The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-13
KILLED BY .BURNED,OUT AIR.
WONiN DEAD, MAN NEAR DEATH
IN DOWNTOWN HOTEL.
Gas jet Heater Had Exhausted the Air
Woman was Mrs. Mary Pntten or
BroOklyn-Nian May He W. 4. Blank
One OF Couple Dead Uptown.


good looking dark-eyed woman, APP
parently less than 80 years old. went
into the cafe Of the Governor Hotel at IS
Whitehall street carry on SATURDAY ening
with a well dressed man Of about forty and
had few drinks. Later they entered the
hotel office and the man registered himself
and his companion as A. Harrison and wife :
of this city. Neither showed any signs
OF ntoxication.
They were assigned TO a room on the
third floor The hotel register shows
that they went to the room at 9:i6 o'clock.
Nothing more was heard OF them until
the door was burst open by the proprietor
of the hotel at las o'clock yesterday after
noon after repeated efforts had been made
to arouse the occupants by knocking
sitting air roll ed out Of the doorway.
forcing the hotel man and his clerk back
The man and woman were seen undressed
on the bed The light from a gobular
= till burning feeby. The heat, almost Ike
hat Of Il furnace. had consumed SO much
Of the oxy gen OF the air that the man and
woman had been sutiocated. Policeman
Owens and a doctor were called in. The
woman was dead and the man was so close
to death that his heart Was scarcely beat
ing. He was taken 10 the Hudson street
hospital. He had not regained conscious
ness at o CLOCK this morning.
The man had no money or jewelry. He
is about feet 10 inches tall. OF dark COM
plexion. and his face had not been shaved
FOR several days He wore light over
coat and dark sack suit of good material.
card of the Vulcan Asbestos Company OF
100 Maiden lane. found in a coat pocket
indicated that the man might be sales
man for the company. The name William
+. Blank at the bottom OF the card in let
ters made by rubber stamp showed that
Mr.. Blank represented the company.
Mr. Magee. the proprietor OF the hotel,
said that the man seemed 10 be a salesman
Of some sort. There was no means of
finding out the peril Of the couple or the
door would have been opened long before.
The transom and window of the room had
been closed and the gas was turned into
the heater at full force.
4 letter that the woman had In a black
leather handbag which contained also
s437. led To her Identification. The letter
was addressed to Mrs Patten, care of Mrs.
Brennan 1877 West Ninth street BROOKLYN.
Last night Mrs. Agnes Gallagher Of S72
Union street, Brooklyn, appeared at the
hotel and identified the body as that Of
Mrs Mary Patten. % years old Of 1857 West
Ninth street
driver that Mrs. Patten was the wife Of
Mike Patten, a welterweight prlzefighter
and politician Of Brooklyn, who was for
merly partner Of Mike Leonard and used
to run the GREENWOOD htlletlC NIuD.
WOMAN DEAD; MAN MISSING.
A couple registered at the Lexington
Hotel at IL Lexington avenue last Friday
night as Joseph O'Keefe and Wife. City.
The pair were seen about the hotel early
the next day and around noon the man
disappeared The woman stayed around
and was last seen alive on Saturday night.
No one Yesterday could get in the room
TO which the couple had been assigned.
and last night the door was forced The
woman lay on the bed dead, She was fully
dressed and from appearances her death
wa due TO natural causes. Dr. Hall of
Bellevue said he didn't think there was
ANYTHING suspicious about her death.
The proprietor of the hotel didn't know
that the women's companion had left hcr
alone EMPLOYEES We're questioned. but
no one had seen the man around after
Saturday noon The couple didn't quarrel
az far as any one knew Neither had the
woman made any complaint that she had
been deserted.
on washstand in the room was bottle
Of medicine with the label OF druggist
al Lexington avenue and iO3d street This
bottle was full and wasn't marked poison
Near il was an empty envelope with the
name Of Walfrid Bloom Of 1870 l.enoN
avenue printed in one corner. bloom keeps
an employment agency there.
Nothing could be found on the woman
that would throw any light on her identity
Her clothing was Of good material and she
was about rs years old, She wore a blue
suit blue silk waist patent leather ties
and q brown hat with n white feather,
The hat was on n hook In the room The
woman had been dead several hours when
her body was found.