New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-30
AUTOPSY ON ROOS'S BODY
CORONER FINDS DEATH WAS DUE To
NATURAL CAUSES, BUT WILL
HOLD INQUEST.

HOLD INQUEST.
! Charged with resisting and assauting police
man Michael Pompiui, the deputy sheriff who -e-
fused to admit Mrs. Marie ROos to the house where
her husband lay dead, on Friday, was arraigned
in the Yorkville police court yesterday After the
testimony he was held in $500 bail.
A development of the Captain Lantry's
communication to the Coroner's office that Mr..
Roos's death was suspicious. He had not reported
the case before Coroner Jackson who superin-
tended an autopsy Mr.. Rooss body. found that
death resulted from natural causes. but will hold
an inquest this week.
In court Pompini showed order. signed by Mr..
Roos empowering him to guard the house. He
told of Mrs. ROOss efforts at various times to
enter but said he did not know she had a right
He also described his employers illness and death
After the trial. Louis l.. Somerville. the lawyer
who has Mr. Rooss will, said that all the prop
erty left to a sister and a brother in SwItzer
land The executors William NJ. Chase. an
artist Of No. 303 F1fth-ave.. and DR.. James D.
| Trask, of No. 112 East Thirteth-,t. DR.. Trask
said that it only yesterday he learned he
executor, and he knew nothing of the
terms of the will. Mr.. Chase, too. had not known
that he executor. although he had known
Mr. Roos. He thought the estate would be worth
from $4,000 to 10000 The will will be offered for
probate tomorrow.
The order which Pompni showed purporting to
come from Mr.. Roos follows:
session Of my house No 4s EAST F. ttS ut Ps
and to allow no one 10 enter without my permits
October %. 1902
The body of the order was in a different hand
writing from the signature
Pompini, after the arraignment, made a state
ment telling how he had refused admittance to the
house to Mrs Roos on her husbands order sew
eral times. Continuing he said
vile the lawyer, to his ONCE and he requested
a., man TO stay In the house and take possession
have shown. putting me In possession of the
h9gsf Mr. R9os said This syes You charge Of
an order T signed BY ne Ra"s .,, ,.s oo,s
stayed home on Monday and TUESDAY Wednes-
day di4 morning he left the house very early and
the door. ! told him he shouldn't go out when he
= am worrying much can't stay in bed"
>, RE S then came in ate little breakfast and vent tt
very weak In the evening he was worse. and
which was to give him every '%o hours one
ali night with him He did not rest or Sleep. saw
ne wa setting %9rSe Gatq bre on Dr sosT I
said to give every two hours. II he Slept after
one. and he slept quietly I CONTINUED, to give him
me other medlcne ho"eyer at regular lnterva ti
violently. and after a time he said:
son away from here. / don't want them to get in
my, way or Sc them any more in this world
At $50 O'Clock on Thursday afternoon he shook
to get up he'd him down as the doctor said he
must stay in bed and a nurse would be supplied
cine time again, and vas going TO give 1t to him.
Nj Ludwig, an artist friend who has a business
In Fifth-ave.. and who lives At Pavonia, y. J..
how bad Mr. Roos was and left word with me
that II he became worse to Telegraph to him.
the house With his sonin-iaw two minutes ate
Mr.. ROOS died DIT. BOgtrt called afteTward
and he gave "A certificate OF death.
Mr. Roos's son, against whom Mr. Roos OBJ
Jeeied was not MT Rooss onsp5ins but son
ts',,,t,, -. -. IL.
he bad his suspicion asatnst mebody but he
Magistrate Crane. before the close OF court
granted a summons, returnable this morning for
the appearance Of Charles Bacisalupo Of No. 26ia
Mulberry-st. the undertaken. who took charge OF
the body. Detective Mucauley found Bacgalupo in
charge OF the body. the undertaken saying he had
been directed TO take charge by PompinL
After the magistrate had left the bench Louis
l.. Somerville came court He said that Mr.
Roos married Mrs Roos I'm 1878. Mrs. Roos had
previously been divorced from a former husband
named Blodgett. She considerably older than
her second husband. For the first few years Mr.
somerville said. the life was happy. but that af-
terward II He said that Mrs. Roos
addicted to the morphine habit.
In April last talk of separation started
1t was decided to give Mrs. Roos $500 a year. but
negotiations finally fell through, owing, Mr.. Som
ervllle said to persistent ideas of Mrs. Roos about
her husband mortgaging his property insure the
payments.
In October It was decided put Pompini i'm
charge and he took charge the day Mrs. Roos
left the house. October %.
Captain Lantry said in the afternoon that he did
make official report to the Coropers office
that the suspicious but communicated
with that Office that there certain facts that
appeared peculiar and he would advise an in
vestisation. In accordance with the request Coro-
ncr jackson went TO the house in the afternoon
and Or. BOgert. DR. Bogart said that
soon as he saw Mr. Roos he thought he was going
die. He said that there We're signs of heart
trouble, and he also had attack OF grippe.
When Mr. Roos died he gave a certisate that he
died of grippe and heart trouble DR.. Higgins per
formed the autopsy in the presence of Coroner
Jackson No signs of foul play observed.
There were evidences of valvular disease of the
heart and fatty degeneration, and there a lob
ular trouble in the lungs The liver and spleen
were considerably enlarged. The stomach and
other digestive organs removed and a chem
zeal analysis be made of them If it seems de
sirable The autopsy showed that death was ap-
parently from natural causes.
NIr. Chase said he thought that Mr.. Roos had
comparatively little property and that the estate
would not amount to much $4,000 or $4,000.
Coroner jackson said inquest would be held
during the week. although the autopsy indicated
examined and analysis made OF the contents
The analysis would not take place unless the police
across some evidence
DROPS DEAD GIVING MUSIC LESSON.