Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-25
DIES AFTER ACCIDENT
J. e. Pepper, Famous Horse
man, Expires in New York.
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE
Burial Certificate Withheld for Tech
=, meal Reasons.
BRED WELL-KN0WN RACERS
Met With Financial Reverses, but
Was Re-Established in Business
by His Wife.
BRED WELLKN0WN RACERS


Pepper. the well-known whisky distiller
and horseman of Lexington. KY, died yes
terday afternoon at the Waldorf. He had
been staying there for a week or so with
MS wife, and last Thursday as he was
coming from the 9Th avenue elevated at
go street and Broadway, he missed his
Iootihs and fell heavily on the slippery
sidewalk He sustained an impacted frac-
ture of the Leg and was taken to his rooms
at the hotel
BY his desire Dr. Richard H Gibbons,
who lives in the Waldorf and has his
office at 80 West Both street was called in
The colonel had been suffering for some
time from heart, lung and kidney affections,
and complications set in. Drs. f. G. Jane
way, w. L. Bull, V. p. Gibney and f. W.
Caldwell were summoned in consultation
Thelr skill was of no avail, and Col. Pep
per died shortly after > o'clock yesterday
afternoon
The certificate of death mentioned the
broken leg and DR.. Burke of the health de-
partment directed Coroner Hamburger to
make an investigation. He went up to the
waldorf last night, and after talking over
the case with DR.. Gibbons, gave permission
for the removal of the body to Charles
PloWrlght's undertaking establishment at
$50 4th avenue.
His physician, DR.. O'Hanlon, will make a
thorough investigation. No autopsy has
been ordered, and it is not likely that it
VIII be. The health department refused the
burial permit on a technical point and 1t
Is probable that the explanations given will
be satisfactory.
His Widow Frustrated.
Mrs. Pepper was unable last night to
give any account of the coloners last
Illness. She was under the doctors care,
completely Frustrated by her loss. She is
threatened with broncho-pneumonia
Col. j. E. Pepper owned the distillery
established near Lexington, Ky, In 1880 by
his grandfather, James Culpepper He was
also a prominent figure on the race track.
and owned horses Of the best breed in the
6Ioe Grass country. He married Miss Ella
Onutt the reigning belle of Kentucky, and
with her is connected romantic story.
Ten years ago things were going badly
with her husband. His horses, however
well bred and carefully trained, seemed
/ 70 run only to be defeated. and his dis
ttllery business also fell on bad times In
1897 he failed. The controlling interest in
the business. which still Lore his name,
was sold, and his racing stable was Of
fered under the hammer.
Bought Husbands Horses.
Mrs. Pepper. however, had money of her
own, and was determined to use it to re-
tr1eye her husbands fortunes She bought
| in at the sale the best of his stable, and
| 1t is said that the Kentuckians, when they
saw that she wanted them, did not run
herself under the name of E. o. Pepper,
and won with as much regularity as her
husband had lost. She backed her horses
tudfciously, and is said to have made a
handsome sum in the ring Then at the
end of the season, while the horses reputa-
lions were fresh. she sold them all at
auction.
She made enough in one year to estab-
lish her husband again. He was able to
buy back the control of his distilling bust
ness and to set out once more on his racing
career with far better results than before.
The best stallion Col Pepper ever had
was Kantaka, son Of Scottish Chief and
Seclusion the dam of the celebrated Eng
lish racer and stallion ,Hermt), who was
imported to this country some twenty
this horse got such good racers as Meadow
thorpe. Whisky King. Prince Pepper King
Pepper and Baron Pepper.
Peppers Best Horse.
When Kantaka died a few years ago
Col Pepper installed at Meadowthorpe the
stallion Meadowthorpe, and during the last
three or four years he has proved to be a
worthy successor of his sire.
The best horse Col. Pepper ever bred
was not, however. by one of his own stall
lions. This animal was Kings Courier. He
was a son Of James r. Keene's stallion
Kingston. out Of mare called Stylitone,
and he raced as a two-year-old in $780, He
did not meet Mesmerist, the champion of
that year, but in the autumn at Morris
Park he defeated every youngster that an
peared against him.
His racing attracted the attention Of
John A. Drake. who at that time had
an ambition to shine the British turf
and Mr.. Drake leased him for service
Ter for Col. Pepper for 800, and he is
now in England