The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-06-28
A TRAGIC DEATH
Young Adelbert Hay, consul to
Pretoria, Killed
FELL FROM A HOTEL WINDOW
Every Movement of Young Hay Was
Traced in an Effort TO Penetrate
fair.

New Haven, Conn, June 24.-Adel
bert Stone Hay, former consul of the
United States at Pretoria, South AZ
RIGA, 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 80
o'clock yesterday morning and was in
stantly killed. The full details of the
terrible accident will never be known.
Mr.. Hay had rooms at the New Haven
house for commencement week. Ii is
generally supposed, however, that af-
ter going TO his room he went TO the
window for air and, sitting on the sill,
he dozed off, ana, overbalancing, fell
to the pavement below, a fall of fully
GO feet. The fall resulted in instant
death and within ID minutes the body
had been identified as that of young
Hay. The body was removed as soon
as possible to the rooms of a nearby
undertaken, where il awaited instruc-
tiOns from the family. Repeated eff
forts TO locate Secretary Hay by wire
were futile until the early morning
hours, when request from the father
reached Mr. Seth MoseIy, the proprie-
tor of the hotel, to care for the body
until the members of the family could
reach town
Every movement of young Hay was
traced in an effort to penetrate the UNI
certainties of the awful affair. 1t was
learned that the young man on May
20 LETT Washington with his mother
and two sisters for Newburn, n. H.,
the summer home of Secretary Hay.
Last week he left New Hampshire for
New York, where he spent some days.
He arrived in New Haven Saturday
evening in time TOR dinner, and went
Immediately 10 the New Haven house,
where he was assigned to room No. ~,
third floor, front, directly over the
Chapel street entrance to the hotel Of
fee.
The Hon John Hay, secretary of
state, worn by the trip Of nearly nine
hours from Washington to New Ha-
ven, and nearly Frustrated by grief at
the untimely end of his oldest son,
Adelbert s. Hay, here Sunday morn
ing, reached the city at 5: 40 last even
ing. He was accompanied by his sec
rotary, Mr. Whitney, and was met at
the station by r. l.. McDuffy of New
York city and Mr.. Charles Wade of
| Cleveland, O. Col. Hay gave evidences
of extreme fatigue, and the mental
agony incident upon his great Attic
tion was Enthusiastically written on his
features. The secretary with his
| party, entered a carriage and was
driven in great haste to the residence
of Mr. Seth Mosely, SO Wall street. In
the drawing-room of the house re-
posed the remains Of the dead son. In
the presence of the beloved dead, Col.
Hay, utterly collapsed and Frustrated
by his great grief, took TO his bed. DR..
Samuel ID. Gilbert was summoned and
administered to the patient. Scarcely
more than an hour passed before Miss
Helen Hay, a daughter of the family,
well-night Frustrated by the shock,
was at her fathers bedside. The meet
ing was heart-rending in the fullness
of its dignified suffering. Meanwhile
there gathered at the Mosely residence
other mourners for the dead. Last
evening dispatches were received con-
tanning the intelligence that Mrs. Hay.
the bereaved mother, and daughter,
Miss Alice Hay, are en- route from
Newbury and would reach New Haven
this morning. Clarence Hay, the
younger son, is expected from Sims
bury, Conn, where he has been at
school.
At the Mosely residence last night
it was formally announced that no ar
rangements for funeral services would
be made until after the arrival of Mrs.
| Hay.