The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-03
EMILE lola
FOUND DEAD
NOTED WRITER AND REFoRMER
Passes AWAY.
DEATH IS CAUSED BY GAS
Wife Also Found Unconscious by His
Death Bed, But Is Recussitat-
ed by Doctors.

Paris, Sept. pm. lola, the novel
list, who was born in Paris April 20,
1910, died this morning.
lola was found dead in his house
from as%phyxiation. His wife is grave
~ iii.
lola was asphyxiated by fumes from
a stove, the pipes Of which are said
to have been out Of order. At the
same time it is stated that there are
indications of suicide. lola and his
wife returned to his Paris home from
their country house at Medan yester-
day, and owing to a sudden spell OF
cold while here, he ordered the heat
ing stove in his bedroom to be light
ed. The stove burned badly, but lola
and his wife retired at 10 O'Clock last
night and the servants, not hearing
any movement in the apartment this
morning, entered the bedroom at $3.50
a. m. and found Nine. lola lying on
the bed inanimate. lola was lying
half out Of bed, with his head and
shoulders on the floor and his legs on
the bed. Doctors were summoned,
but they failed to restore lola to life.
After prolonged efforts they resus-
citated Nine. lola.
The rumor circulated regarding 70
las supposed suicide was based on
the fact that elections supposed to
have come from his stomach were
found on the floor, but the doctors say
they came from Zola's dog, which
was also in the bedroom and which
did not suffer from asphyxiation. 70
Ia dined with a good appetite yester-
day evening and the servants of the
house ate Of the same dishes. Moth
ing unusual was heard in the bed
room during the night.
Some workmen arrived at the lola
residence at $50 this morning in or
der to make certain repairs in Zola's
bedroom, but the servants had already
become alarmed at hearing no sound
from the room, and decided to enter
it and burst the door Open, A slight
odor of carbonic gas was at once
noticed and the bodies of the novelist
and his wife were found in the posi-
lions already stated. lola had been
awakened by a choking sensation,
tried to rise, but was evidently un-
able to do so.
The windows were Immediately
opened, doctors and a commissary OF
police were summoned, and the ut
most efforts were made to revive the
novelist and his wife, but the former
had already succumbed. Nine. lola
regained consciousness about noon.
She now lies in a state of complete
prostration. An Improvement in her
condition is anxiously awaited in or
der to get light upon the accident.
A druggist who was the first to
arrive at the house in order to at
tend lola and his wife, said:
ssWhen I entered the bedroom M
lola was partly lying on the floor and
partly in bed. Near the bed was
matter thrown up from his stomach
No special odor likely to cause as
phyxiation was then distinguishable
The two victims, moreover, did moi
present exclusive symptoms of as
phyxiation. Their faces were con
torted and their lips bloodless, but no
violet color
The commissary Of police in his re
port to the project of Paris. said:
The heating stove was not lighted
and there was no odor of gas. It il
believed that his death was due t.
accidental poisoning by drugs. Tw'
little dogs were found in the bedroom
and were alive"
DIR. Leyrmand, who attended the vic
tim, is quoted as saying in an inter
view published this afternoon that tn
plate of the stove was still warm AM
the elections came from a dog.
His Literary Work.
M. Emile lola, perhaps the bes
known of French literateurs of today
was born in Paris in 1870. His earl
youth was passed at AK but he late
went to Paris to finish his studies. A
the conclusion, of his college career h
found himself in a state of absolut
poverty and in order to support hin
self accepted a position in the pull
fishing house Of Hachette.
His first book was published in 1856
being the collection of "Contes
Ninon." The first volume Of tn
.Rougon-Macquart' series appeare
in 1871, but his success as a novels
has been most remarkable. 10
works give evidence that the write