Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-27
NET 4 Terrible DEATH.
Adelbert Stone Hay, Son of Secre.
tary of State Hay, Comes to
an Untimely End.
he FELL FROM A THIRD STORY WINDOW.
BE Had Gone to New Haven, Conn.,, TO
Attend the TriennIaI of the Commence
ment of His Class, and Was a Guest OF
the New Haven House, Where the
Tragic Event Occurred.

ment of His Class, and Was a Guest of
the New Haven House, Where the
Tragic Event Occurred.
New Haven, Conn.,. June 24.-Adei-
pert Stone Hay, former consul of the
United States at Pretoria, South Al
RIGA, and eldest son of Secretary Of
State John Hay, fell from a windn-v
in the third story of the New Haven
house in this city, shortly before 800
o'clock yesterday morning, and WIS
instantly killed.
The dead man was a 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 III which, by virtue
OF his class office, the young maa
would have been one OF the leaders.
Young Hay was one of the vain
guard of the academic class of Yale
90. He had come to his old college
town as a member of his class trIen-
NAL commencement, and arrived early
to assist his colleagues On the COM
mittee in preparing for the festivities
of commencement week in general
and for the class supper in particular.
He took dinner with some of his class
mates, and, at eight o'clock, hurried
10 the Hyperion theater, where he
witnessed the evening performance.
He spent a quiet hour in the hotel
corridor and smoking room after the
tbeater. and shortly after midnight
-o+,-aI - HE -0nnn rOn,a4lv1nm fn 4ha
hotel clerk hat he was sleepy, and
leaving a call for lime o'clock in the
morning. He was not seen again I'M
til his body came whirling through
the air to it's destruction two and one
half hours later.
The hotel where the unfortunate
young man q~uartered faces on Chapel
street, the principal thoroughfare OF
the city, and is almost under the caves
OF the university which he proudly
claimed as his alma mater.
There was a solitary spectator to
the terrible tragedy, a labOrer on the
city streets. At the hour mentioned
the workman saw the form of a maj
falling through space. An instant la
ter the body lay directly in front of
the main hotel entrance. The horri-
fed laborer rushed to the spot, and
his shouts brought others. The usual
crowd gathered. In it were several
belated Yale graduates. They bent
owe the body. One of them, Julian
Mason, a son of the late Edward G..
Mason, of Chicago, and a elassmate
of young Hay, drew back and, horror
stricken, cried:
MY God: it's Del Hay"
BY this time the hotel clerk had
reached the scene, and made the
identification complete. The body
a clad in pajamas.
On the window sill of the room oc-
cupied by young hay was found Il
partly-consu1ned cigarette. On the
floor near the window was a ring
worn by the victim was a ring
been neatly arranged and the bed
clothes were drawn back. The beG,
however. had not been occupied.
Here the mystery becomes intangI-
BILE. The popular theory seems to
have it that the young man, having
prepared for bed, thought to indulge
III q SoO0 h4SL SAHOAOs tAoN AS
chose the cool of the window. The
presence of the ring on the floor.
however, gave rise to the fancy that
possibly while toying with the ring, it
dropped, and that in an effort to re-
cover it, the fall resulted. However
il happened, the known facts seem to
make it conclusive that it was all q
frightful accident,
Young Hay, it was remarked, wa.
in particularly good spirits and had
planned with unusual enthusiasm TO
participate in many engagements
this week. In the harbor lies a yacht
in which in company of friends lie
had promised to join in a trip on
Wednesday to New London for the
Yale-Harvard boat races on Thursday.
In the college chapel at the morn
ing service President Hadley, in ad-
dressing the members of the gradual,
ing class, referred to the death OF
young Hay as follows:
1.-The truths of the Scriptural text
and the value of high ideals of a
hood are borne out by the untimelg
death of him whom we mourn to-day.
His life was not long, but he under
stood Christian honor, and he helped
these about him to maintain it. Ii
he had lived longer he would have
helped many more
In closing Dir. Hadley again re-
ferred to Mr.. Hays death Is follows:
''The deaths of several members of
the present class and of him whom we
are now mourning. makes this day,
always impressive, the more solemn,
the more sacred"
More Trouble Imminent.
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