The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-11
SEARCH FOR WOMAN WITH BANKER HILLS
She Had Been Long Sharer In Double Life of Plain
 vile Business Man

In Double Life of Plain
 vile Business Man
 WHEN HE DIED SHE LEFT
 New York Nov. 11.-Private de- | tectives employed by the family of Edwin Hills. a member of Con necticut legislature and a wealthy | hardware manufacturer and banker | of Plainville. Conn.,. are today SCOUT ing New York for the beautiful woman
 with whom he registered at the Gilsey
 House here and who later deserted him
 when he died in the room of heart 1 disease. The police are aiding in the search but they little hope that they | will be able to find the woman They
 believe she is woman of considerable | social standing, either in New 1ork, | or in the Connecticut town where she
 knew Hills and that it will be diff ficult matter to positively identify her.
 Acting on their supposition that the | woman was a society woman who met | Hills at some social function where he
 became enamoured of her. the officers
 are giving up their search of the ten | derloin and are Investigating carefully | several women whose names might
 have been linked with that of Hills | Hills came to this city with his wife
 on Tuesday. from Plainville. their home They went to the Hotel I'm
 perial. and later in the afternoon MT
 Hills went downtown on business.
 He never returned to the Imperial
 Yesterday afternoon.twenty-fou hours
 after he had left his wife. his body
 was found in Room g of the Gilsey
 House blocks below. Apparently he
 had died of heart disease.
 According to the management or the md COrnnar George
 Shrady. who subsequently, made an in
 veetigation. Mir. Hills entered the GIL
 sey House late on Tuesday night with
 a middle-aged woman. with whom ne had been seen there at intervals for the last four years or more. They registered as MT. and Mrs. Charles French" as was their custom Tester day morning. the woman. who IS only
 known to the Gilsey House people as
 the occasional companion of Afr- Hills.
 left the key at the desk and walked , out. Whence she came or where she
 went those at the hotel do not know.
 That Mir Hills was dead was dis i. covered by Mary McGoldrick. cham
 bermaid. She let herself into Room 32
 at o'clock yesterday morning WIen n | a pass key under the impression that | it had been vacated. Seeing that there
 was some one still in bed she tiptoed l to the window. soDened 1t. and went i, out. She returned to the room at II o'clock and again at 2:45. Seeing that II the occupant of the bed was still mo- | tionless beneath the clothes she bee me
 nervous and informed Manager Rooert Dunlap.
 The manager found Hills in his pa iamas. dead. with the bedclothes part | ly over his head. The hotel physlc an
 said that he had died of heart disease.
 An examination of his effects was | immediately made to see if he had been robbed. ,Ninety-nine dollars Tn cash a S350 Swiss watch. SoOO oia-
 mond ring. two $500 stick pins. and a | fOrInd the ' dressing table. This subsequently proved to be all in the way or Va,u- abIes that he had brought to the city. | By this time Mrs. Hills. at the I'm
 pcrial. had become hysterical over her husbands disappearance She knew , he had long been suffering from heart |. trouble By midnight on Tuesday. her
 husband having then been gone elgnt ho,,rs she became so thoroughly
 frightened that she telephoned Police Headquarters. and asked that a gen. , eral alarm be sent out for him. ano @ | that the hospitals @be searched. Sne also summoned her brother. John H Welsch of Douglaston. L. l.. and her son and daughter from their home Tn . Plainville-
 discovered and unidentified in Room ! 32 of the Gilsey House. the afternoon ] Uarers were full of accounts of his dis ! apnearance which caused many ' friends to flock to his wife's assistance ! Among these was A. Atwell. broker of 15 Broad street Mr. Atwei was l just hurrying out of the Imperial tc fake mart in the search for the miss ns
 man after a talk with Mrs. Hills. when Manager Dunlap of the Gilsey House , arrived. meaning to break the news tc Mrs. Hills. of whose presence at the
 Imperial the afternoon papers had tod
 him Dunlap. Atwel, and MT Hils
 according to Atwell, all knew eacr | other T, al crnt tn hitch in and
 s.HiIIs is dead in my hotel. and one , of the two of us must tell his widow.
 answered Dunlap.
 mans brother-in-law. and took hin
 over to the Gilsey House. After iden- tifving MT Hills body Welsch made this statement:
 had long been consulting specialists
 about his heart His death ndeeo
 had been expected daily for over e year He had frequent fainting spe'ls a and of late has sometimes not realized y exactly what he was doing;
 ssIIe came to this city yesterday with e his wife from Plainvt'le- Conn, reacn, 2 ing the Grand Central Station at n o'clock. He took his wife to the I'm V periaI where they always stay wher : in this city. After reaching there ht e complained of feeling i'll and iay o9wr V on the sofa Then he insisted on solns l down. to a business conference Hi' s wife never heard from him afterw' I'd
 'we do not know the woman who i according to the hotel management ii i has been going to the Gilsey House Il with him on and off for four years ol s more. MT Hills was not drinkins
 man. and his habits were exemplarl as far as his family knew.
 , .ezSr Hills came here on Tuesday a evening at about Il o'clock with { f woman. with whom he has come her' s often" said Manager Dunlap of th' |. | asked for a room f and Night Clerk Missick gave them z
 narIor. bedroom. and bath on the thirC = floor MT Hills companion. a woman
 of about thirty-five wrote the name: