New Ulm review., 1901-06-26

ADELBERT 8. Hay.
who registered as Adelbert S. Hay.
There was considerable excitement
about the hotel and large body of
students and graduates who are here
+ for the commencement exercises soon
gathered. A number of Hays former
classmates at Yale positively identified
the young man. Itis believed that Hay
became i'll and went to the window
for air, was overcome by a fit Of dizzi-
ness and fell to the ground below. A
medical examiner was sent for and
went to the hotel to view the body.
DR.. Bartlett, the medical examiner,
stated that Mr.. Hay probably came to
his death by an accident. The clothes
on the bed had been turned, showing
his intention to goto bed. His clothes
had been folded. On the ledge of the
window was found partly burned ci-
garette. This discovery leads to the
belief that Hay had lighted cigarette
before retiring and went to the win
dow to smoke it. Whether he was
seized with fit of dizziness or fell
asleep on the window ledge cannot be
determined.
Mr.. Hay was appointed consul to
Pretoria to succeed Consul Macrum
Decembe 4, 1899. 1t was charged that
Macrum had shown undue. favors to
the Beers. As the representative of
the United States. Consul Hay had
charge of the interests of British SUBJ
jects in the Transvaal and was several
times the medium of communication
between the contending forces. He re-
turned to the United States few
months ago.
Secretary Hay at New Haven.
New Haven, Conn, June 24.-Hon.
John Hay, secretary of state, arrived
in New Haven from Washington at5:45
P. m. Sunday in response to the dis
patch announcing the sudden death of
his son, Adelbert S. Hay. Mr.. Hay
was unaccompanied and gave signs Of
great grief. He entered a carriage and
was driven Immediately to the resi-
dence of Mr.. Seth Moseley, SO Wall
street. Worn out with the long trip
from the capital and once within the
walls Of the house that sheltered the
remains of his dead son, the secretary
collapsed. His prostration was so COM
plete that medical aid was deemed nec-
essary and DR.. Gilbert was summoned.
Miss Helen Hay, a daughter of the sec
retary, arrived in New Haven from
Boston at 7:10 p. m. DIR. Samuel ID.
1i1hnrf yub err 49,, Il
ance upon Secretary Hay, said Sunday
evening that the Illness of the secre-
tary is apparently not serious. The
physician said: .Mr. Hay is simply
overwhelmed by the tragic death of his
son and is suffering from prostra-
tion which will probably be relieved by
sufficient rest
Hears the Sad News.
Washington, June 24.-Secretary
Hay learned of the death of his son
Adelbert within an hour and half
of the tragedy through Secretary Cor
telyou. The latter had been called up
on the long-distance telephone at his
residence about three o'clock in the
night by Proprietor Moseley, of the
New Haven house, the scene of the
tragedy. Mr.. Moseley briefly told Sec
retary Cortelyou of the finding Of the
remains on the sidewalk and of the
other details of the accident. Secre-
tary Cortelyou FASTENED at once to the
residence of Secretary Hay and COM
municated the sad news as gently as
possible. The secretary appeared for
the moment to be completely crushed,
but rallied and set calmly about pre-
pairing for departure for New Haven
at the earliest moment.
Save the servants, Secretary Hay
was alone in his house, as all of his
family have been absent from Wash
ington since the secretary's visit to
Buffalo. Mrs. Hay, with Adelbert and
her two daughters, had been spending
few days in Cleveland, o., and from
that place went by way of Buffalo to
Newburn, N. H., on the shores OF Lake
Sunapec, where the family had just
settled down for the summer, with the
expectation that the secretary would
join them next month. There was no
one of his own people about him, there