposition Of Col Hay IS
lot serious, adding that ho IS simply
with grief, and that the
'rostraticn will disappear af-cr a SUI.
cient rest. =