The Republican journal., 1901-01-24
DIED SUDDENLY IN BOsToN.

1
News WAS received here late Wednesday
afternoon. Jan. 10th, of the sudden death in
Boston of Everett T. Hall and Arthur A. Pet
tingill, both of this city. They were found
dead that morning N Halls room in lodg
ing house at 80 Dwight street. The young
men were chums before leaving Belfast and
their intimacy was not lessened when they
went to Boston. Hall worked in the Quincy
House barber shop until 8 O'Clock Tuesday
evening. and Pettingil waited until his
chum got through work, when they left
together. Some time later they went to Halls
room. The Boston Herald of Jan. 18th,
says:
just what time the two men repaired
to Halls room on Tuesday night is not
ances would indicate that they came in
late and tired. They had lighted the gas
stove, and also the gas light, which was
tnrned on full blast, and Pettingill had
! thrown himself on the BED ana Hall was IN
| his easy chair.
1t was about $50 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon when the proprietor of the house
burst open the door, and found the men in
the positions described.
AS the door was burst open the heat in
| Gu6 IOOIl was lUletSt, LII. Ddlllcl
Ford of 2S4 Shawmut avenue, who was call
| ed, was of the opinion that the mems death
probably resulted from SutfocatiOn, all the
oxygen in the room having been exhausted
| by the intense heat
! When the doctor was called the bodies
were still warm, and the doctor thought
! they might possibly be saved, and both the
| patrol wagons from station 5 and a police
| ambulance were hastily summoned and the
| men taken to the City Hospital in hopes of
| saving their lives but all to no purpose.
Everybody speaks well of the deceased.
| Hall had been employed in the Quincy House
barber shop since June, 1899. The manager
of the shop said 81 did not have better
or steadier workman in my employ than Mr..
Hall. His death is great shock and sur
prise to us. He did not seem to have care
in the world, and did not seem to have
trouble with any one. He always dressed
| well and was always careful about his ap-
pearance. 1 cannot say too much in his be
| half and there is not one of his associates
here but who'feels his loss personally"
Mrs Frank Patterson, who keeps the
Dwight street lodging house, said to Bos-
ton Traveller man: everett Hall was man
of whom can speak in the highest terms.
He was honest, intelligent and industrious.
He was a man who seldom spent his even
ings in his room, was most careful to mind
his own business, and always paid his bills,
| Mr.. Pettingill was held in high esteem
both by the management and the employees
of the Metcalf Company. Mr.. Davidson,
spoke very highly of the young man. "He
came to u.s." said Mr. Davidson, ''from Xii
gore & Wilson, druggists of Belfast, Maine.
He was highly recommended, and we make
sure the recommendations were good. He
was always steady in his work, courteous
and obliging in manner, and he was GER
tainly not a drinking man. His untimely
death was great shock to u.s."
When first employed by the Metcalf Com
pany Pettingil was sent to the Brookline
store, but was soon transferred to the Ire
mont street place.
A correspondent writes to The Journal
from Boston: "The remains of young Hall
and Pettingill at the undertakers rooms in
Roxbury were seen by their Maine friends
here, among them Fred L. Mitchell, wife
and daughter, Mr.. Ralph Gray and his
mother, Mrs. Calvin j. Gray of Belmont,
Me. Both young men were great favorites
| in Boston and their sudden death casts a
gloom over all their friends, VINO realize to
the full what it means to the parents when
the dead are brought to their sorrowing
homes.'
Rev. G. G. Winslow, who is spending the
the winter in Massachusetts, sends us the
following clipping from the Boston Trans
cript of Jan. 18TH
According to statement given out at
police headquarters this afternoon, the
deaths of Everett T. Hall and Arthur A.
Pettingill were caused by ''suffocation from
lack of oxygen" This statement was given
out after inquiry at the City Hospital as to
the result of Medical Examiner Draper 8
autopsy held this forenoon. 1t is stated
that the announcement that the victims had
died ''from alcoholism was made by DR..
Draper before an autopsy was held 1t will
be especially gratifying to the relatives and
friends OF the two young men to hear that
the report of yesterday was incorrect, al
though they assert that they cannot quite
understand why it should have been made
before an autopsy was actually held.