New-York tribune., 1910-07-21
uise Tries to Hide Identity of
Man Found Shot in Colo
NAL Park.
NAY BE LONDON LECTURER
us Declares He Was Clergy
man Seeking Pulpit, but She
Gives Different Names
70 Authorities.

- yesterday afternoon, developed
=, considerable OF a mystery last night.
-, onlv person in the city who seemed
~ conversant with all the facts was
us5ov OF the dead man. and she told
e,-sjcsfng stories Of her husbands
Identification
a. pstrolrnan Coogan, Of the West
,zas street station. was passing Colonial
p,-k At Z point in Bradhurst avenue
-ss- 153d street shortly after 8 o'clock
,,sz.e nav morning he heard & shot
! m.king his way in the direction from
-h;cb the shot came. he arrived al the
,,,elest spot il the park. and there be
ere z bench he saw the body OF man
xss- the body was a revolver. From
.,s nature Of the wound the patrolman
ss,i5ed that he must have placed the
-,,zzle OF the revolver in his mouth and
-r,Iled the trigger
The nan was dead when Dr.. Fulton
s--ived from Harlem Hospital, and the
ho6v was removed 10 the west lid
erect station There e search OF the
body revealed the presence OF cards and
-spsrs that seemed sufficient proof that
me dead man was Arthur Hall. Of Lon
England Later his wife was found
81 their lodgings, No 2G Irving Place,
sn5 she went to the Harlem Morgue.
vhither the body had been taken. and
sad i vas that OF her husband. the Rev.
sthel-tane Arthur Hall
Here After Psstorate, Says Wife.
- =
n6 and that he came TO New York about
eight months ago in the hope OF obtain
.ng e pastorate- She was unable 10 &C
oount for his committing suicide, she
szid. as he was a man Of means, in good
s-anding and had everything 10 live for.
she sad that she would make arrange
-rsuts for the funeral and then started
70 leave the norgue In the doorway
| sas collapsed and became hysterical, and
I was some time before the keeper and
re nan who had accompanied her could
ozln her
The body was taken TO Bellevue
rnorEue late in the afternoon, still re
cor5ed under the name of Hall. The
widow meanwhile had obtained the ser
vices OF an undertaken, and an enploye
Of the letter went 70 the Coroners' office
with an order from the widow asking for
TIE custody Of the body
Coroner Holtzhauser refused 70 issue
the permit. however, unless the widow
appeared in person. This Information
vas conveyed 10 her, and early in the
evening she went 10 the Office and made
q aHdavft- In this document she iden-
used The suicide as "AIhelsrane Corn
firth. Z preacher, forty-nine, born in
EnCla-d." q" and obtained the permit
A. -he Bellevue morgue II was said
that The body had been taken away. and
a. the undertaker' establishment II was
sad that Mrs Cornforth had left the
Irving Place address, and had gone TO
stay with friends II Harlem Beyond
IhsI ignorance as TO her exact where
s5outs was professed- She and her hus-
hand had lived in Irving Place about six
months. il was said there, but little
seemed 70 be known about them
That Hall or Cornforth had come 10
this CITY in the hope OF obtaining a
Vastorate seemed 70 be assured, al
though az the Office OF the register Of
he New York diocese 1t was said that
TIE man had under neither OF the names
fastened on him yesterday made appIica-
tion here for q charge Several proni-
nent cIergynen in the city said that
they had never heard OF him
suicide Cambridge Man.
The American representative Of a Lon
Con news bureau which is Investigating
Inc mystery. said last night that the
nan was undoubtedly of some proni-
nence in England. as he was a Cam
bridge man, having the degrees of B A
and Ii D.. and references from a num-
Or q well known persons in London.
ne vas lecturer on philosophical and
religious subjects. and occasionally oc-
e1pled the pulpits OF some OF the i'm
po-tant English churches.
From information that was apparent
~ borne out by the evidence the man
Aac come 70 the United States in The
expectation Of finding profitable en-
lioyment- That he had failed 10 do so
-ao proved upon his mind until he had
ostermined 10 end the ceaseless striving
-lst seemed destined 10 bring no result
ne clothing ne wore was OF excellent
material and well cut Ee had the ap-
peafance q prosperity, although when
Fstro-ran Coogan discovered his body
mere was nc money in the pockets
Photograph Of the suicide, found
u his body. referred 10 his solicitor.
r. Aaron. No. Ga Moorgste street,
LONDON and his friend, 4. 3. Mendel-
SUN, care Of the former An engraved
S@fq q the Eccentric Club. a London
oieanlzatlon. with quarters in Shaftes-
N-rg avenue, near Piccadilly Circus, re-
elesteo the courtesies Of the Greenroom
C4l6. in this city. for Mr. Arthur Hall,
Z 4. Il. D. who is member of this
Suo IN good standing"
81 the back OF another card was a
note q Introduction 10 Sir Casper Pur-
1'H Clarke Reference 10 Hall as a
sfnoridge man was made in this note
mere was also a letter signed Your
Dio1her DAVID" pUrporting TO be sent
-ioin No I414 Hyde street. San Fran
sc SC Everything pointed 10 the sui
.e being Hall until his wife made
eanosvlt that his name was Cornforth-
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