The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-27
Adelbert Stone Hay Fell From
a Hotel Window at New
Haven. CT.
A son OF SECRETARY OF STATE hay.
The Fall Was a Distance of Sixty
Feet and the Young Man Was
Killed Instantly.
The Father Is Stricken with Grief
and Is Confined to His Bed-His
Condition, However, L. Not
Thought Serious.

ThOuRht SERIOUS.
New Haven, Ct, June 24.-Adelbert
Stone Hay, former consul of the
United States at Pretoria, South At.
rica, and eldest son of Secretary OF
State John Hay, fell from window
in the third story of the New Haven
house, in this city, shortly before 2.3o
o'clock Sunday morning and was in
stantly killed. The dead man was
n 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.
iialf dozen physicians who were
hastily summoned were unable to do
anything and the body awaited its
disposition at the order of the cor
oncr's deputy, Medical Examiner
Bartlett.
Repeated efforts to locate Secretary
Hay by wire were futile until the
early morning hours, when request
|
Mosely, the proprietor of the hotel.
to take care of the body until the
members of the family could reach
town. Meanwhile the sensation oc-
casioned by the tragedy continued.
Every movement of Young Hay was
traced in an effort to penetrate the
uncertainties of his awful taking
off.
1t was learned that the young man
on May 30 left Washington with his
mother and two sisters for Newburll,
\. H., the summer home of Secretary
Hay. Last week he left New Hamp-
shire for New York, where he spent
some days. He arrived in New Haven
saturday evening in time for dinner,
and went Immediately to the New
Haven house, where he was assigned
to Room No. ~, third floor front,
directly over the Chapel street en-
trance to the hotel office.
There was solitary spectator to
the terrible tragedy, laborer on the
city streets. At the hour mentioned
the workman saw the form of man
falling through space. An instant
later the body lay directly in front of
the main hotel entrance. The hor-
ritied laborer rushed to the spot, and
his shouts brought others. The usual
crowd gathered. In it were several
belated Yale graduates. They bent
over the body. One of them, Julian
Mason, son of the late Edward G.
Mason, of Chicago, and a classmate
of young Hay, drew back, and, hor-
ror stricken, cried: "My God; it's
Del Hay" BY this time the shotel
clerk had reached the scene and
made the Identification complete. The
body was clad in paiamas.
On the window sill of the room oc.
cupied by young Hay was found a
partly consumed cigarette. On the
floor near the window was a ring
worn by the victim. His clothing
had been neatly arranged, and the
bed clothes were drawn back. The
bed, however, had not been occupied.
Here the mystery becomes intangible.
The popular theory seems to have it
that the young man, having prepared
for bed, thought to indulge III a
goodnight smoke;" that he choose
the cool of the window, possibly
dozed, lost his balance and fell from
the window. The presence of the
ring on the floor, however. gave rise
to the fancy that possibly while toy
ing with the ring, it dropped, and
that in an effort to recover it, the
fall resulted. However it happened,
the known facts make it conclusive
that it was all frightful accident.
New Haven, Ct.. June A.--Hon John
Hay. secretary of State, worn out
by the trip of nearly nine hours from
ly prostrated by grief at the untiI,ely
end of his Oldest son, Adelbert s.
Hay, here Sunday morning, reached
this city at 5:45 o'clock Sunday even
ing. He was accompanied by his sec
retary, Mr.. Whitney, and was met al
the station by r. L. McDuffy, of New
York city, and Mr.. Charles Wade, OF
Cleveland, o. Col. Hay gave evidence
of exereme fatigue, and the mental
agony incident upon his great afflic
ton was Enthusiastically written on
his features.
The secretary. with his party, i'm
mediately entered carriage and wa,
driven in great haste to the residence
Of Mr.. Seth Mossly, SO Wall street
In the drawing room of the hous.
reposed the remains of his dead son
In the presence of the beloved deai
Col. Hay utterly collapsed, and, pros
tratsd by his great grief, took to bil
bed. DR.. Samuel d. Gilbert wss sum
moned and administered to the pa
tient. t ~
Late Sunday night DR.. Gilbert, wit
Is at the bedside of the secretary
announced that the condition of Col
Hay is not serious, adding that h
Is simply overwhelmed with grief
and that the prostretion will dis
appear after sufficient rest.
Ladies' to Remove Their Hats.
Omaha. Neb., June 22.-The Frs
Methodist church hoard has passe
Q resolution reques ing that at al
ne public services t,e ladies' remov
the,. hats after enter ing the pews."
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