Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-06-30
HOTEL MYSTERY
y IS SOLVED?
II. T. D Albert, 1t Is Thought,
Has Committed
Suicide
LEFT CLAIRE HOTEL JUNE 12
Four Days After Wandered to
National Cemetery and
Took Poison

The mystery Of the fate Of the
young, well dressed, polished young
man who came to the Claire hotel
Sunday June ;, registering as H. T.
D'Albert, New York" and who disap-
peared Sunday, June u, after having
cut all Identification marks off his
clothing seems to be solved. 1t is
thought that he committed suicide
though his body has not yet been
! found.
A man answering D'Albert's descrip-
| ton wandered to the National ceme-
| terry Thursday, June 16, and seemed to
/ be in a dazed condition though he
talked coherently to Mrs. w. A. Ken
dali the wife of the superintendent.
| He was either greatly weakened from
consumption or was dying of hungr,
i having wandered aimlessly about for
| for glass of water and said nothing
i about feeling hungry. Taking out a
little vial he poured some of the wa
ter into it, then shaking the contents
| he swallowed the solution and start
cd toward the city. He left the bot
! tie and tumbler near the Kendall
home and both were thrown over the
fence. Yesterday the Kendalls search
ed for the bottle and found it. On the
label was written in large letters,
Poison and underneath were the
customary skull and bones. The
young man had said when he took the
liquid that it was his medicine, but it
may have been a deadly drug he had
kept in his pocket as the last resort 10
end his suffering.
| 1t may be that the unfortunate
young man wandered around the
woods and finally lad down and died.
still keeping the secret of his identity
i with him.
Mrs. kendaII's' Story
,! A reported called on Mrs. Kendall
yestel day and after talking with her
rode around the cemetery searching 10
vain for traces of D'Albert or the man
who had visited the KendaIl's Thurs
day.
1T was about O'Clock in the after
noon,' said Mrs. Kendall, when a
well dressed young man, in dark sui,
which semed too large for him. callei
at the house and seemed to be suffer
ing exhaustion. He asked for some
water and l gave it to him. He said
that he had come out from New Jersey
and was health seeker. | asked him
if he was stopping at hotel and he
said that he was but he could not
think of the name. | asked him if
perhaps he had not put the hotels
name in his memorandum book and
pulling out little book he said that
he had written it in the book. The
Claire hotel was the name of his resi-
dence. He said that he had left his
baggage at the depot and had not yet
had it brought up. He complained
about feeling weak and told him that
he ought to have stayed at home as he
was in no condition to travel He said
that the physicians had ordered him
to come out to New Mexico"
Mrs. Kendall then described how the
tourist had poured a little water into
a vial he carried with him and had
drunk the contents after stating that
this was medicine he was accustomed
to take.
D'AIbert's Disappearance.
The description Mrs. Kendall gave
tallies with that of H. 7. D'Albert, the
young man who mysteriously d1sap-
peared from the Claire hotel where for
a week he had acted peculiarly, speak
ing to no one and staying out doors
most of the day. He had room 29 and
left dress suit case in it, with IA col
. lars, four shirts, some winter and
summer underwear, and some toilet
= articles. He left also vest from
= which the inside pocket had been cut,
and all of the initials or marks on his
:, underwear had been cut off with some
sharp instrument. Two of his col
lars were marked indicating they had
! been laundered in March and in April
OF THIS, the full Qdue DelnS WrlIlen oul.
No Papers Found.
, There was not a scrap OF paper TO
indicate who D'Albert really was. for
Il it is not thought that this was his
right name. He wrote his name back
hand and he did not receive any mail
}. here under that name. 1t is thought
:, that a man, in poor health as he prob
e ably was, would certainly get letters
d from his relatives in the east.
< The theory is held by some that
It D'Alhert was in such poor health that
7. he lost interest in life and left the
L Claire Sunday morning wandering
a around for days until he finally sank
O exhausted somewhere in the suburbs