The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-10-03
EMILE lOA Is No MORE.
The Famous French Novelist Sue.
cumbs to the Fumes Of Gas
From a Defective Stove.
HnE. lola ALSO FOUND UNCONSCIOUS,
They Had Just Returned From Theis
Country Home and Ordered .
Fire Lighted tn = stove In Their
Chsmber-A Dog In the Room
Escaped.

Paris, Sept. 30.-Emil lola, the nov
elist. who gained additional promi-
nenee in recent years because of his
defense Of the Jews and OF former
Capt. Dreyfus, was found dead in his
Paris house Monday morning. As
phyxiation resulting from the fumes
from stove in his room Is given as
the cause. NJ. lola and his wife re-
tired at ten o'clock Sunday night
Madame lola was seriously i'll when
the room was broken into Monday
morning. At about noon she was
removed to a private hospital, where
she recovered consciousness for .
short time, and was able briefly to
explain to a magistrate what had hap
pened. NJ. and Mime. Zoln returned to
Paris from their country house at
Medan, Sunday. Owing to sudden
spell of cold weather the heating
stove in their bed room was ordered
to be lighted. The stove burned bad
ly, and the pipes of the stove are said
to have been out of order.
To the magistrate Mime. Zola ex-
planned that she woke early Monday
morning with a splitting headache.
She wakened her husband, and asked
him to open n window She saw him
rise and attempt TO move toward a
window, but he staggered and fell TO
the floor unconscious. Nine. lola
tainted at the same moment and was
therefore unable to give the alarm.
Nine. lola does not vet know Of
her husbands death. and it is feared
she may suffer a relapse when in
formed of il. 1t is thought, however,
that she will recover.
Death Caused Grent Sensation.
The death of NJ. Zola, which only
became generally known late Monday
afternoon, has caused a great sensa-
ton in Paris, and in the evening there
was constant stream of callers at
the lola residence. NJ Zola's body
lies upon a divan in the center Of
the spacious drawing room of his
house under canopy of rare and
ancient hangings. The body is COW
cred with sheet and electric lamps
throw their vivid light upon the wax
like features of the dead.
The servants Of the lola household,
not hearing any movement in their
ra'ter's apartments Monday morn
ing, entered the bed room at half past
nine o'clock and found NJ. lola lying
with his head and shoulders on the
floor, and his legs on the bed Doc
tors were summoned. but they failed
to resuscitate him.
Nine. Zola was unconscious. bu.
after prolonged efforts on the par, of
the physicians she showed signs Of
life. but IL was some time before She
became conscious.
Death Was Accidental.
The commissary Of police who was
summoned to the lola residence said
in his report TO the project of Paris:
"The heating stove was not lighted.
and there was no odor of gas. u ~
believed that NJ. Zola's death was due
to accidental poisoning by drugs.
A little dog found in the bed room
Is alive"
In second report the commissary
Of police Endorsed the medical opin-
ion that NJ. Zola's death was accident
az ind due TO asphyxiation.
NJ. Zola had been resting from
literary work since he finished his
book called "The Truth" which is
beng published in serial form "a the
Aurrre.
NJ. Zola was born in Paris. April 2.
lS4C.