Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
YOUNG HAYS FATAL FILL ]
Death on Sidewalk After Drop
 From Third Story.

l Haven House Saturday Night-His l Father Prostrated by the News 1 The Young Man had Been Travelling Considerably of Late.
 New Haven, June 24.-Adelbert ] Stone Hay, consul to Pretoria, South Africa, during the more momentous l stages of the Boer war, the oldest son 1 of Hon John Hay, secretary of state in
 President McKinley's cabinet, and a l graduate of the class of 1898 at Yaie, l met with tragic death ill this city early yesterday morning. It has cast
 an unmistakable gloom over the glad l deSt of Yale seasons. He fell from a 1 window in the third story of the New Haven house, where he had rooms for | commencement week, to the Chapel street pavement, fully sixty feet below, | and met instant death.
 How it all happened immediately be- came matter of speculation on the part of the throng of curious spectators l who gathered and a subjecL of mourn ] full inquiry for the classmates and friends of the promising young man. Half a dozen physicians were hastily, but vainly, summoned, and the coro- l ner's deputy, Medical Examiner Bart l lett, pronounced it a case of accidental | death and speedily reported to his su- perior, Coroner Mix. The body was
 removed as soon as possible to the rooms of a nearby undertaken, where it l awaited instructions from the afflicted 1 family.
 Repeated efforts to locate Secretary Hay by wire were futile until the early morning hours, when a request from l the father reached Seth Moseley, pro- 1 prietor of the hotel, to care for the body until the memb bers of the family could reach town.
 Meanwhile the sensation occasioned by the tragedy continued. Every move
 meDt of young Hay was traced in an effort to penetrate the uncertainties of the affair. The young man on May 29
 left 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 last evening and went immediately to the New Haven house, where he was assigned to room No 47, third floor front, directly over l the Chapel street entrance to the hotel office. Young Hay was one of the van- guards of his class. He had come to his l old college home as a member of his class triennia1 committed He took din- ner with few of his classmates and attended the performance at the l Hyperion theater in the evening" He spent quiet hour in the hotel corridors and smoking room after the theater, and shortly after midnight, retired to his room, | remarking to the hotel clerk that he l was sleepy and leaving a call for ; o'clock this morning.
 There was a solitary spectator to the | terrible tragedy, a laborer on the city streets. Mortified, he rushed to the | spot and his shouts brought others. Tn the crowd were several be.aaed Yale graduates They bent over the body. One of them, Julian s. Mason, son of the late Edward c. Mason Of Chicago,
 and classmate of young Hay, drew back and. horror-stricken cried: My God! It's Del Hay.''
 The body was clad in pajamas. On the window sill of the rooms occupied by young Hay was found a partly con- sumed cigarette. On the floor near the window was a ring worn by him. His clothing had been neatly arranged and the bedclothes were drawn back. The bed, however, had not been occupied. The popular theory has it that the
 young man, having prepared for bed,
 thought to indulge in a goodnight smoke; that he chose the cool of the
 window, possibly dozed, lost his bal
 ance and fell from the window The
 presence of the ring on the floor, how
 ever, gave rise to the fancy that pos.
 sibly, while, toying with the ring, it dropped and thatin an effort to recover it, the fall resulted.
 Young Hay, it was remarked, was in particularly good spirits and had | planned with unusual enthusiasm to participate in many engagements this week. In the harbor lies a yacht | floating a party of the young mans 1 friends whom he had promised to join in trip on Wednesday to New London 1 for the Yale-Harvard boat races on Thursday.
 An examination of the remains dis | head, confusion on the right arm and an abrasion on the right leg. A plain l ring worn on the right hand was bent and cut. No bones were broken and there was no external fracture of the
 skull. There was no symptoms which l would seem to confirm the theory that | a sudden dizziness had occasioned the fall Nor were there any sings of all cohol present. In the fall the body | escaped striking a balcony one story below and crashed upon the pavement with great force, he being heavy man.
 Early this afternoon it was an nounced that the funeral would take 1 place in Cleveland, O., and the remains will be taken to that city on the 7:30 l train this evening.
 ] New Haven, Conn, June 24.--After passing a fairly restful sight, Secre l tary Hay, who upon arriving late yes 1 terday afternoon at the residence of Seth H. Moseley, where the body of l his son, Adelbert s. Hay, former U. l s. consul at Pretoria, South Africa lay stark and cold in death he was