The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-24
TRAGIC FATE 0F A.S.HAY Ex-ConsuI General at Pre- toria Killed by a Fall From a New Haven
 House Third Story
 Window.
SON OF SECRETARY JOHN HAY

COL. HAY AT NOME OF s. 4. MOSE
 LET PROSTRATED WITH GRIEF.
 He Arrived i'm New Haven Early Las
 Evening-Young NIT. Hay Was Here t,
 -AnAct Which He Saw at the Theate,
 Three Hours Before His Death De.
 plotted Ills Fate.-Name ed After an Uncle
 Who Was Drowned Here Years Ago
 While a Student at Yale.
 Adelbert s. Hay consul-general for
 the United States at Pretoria, South
 Africa, during the most stirring period of the Boer war, and oldest child of
 John Hay, secretary of state in Presi- dent McKinley's cabinet, was almost
 instantly killed about 2:3O yesterday morning by falling from the window of his room on the third floor of the New Haven house.
 Young MT. Hay was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1898, the class which holds a triennial celebration this year, and he was a member of the class tri- ennial committee. He arrived in New Haven about o'clock Saturday even inc and fo ho uau where he registered, taking room 47 on the third floor, one of the windows of which and the one from which he fell is directly over the Chapel street entrance to the hotel.
 MT. Hay had dinner with few of his classmates, and at o'clock he went to the Hyperion theater to witness the evening performance there. After the theater he spent some time about the hotel corridors and went to his room about 1 o'clock, leaving an order to be called at o'clock yesterday morning
 It was about 2:30 when John Wrinn, laborer, who was standing in front of the drug store next to the New Haven house, saw man come tumbling down from an upper window in the hotel. Wrinn said afterwards that when he first saw the falling object he thought that it was a dummy which some stu dents had thrown from a window. As soon as it struck the sidewalk, how ever he saw that it was a man and hurried up to the body. MT. Hay did not move after he struck the sidewalk, and 1t is thought that death resulted almost instantaneously. Police Ser geant Hayes was near by and arrived on the scene few moments after the body struck the sidewalk. Dr. T. M Cahill was making call near by, and he arrived about ten minutes after Mir | Hay fell. Dr. w. c. Welch and pr. H. | l.. Welch, who live just across College street from the hotel, had been sum- moned and arrived few minutes after pr. Cahill. The latter at once made an examination of the body and found that life was extinct.
 Blood was flowing in stream from the mouth of the unfortunate man and soon made quite a pool on the pave nent. He was clothed only in pajamas, and as he fell he had rolled a little. so hat a large clot of blood stained his tight breast. It was at first thought hat this blood came from wound in he breast but closer examination by 0r. CahIl showed that this was not the ,ase. There were no abrasions what ,ver on the body and no external evil lence of the cause of death. There were no broken bones apparently, and leath is thought to have been caused " concussion at the base of the ,rain.
 The hour being so late there were few ,eople on the street in the vicinity of he hotel when the accident occurred. n few minutes, however, about ozen persons gathered. Among them we're Francis B. Trowbridge, John Des- nond and James R. Disbrow, who as- isted pr. Cahill in making his exam nation of the body. On one of the fing- rs of the right hand was ring from mich the stone setting was missing. he stone, turquoise, was found later n the sidewalk near the body and had vidently been torn from it's setting by ,, ne force of the blow when the hand truck the pavement. Later another ng was found underneath the body, nd it is thought that this second ring nd the circumstance of it's being re- T loved from the finger furnishes a clue the cause of the accident. It was armed last night from Mrs. J. H. Wade,
 cousin of young Hay, that the ring T as one of Japanese make and oblong t was always loose on MT. Hays finger y nd he had a habit of rolling it on his O nger It is suggested that possibly he p as sitting in the window of his room aying with the ring, that it slipped a om his finger and that he grabbed for D as it fell and lost his balance on the n indow sill fl Then it was also suggested that he d as walking in his sleep and walked O 1t of the open window. So far as il uld be learned last night, however, b had never been troubled with som f, lmbulism. On the sill of the window -- om which he fell partly smoked c'g o, cite was found, and from this fact it e surmised that possibly he was sitting V the window smoking, dropped asleep II Id fell from his seat. VI, When Mir Hay attended the theater f.