The age-herald., 1901-10-24
Unfortunate Young Man For- ma|Iy Student at Birning-
 ham Medical College
LED 4 DISSIPATED LIFE.
New York Authorities Wire Here in Effort to Identify the Body-Dr. Mccain Claimed Nichols,
 8. C., as His Home.

pr. A. A. Mccain, the young physician who was found dead in his room in the Broadway Central Hotel in New York on Saturday, was once a student of the Bir- mingham Medical College.
 Vest erday morning, Chief of Police Aus tin received the following telegram, dated New York, october 23, 1901. It read as follows.
 "Dr. A. A. McCann or Cain, found dead here, Is at Bellevue Hospital awaiting Identification. Understand has friends in Birmingham. This is for your informa- tion. Advise prompt action If interested. A. W. Jones, Pier No. 1, North River"
 Upon investigation the name of A. A. Mccain of Nichols, s. O., was found on the matriculation book of the Birming- ham Medical College for the year 1897. Steve Wiggins, who acted as chief inspec- tor of the corps of young physicians who were employed by United States Marine Hospital Surgeon Magruder as vaccina- tors, while suppressing the smallpox epi- demic in Birmingham In 1898, says he re- calls the young doctor quite well.
 It was learned from several members
 
 at school for about two months and he Is said to have led a dissipated life while in Birmingham. He was always very neatly dressed and went with the best people of Birmingham.
 Went to St. Louis.
 Dr. Mccain often spoke of his native state, North Carolina, but never made ahy reference to any member of his family From Birmingham he went to St. Louis, where he secured position as travelling salesman for a wholesale drug house. He came to Birmingham about a year ago, and stated that he was going to Cuba. Since then nothing has been heard of him.
 The New York Sun of Monday has the following to say about the case. The de- scription given in the article proves with out doubt that the dead man Is the Dr. Mccain that was a student Of the Blrn- ingham Medical College.
 Whether or not Dr. A. A Mccain, the physician from Cuba who was found dead in his room in the Broadway Gen. tral hotel on Saturday. was a suicide will not be definitely known until Coroner's s Physician Williams has made an autopsy on the body. The impression prevails among some of the people at the hotel who were acquainted with the doctor that he may have taken morphine. For sev- eral days previous to his death he seemed to be Respondent, and man who dined with him on Friday night said that the doctors talk indicated that he had thoughts of suicide.
 Tall and Handsome.
 ''Dr. Mccain was tall, dark handsome and of splendid physique. When he ar rived at the hotel on October he said that he had Just come from Cuba, where he had been for nearly four years He wore khaki uniform and carried a small satcheL About the first thing he did was to purchase supply of civilian clothes. The clerk of the hotel says that the doctor had more than 5000 with him on his arrival, but he spent about $500 the first day. He drank heavily and kept 1t up for days.
 billiard room the doctor said he was South Carolinian. He also said he was in the marine hospital service, and was on his way to Washington, where he had been ordered to report on October 10 to answer a charge of having cleared a yell low fever ship at the port at which he was stationed while in Cuba.
 ''Dr. Mccain sobered up several days before he died, but on Saturday morning he was drunk again. Before retiring he wanted something from a druggists The hotel clerk urged him to send a mes senger, but he insisted on going himself, Where he went and what he purchased cannot be learned At o'clock in the afternoon his room was entered and the doctor was found dead. He was dressed In his underclothing and lay across the bedo