The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-04
AGED SPNSTER ASPHYXIATED
KATHERINE GORE. 81. KILLED
IN HER ROOM BY GAS.

Died with q Rosary IN Her Hands Had
Bankbools showing Deposits OF 81. 500
Used 20 Have Callers VINO Came In
Carriages-Letters From Relatives.
Coronsr Hamburger desires 70 hnd the
relatives OF Miss Katherine Gore, m aged
spinster who was found dead In a small
furnished room at POI Third svenue yester-
day morning. She was asphyxiated by
gas that had escaped from an open cook
Of @ radiator. The Coroner thinks that
death was accidental.
Miss Gore had livod az the address,
which 10 q furnished room house kept
~ Mrs. osterie, for seven months. When
she had not been up and stirring shortly
before noon yesterday Mrs. Osterle became
worried, especially as there was no TO-
Spouse % repeated knocking at the door.
Mrs. 0sterle got some other neighbors
and q policeman to assist her In breaking
into the room.
An Ambulance was summoned from
Bellevue Hospital and Dr.. Urquhart, the
su rgeon, said hat the old woman had been
lead about three hours. Clasped In Miss
Cores hands was a rosary. There was no
evidence OF an attempt to stuff up the
windows or keyhole and had Miss Gore
occupied a larger room she would probably
not rave been ~asphyxiated.
Two trunks in the room were taken to
the East Twenty-second street police station
and Coroner Hamburger examined their
contents last night. Before doing 50 he
went to the Third avenue house and ques-
toned Mrs. Osterie. The latter said that
the dead woman never talked about her
AWAITS -NhA~ ehna - aap that ohA had
lived in various parts of the country and
was interested in some property on East
Tenth street, near st. Marks Church, az
Second avenue. Mrs. Osterle told the
Coroner that Miss Gore frequently had
visitors, somo of whom came in Ct bs and
well appointed carriages.
A letter found in the trunks gave a clue
to the woman's age. The letter was from
Joseph A. Therry, a nephew of the dead
woman, and was dated November IL, 1904.
In it Therry. who was a pupil at Notre
Dame College, Montreal, wished his dear
Aunt Kate" u happy, birthday and mem
toned the fact that she was then SO years
old.
Various letters n Miss Gore sho we'd
that she had lived at S31 Livingston street,
Brooklyn; az 22O East Fourteenth street,
this city, and in May, 1904, she was residing
at O1O OI1Jt SlTFtI, DTOOhGEs VIC ltILtT
was from Victor stanley, ouuse for the
Association of Civil Service Employees
Of America, and showed that Stanley was
a nephew of Miss Gore. In the letter he
told her of the fight he was making 20 nave
aged civil serv ice employees p~ensloned.
A photogra ph Of a child, taken at ROcka-
away in the mine of 1904. had written
on the back OF it, My Dear Aunt Kate,
from Adelaide"
In one of the trunks was a Catholic PRAYER
book that was printed in 1895. An undated
letter, the envelope Of which is missing,
YVES signed your neice" and written from 2
Eat l27th street. this city. The letter spoke
Of Miss Gore havin been seen on Fourteenth
street and inquired as to when she left
Chicago, Another letter, with envelope
missing and no date, rame from a niece,
Miss Edith Donnelly, of s037 Julian street,
Chicago.
Three bank books were found in the
trunks. One on the Bowery Savings Bank
showed that in 1897 Miss Katherine Gore
bad a balance on deposit there OF $500. Ss.
A book on the Bank for Savings. dated in
1894, showed a balance of As2. A book
on the same bank showed that Miss Gore
had on deposit there S492, and II was said
that this money was 10 he held in trust for
Gertrude Therry.
The bank books gave no indication Of
Miss Gore ever having withdrawn her
deposits. II was shown that she was in the
habit Of drawing the interest on her money
when il fell due up 20 the last balancing
of the books.
Miss Gore had a little change in her pos
session when found dead The body is at
tho MoTgue and Coroner Hamburger is sure
that there are relatives Of the dead woman
living in or near this city who will claim
the body. The effects found in the room
will be held by the police of the East
Twenty-sNeond street station.