New-York tribune., 1907-07-13
POLICE DROP MYSTERY.
Circumstances Of Bre5cer,s DEATH
Still Unexplained, HoceUer.

Captain Walsh. of the East 10th street station.
started yesterday an investigation into the death
Of Henry Hochemester, the wealthy brewer. at
the Harlem Central Hotel on Friday. July .. After
Detective Summers had looked into the case the
police decided that death was due entirely TO nat
ural causes, and the police investigation was
dropped. 1t is now denied that he went TO the
hotel with that he died while guest
of the house, but George BurgfeId. the proprietor
"out Of town" yesterday, and the old register
had been replaced by a
1t was the effort to conceal the fact that Henry
Hochemeister was dead in the hotel which caused
suspicious of foul play. Justice zeller says he
not greatly surprised TO hear that HoChe-
mester dead. as his III health had been known
10 his friends for long time. He says that when
he reached the hotel he told the hotel people to
call a coroner. and that Coroner Dooley later
visited the hotel and gave permission to remove
the body to the apartments which Mr.. Hochemej-
ster had kept UP over the offices OF the Ringler
brewery, in Third avenue
The death reported TO the coroners Office
according L the records. of Coroner Doo-
1eys cases. Coroner Dooey, however, says he
at the hotel and had nothing to do with
the case except that his physician. Dr. Lehane
the body al the Third avenue apartments and
pronounced death due 10 cerebral hemoTrhage and
heart disease
Captain walsh .'just to satisfy the newspaper
men, he said, went the hotel yesterday and
came back with a slip OF paper which he said
he had copied the entry 1ir. Hochemester made at
the hotel at 1915 D. M on Friday. This said that
he had been assigned Room 81 AS. according
TO some Of Mr.. Hochemeister's friends lie had
fallen dead or unconscious half q block from the
hotel signing Of the register is thought pecu-
lar Another question asked about the entry is
why should clerk register q brought in
dead dying from the street 10 be cared for
simply until the arrival OF his friends. unusually
large number of whom appear TO have been near
the hotel.
Justice zelers part in the affair seems 10 be
merely that OF a friend who anxious TO
avoid any anxiety or unpleasant notoriety for Mr..
Hochemeisters family He did not come 10 the
,CTe until HOclPmelSte-'S and
al once advised that coroner be called
When Mr.. Hochemeister was dead dying in
the hotel a DIR. Brewer summoned, Il is said
but Hochemeister dead when he came. Dr.
Brewer could not be found yesterday Louis SchuI-
man the saloonkeeper at sd street and Third
nue. and Louis WanneInacher and Wets. feed mer-
chants OF No. S6 East e2d street. were also sum-
noned TO the hotel after his death as friends of
the brewer They. too. told he had been
brought in from the street.
Although Captain Walsh is sure that Mr. Hoche-
rnetster registered alone and assigned to Room
81. far be learned the brewer signed
the register with woman companion. under
fictitious name and both went TO Room 5S where
they remained until his death. After his death. 10
up these facts. 1t is alleged, the second entry
made the register and the fact that he had
occupied Room 0S concealed.
Worry his illness and family troubles
what Justice Zeler believes caused the brewers
death 4 believe the dead man worried consider
ably said the justice, because Of a suit insti-
tuted against him by a relative for $S00o. and
also believe that any attempt made now to distort
the facts and make sensation out of absolutely
nothing is also the work Of an enemy
Isaac kuselman, attorney for George Ringler &
Bros, said that Mr.. Hochenleister for six years
had suffered from n;er and kidney disease drOpsy,
Brights disease and rupture. Last October he
was in such poor condition that he unable TO
lsave his hone Tottenvlle. where he lived with
his wife and child and had great trouble in walk
ing. Mr. Kugelman added more confusion by say
ine thar tie body. w9ea he reached the hotel was
r. parlor the second floor. next to the hotel
Office.
Nj KuGelman said that last Friday night Mr.
Hochemeister started about o'clock to visit his
friend, John Hasse, who is the proprietor or the
cafe at Park avenue and 18TH street, diagonay
across from the Harlem Central Hotel. He was
not seen again, not having reached Hasses place.
until his friends were informed of his death