Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-25
FALLS FROM WINDOW.
Hegeman Believed to Have Been VIC
tim Of Fit of Dizziness.

New York. Sept. 24.-Dr. John A.
Hegeman, member of the real estate
firm of Adrian G. Hegeman & Co., of
No. 40 Broadway, fell from a window
in his apartment on the fourth floor
Of the Monticello. No. 400 to 4O6 West
End avenue, last evening, into the
courtyard The thud OF the body
striking the concrete pavement was
of the apartment house, who carried
DIR. Hogeman to the engine room.
When DR.. Richard j. T.. Scott ar
rived he pronounced Dr. Hegeman
dead. and Coroner Acritelli after an
investigation said that it was his opin-
ion that the fall had been due to an
accident. An electric desk lamp was
firmly held in DR.. Hegemans hand
and in his apartment the dangling ends
of insulated wire were found.
DIR. Hegeman arrived at the Month
cello lat about o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon. His two daughters, Lucy M.
Hegeman, % years old, and Aletta, %
years old, were away, the former in
Blairstown. n. j., and the latter at
Fyannis. On Cape Cod. They left the
city yesterday morning. DR.. Hegeman
was "a widOwer. Katie McDermott, a
maid, was in the apartment when DR..
HeEeman arrived, and he told her that
he intended to take q bath.
II is believed that he was dressing
near the window of his bedroom, when,
attacked by dizziness, to which he was
subject, he stumbled against the sill,
which is 1S inches high, and grabbed at
tJ,n ola ,trio IN him
self. This broke the wires from their
fastenings and he plunged to the court
yard separating the Monticello from
an adjoining apartment house. He was
clad only in a suit of underwear and
hose. In his room were pair Of shoes,
one apparently thrown aside as he
stumbled.
Coroner Acritelli examined the maid
regarding her employers actions at
ter he returned home yesterday. She
ga that Immediately upon his arrival
he went to his room for a short rest,
as was his custom. At o'clock she
knocked at the door and told him
that she was going on an errand. he
answered her cheerfuliy. That was the
last time he was seen alive.
The engineer staff in the apartment
house told the coroner that DR.. Hege-
man did not at any time seem to be
depressed The fact that the fatal fall
occurred while the daughters were
away was not regarded by the coroner
as especially significant.
DR. Hegaman was graduate OF
Princeton and of the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons He had practiced
medicine in Passaic. y. j. His wife
died there three years ago. While Dr
Hcgeman was in the real estate bust
ness at No. 1921 Broadway, and soon
afterward he came to this city with
his daughters to live. He was mcE-
her of the University, Union League
and Princeton Clubs.
In real estate circles DR.. H"geman
was widely known. He had for several
Years been associated with his brother.
Adrian G.. Hegeman. who is in Europe.
He was a short, stockily built man, and
those who knew him well said that he
often of fits of dizziness.
but thai otherwise he seemed to be in
good health Not one of his friends
believed that his fall was due to other
than accident. Messages were sent to
his daughters last evening and to his
brother.