Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-12-01
MAN AND WIFE
FOUND DEAD IN
BATH ROOM
How Conductor and Mrs. W
u. NewCOmb Met flOr-
-. Tible Deaths.

AFphyxiatcd by gas and then
drowned ln u tub ~ water in which
he WAS bathing, w. a. NcWcumb, an
30 pnao a Southwestern freight con.
duCtor was Wednesday uight found
dead To- che bathroom ct the Broad
way hoioi m Myrtle avenue. El paFo.
says tho Herald Lying at the odgo
OF tho hath iuh in the small room.
with her head under the tub. was
Mrs. Nowcomh. his wife. who was
also overcome b. the gas She died
after lingering in terrible agony sew.
Ural hours.
A leaking instantaneous gas heater.
which was only partially turned OF,
was responsible for the death - both
NowcOmb and hts Wiie
According 20 the STORY Of the room
crH Ia the house NCwCnmh had re-
turned from a trip down town and
had entered the bath tub 20 take n
bath about O'Clock Mrs Newcomb
lighted the instantaneous heater "a
heat tho water and loft the room
She returned several times tn take
towels and other articles into the
little room.
About . O'Clock roomera heard n
noise which they thought cmanated
from the bath room, bat o. Il aid not
continue long no further attention
was paid 20 a. n Is nov believed
that the noiEe was made by Mrs.
NeWcomb when she discovered her
husband unconscious In the bath tub.
overcome by thc gas fumes. In her
struggles 60 pull him from the tub
she was herself overcome and fell 90
me hOor unconscious.
n was two hours and n half after
Ncwcnmb had entered the bath tub
that a Mrs. Ford, a roomer nt the no.
tel. heard groana coming from the
room aud, waking another roumor I.
l.. Meyer nakcd him 90 investigate.
Meyer found tho door % the bath
room locked and crnwled through the
tranB0m. In the bath tub he found
Hcwcomb In a sitting posture. with
the water touching his chin Ills
body was lilolOsa. AZ the side OF
tho bath tub was stretched the wife.
who. entirely dressed, lay moaning
and writing with her head uhdef the
end OF the tub.
Both bodies were removed from the
bathroom and physicians were sum
moned Meanwhile the occupants Of
the house tried simple methods Of re-
suscitating the pair City Physician
Anderson and Or. ". r. Moore work
ed over the body Of Mrs. Newcomb,
but she died at $3.50. without regain
ing consciousness
There were evidences Of a struggle
In the bath room and n ~ believed
that Nowcomb tried 90 leave the tub
when he discovered that tho gas was
overcoming him. Tie was no doubt
assisted by BIS wife. but tho fumes
were so strong that both were shortly
overcome.
The instantaneous gas heater was
turned partially on aud gas WIS os-
Gaping both from the burner and n
leak Mrs Carson. proprietross Of
the house, declares that Mrs. New.
comb did not wholly understand the
workings Of the heater
DR. Moore who made an examina-
ton OF Nowcombe body declared that
the lungs were filled with water aud
that Newcomb was drowned after he
had been asphyxlated.
Ncwcumh was employed as a.
freight conductor for the M paso a
Southwestern. running out OF El Paso
until recently, when be was trans.
ferrod 20 CarrlzOzo. He was plan.
ming TO movo 10 the latter place
NOwcomb and his wife. who was Miss
Hattie Wade were married only a
few months ago IN El PRso and lived
happily together. Ncwcomh was a
member OF the q. r. r. Mrs Now
comb has q sister. Mrs. Herman. iiy-
Ing In M pasO. who runs CONNECTION
cry store nj Second and Campbell
streets Funeral Arrangements have
not yet been made.
The Nowcombs are from Spring.
field. Mass