The evening world., 1908-11-12
WIDOW TO TAKE
BODY Of YOUNG
WATTERSON HOME
Lawyer Killed by Fall From
Window Will Be Buried
in Louisville.
FATHER IS OVERCOME.
Victim Closing Office Window
When He Stumbled and
Plunged to Death.

The body OF Harvey Watterson, the
brilliant young lawyer and son OF Henry
watterson, editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal. who was killed last
evening by falling from window on
the nineteenth floor of the Trust Com
pany OF America Building in Wall street
TO the roof of the United States Trust
Company Building. 40 feet below. will
be sent to his home in Louisville to-day
or tomorrow for burial.
y telegram received to-day said that
Henry Watterson was too crushed with
grief to come for the body OF mis- boy,
and it will be accompanied b. tie Young
widow ard possibly one or two intimate
friends and business associates.
There was never any question in the
minds of his friends and the men IN his
Offices that Young Watterson me, his
death by accident, but Official red-tape
had 10 he gone through. aud to-day the
Coroner, after having given permission
for removal of the body TO the dead
mans home, No. 81 Second avenue. an
nounced that death was accidental.
Fell Closing Window
In the opinion OF the Coroner and
police, young WatterSon lost his ball
snce while trying to close a window in
the room OF his Office, and stumbling
over radiator, plunged through the
opening.
The impac: OF his body on the roof
OF tae United States Trust Building
startled the occupants and caused an
investigation which resulted in the dis
covery of the nutiated body. His
skull. one leg and his ribs on the left
side we're broken.
Young Watterson. member of the
law firm Vi W!ng, Russell " Matter
son. had been tor an hour WITH Burt
l.. Whedon, chief clerk of the law firm,
consu ling books IN the library. Aoou,
49, z. NJ. Matterson arose, closed the
books before MN and started for ms
private offices il the northeast corner
OF the suite.
Il must be going home. he said to
Mir. Whedon.
The door leading to Mr.. W-,tersous
private Office CLOSES with srr.ns JOCK
and IL slammed behind min.
Not more than ten minutes afterwurd
Major Burns. superintendent OF the
building. ran eXcitedlv INTO ne otfi-e
and informed Thomas L. Wing. senior
member of the tirm, that Mr. " after
Son WAS dead
He mas fallen from the window onto
the roo; OF the next bu! ding. sad
Major Burns.
MI. Wing broke into the office OF
Natterson and found the window open
and Mr.. Watterson's hat on the desk
Under IL was a package of law papers
I relating TO case on which Watterson
had been working. He had told Fred
erick r. Bagg. one OF the clerks, that
he intended TO ;ake the papers nome
A.. with him.
Policeman Refs, OF the John street
Dtation, was notified, and he summoned
Or. Laurie, of the Hudson Street Hos
pital. who made an examination of the
body on the roof and called Coroner
Dooley. He al once decided that the
death was accidental and gave per.
mission for the body to Ue removed to
Watterson late home.
News Prostrates Widow.
Mr. Wing, OF the Jaw AIm, was
the FIRST to inform the Young Wife of
the Tragedy. Inc news prOstrat.u ne..
AIRS. Watterson was Miss Alice
Brewer. she was married TO Harvey
Watterson three years ago. The cUup.e
have no children Harvey was thirty
years old, and the younger OF the three
sons OF Henry Waiterson. He was a
graduate OF the Law Department OF the
Columbia University While a student
In CoIumbia he taught in a night school