The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-10-29
EDIT0RM0RSS|SDEAD
Frightful Fall from a Third-S.ory
Window Sends Him to
Eternity.
WAS ALL ALONE AT TIP TIME
People Outside Saw Him Take the
Plunge - Nearly Instantly
Killed-State Notes.
WAS ALL ALONE AT THE TIME

indianapolis, Oct. %. = Samuel E.
Morss, former consul general at Paris,
proprietor Of The Evening Sentinel,
founder Of the Kansas City Star, and
one Of the best-known public men In
the United States, was killed by fall
ing from the third story Of The Sen
tinel building. Morse had been in Ill
health and it is believed he suffered an
attack of heart trouble, opened the
window Of his Office to get fresh air
and lost his balance. He lived only
fifteen minutes after being picked up
on the street
Last Man Who Saw Him Alive.
w. HI. Smith is probably the last
man who saw Morss alive. He was in
Morss' Office on business. He said
Morss was apparently as cheerful as
he had been at any time lately, but
seemed oppressed and kept his hand
on his heart and famed himself with
his hat. Smith thought at the time
that MOrss was having trouble with
his heart. When Smith left the Of
flee and started out Oh the street a
rush and the sound of heavy fall be-
hind him caused him to turn.
Was Sitting i'm the Window.
A few moments before the accident
Hubert Haskell, Morss' private secre-
tary, went into the private Office and
found Morss sitting in the window,
watching workmen who were putting
rolls of paper into the basement through
a large trap-dOor. Haskell cannot re-
member whether the window was open
or closed. Harry Pollsworth was walk
ing south in Illinois street, near the
alley, and saw the fall. He was look
ing upward and saw the whole descent.
His statement is: 1.-THE man was sit
ting in the window and apparently
lost his hold l saw the body tumble
from the window backward. He struck
the sidewalk head first"
Leaves a Widow and Daughter.
The window from which he fell
was in his private Office. No one was
with him at the time, though several
persons were waiting in the ante-rOOm
to see him. Morss left q widow and
one daughter, and was born at Fort
Wayne, Ind, Dec. Is, 1852. From 1871
to 1875 he was a member of the ed.-
torial staff and editor-in-chief of the
Fort Wayne Gazette, and later became
editor and part owner of the Fort
Wayne Sentinel. He was one of the
founders Of the Kansas City Star.
+ As TO His Politics.
Morss was prominent in Democrat
ic councils. In 1892 he was chairman
Of the Indiana delegation to the ma
tio1ial Democratic convention and a
member Of the committee on resolu-
tons. Morss never held any political
Office except that Of consul general at
Paris, which he filed during Cleve-
lands second administration He was
bitter opponent of the 16-to-1 plank
Of the platform at the Kansas City
convention, but fell into line and sup
ported Bryan with his newspaper, the
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Arrangements for the Funeral
Ex-Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter
and K. L. Cothrell, lifelong friends of
Morss, are conducting the arrange
ments for the funeral. The friendship
of Morss, Bookwalter and Cothrell be-
gan in 1872, when they were all en-
ployed on the Fort Wayne Gazette.
Morss was reporter. Cothrell was
the head carrier and Bookwalter was
the devil in the composing room.
The funeral will be held Friday at St.
Paurs Episcopal church. The body