The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-25
COL. ]. 3. PEPPER DIES HERE
DISTILLER HAD BROKEN HIS LEG
AND Had DIVERS AKLS.
His wife VOW Seriously III &C tho same
Hotel WIN Bronchial Pneumonia-Dc-
rective Death Certificate Brings the
Coroncr-Frvc Doctors In Attendance.

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rective Death Certificate Brings the
Coroncr Five Doctors In Attendance.
Col. James e. Pepper Of Lexington; KY,
the well known distiller. died st the Wal
dorf-Astoria at SIS o'clock yesterday
afternoon. His wife Is In q serious con-
diton in the same hotel. suffering from an
attack OF bronchial pneumonia.
Because Of an oversight In the drawing
Of the death certificate it was held up BY
the Board Of Health and Coroner Har-
burger went to the hotel to inquire. 1t ts
likely that an autopsy will be performed
now as a matter Of form.
DR.. Richard A. Gibbons. Drs. Jane~ayI
W. T. Bull and Gibney, and DR.. Caldwell,
an X-ray expert, had been in attendance
on Col. Pepper. DIR. Gibbons said Last night
that Col. Pepper had broken his leg last
Thursday afternoon. He was on the way
10 the hotel after a business visit in Wall
street and had just left the elevated train
at the Thirty-third street station.
He had started to cross the road when
he slipped and fell. striking partly
on the curb. His head hit the ground
and he lay in the street helpless until q
policeman came and picked him up. He
refused medical attendance, according TO
DR.. Gibbons, and, boarding a car with
assistance, went on TO the Waldorf. DR..
Gibbons said that Col. Pepper had suffered
for some time from lung, heart and kidney
trouble and the injury TO his leg aggravated
all of them 30 thai hesuccumbed.
Mrs. Pepper" Dt. Gibbons added, is
suffering from bronchial pneumonia and
at 915 o'clock hep temperature stood at
lOl rs. She is now under the influence OF
morphine and atrophine.'
Col. Pepper had been at the hotel ten
days. The death certificate, which was
filed soon after he died, gave the causes
of dea tn as kidney, lung and heart troubles
and an impacted fracture of the leg. The
Health Board rejected the certificate be-
cause it failed to give the details in regard
TO the fracture.
Coroner Hamburger said after he had
made an inquiry:
Il have seen DR.. Gibbons and w. A.
McCusker, one of the assistant managers
Of the hotel, and have made an examination
OF the body. | have ordered DR.. O'Hanlon
to make a further examination. The body
has been removed to Charles Plowright's
undertaking establishment at Fourth ave
nue. and Twenty sixth street"
Col. Pepper for many years owned a big
string of race horses. He was known best
TO turfmen perhaps as the o wner and breeder
of Kings Courier, by Kingston, James r.
Keene's famous stallion, out of Stylitine.
Kings Courier raced here as a two-year-old
in 1899, and was practically unbeatable.
although he didn't meet Mesmerist, the
Leading two-year-old OF the season. IL
was the opinion of many turfmen that the
honors would have gone TO Kings Courier
if they had come together.
In 1900 join A. Drake leased the services
Of Kings Courier and started a memorable
campaign on the British turf. Kings
Courier carried everything before him.
and it was estimated that Drake cleaned
up 81 900, 900 in that campaign. James
II. keene gave it as his opinion when he
returned from Europe in 1900 that Kings
Courier was a better horse than his Dis
| guise or DIAMOND Jubilee, the winner Of
the Derby that year.
Col. Pepper also was the owner of the
famous stallion kantaka. This was an
imported horse and never ran in the Pepper
colors. About fou or five years ago Col.
Pepper went into partnership in the horse
racing tOSlEeSS WIN Ut. y, hIdhl INHidIi,
the promoter. There was trouble in the
manaeenent Of the stable, and as n result
the forieits we're not paid and the stable
was sold ont,
In 1902 Col. Pepper had a stable Of about
thirty horses. Among some Of the best
known of his racers have been Love NoteI
Par Excellence. Roxane, Whiskey King,
John Rarieycorn and King Pepper, Among
racing men he had he reputation Of being
an enthusiastic lover Of horses but a poor
manager.
The Pepper family mas owned race horses
and distilled whiskcy in Kentucky for al
| most a hundred years.
Mrs. Pepper was Mss tlIl Oautt. and
when the Colonel failed in 1898 she took
! charge Of the racing end of the BUSINESS and
ran il with so great profit that her hushandis
finances were reestabl,Sheu.
DTStOV FMS GIRL I~IOLINIST.
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