Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-17
+ FOURTH VICTIM
Of CAS- POISON
ADDED To TOLL
Arthur E. King Found Dead as
Fumes Escape from
Open Jet.
BELIEVE HE ACCIDENTALLY
PULLED TUBE FROM STOVE
Another in Hospital Thought
Dying-MOurning for Tot,
Woman Ends Life.

of gas poisoning there was added
/. today the name of Arthur E.
King, OF 16s Orange street. Early to-
day King, VINO is 80 years old, a
laborer. employed in New York, was
I found by his father seated in a rock
! ing chair in the kitchen Gas was
escaping from a small stove. An ex-
! animation by an ambulance physician
! showed that King had been dead for
hours 1t was the belief of County
Physician Mckenzie that sinking
YEARLY into the chair he accidentally
pulled the tube from the gas stove and
was asphyxialed.
King, with other members of his FAM
lily, returned from visit to friends in
/, Brooklyn about midnight. Before re-
/ firing he sat down in chair in the
basement kitchen. Early this morning
his father, William H. King, noticed
, the odor of gas and traced it to the
kitchen, where he found the body of his
son. The county physician issued a
burial certif1cate.
Deadly illuminating Gas.
! Deadly illuminating gas claimed as
victims in this city yesterday Mrs
/ Gertrude Beeger, 3S years old. of 5l5
! Fifteenth avenue. who committed sui
eide; Mrs. Cordelia Leyser. "a years old
+. of 230 Bank street, and Otto Loos, IL
! years old, of 157 South Tenth street
J who were accidentally overcome. There
! are in addition three victims of gas
poisoning in the City Hospital, one OF
whom may not recover. They are
Katherine Click, 20 years old, of Il
/ Wall street; Story Lack, rs eyars old
i oil Whlppany, and William Bosocter, q
/ years old. of Whippany. The latter two
are not In serious condition.
Mrs. Gertrude Beeger, the wife of
prosperous butcher, last night lay upol
a couch in the kitchen and inhaled ga
that poured from two jets in ga
stove until death overlook her Sh'
had been dead about three hours whei
the husband returned from a trip out o
the city and found her. Before turning
on the gas and lying down to die shs
wrote the following note, leaving it ON ;
dresser in the dining-room:
/ Joe Had l never spoken to thai
woman my life would still be happy
Ny life isn't worth living since / made
that fatal mistake. Take good care oi
the boy (Joseph, a 10-year-old son).
love him still. All lived for was m,
children. Q, God o, Codi for me Il
make that mistake. I that loved m.
child on the verge of madness. o. hac
never been born" The note was writ
ten on piece of bag and was unsigned
County Physician William H. McKen
! zie. who attended the little girl, wal
called and issued a burial permit
Medicine for Cough.
/ The woman referred to is a neighbol
who advised her to give her little CIR
a proprietary remedy for whoopinl
/, cough last summer. The child diet
week later in convulsions and th'
mother could never be persuaded tha
she had not caused its death. DR.. Me
Kenzie says he has tried to tell her il
vain that she was not responsible 70
the tot death.
Mrs. Leyser was found dead shortly
! William Leyser County Physician
. w 4iJld1l II. Al0NGllLl6 1llNeSIlkdi ~
thoroughly. He finally set at rest ths
rumors of suicide that threatened K
gain credence in the neighborhood BY
issuing a certificate ascribing death Il
accidental gas poisoning.
! Loos was also overcome by gas escap
! ing probably from a carelessly shut-of
/ jet. Efforts to revive him failed. Tn
county physician said death was acci
dental
| Katherine Click, who is not likely Il
recover, was found in a gas-flled sleep
: ing chamber soon after $50 o'clocl
yesterday morning at Is Ticheno
street. where she is a servant in tn,
boarding house conducted there by Mrs
Louisa Hahn.
/ To Henry Brown, a night porter a
! the Park Hotel. 49S Broad street. Lazel
| and Bosocter, both of whom are Polish
owe their escape from death. Brow
was passing room e6, which they haC
engaged the night before. at III
O'Clock yesterday morning when HI
smelled gas Breaking in the door, h
found both unconscious and the room
filled with gas, which had escaped
from a Jet improperly shut off. The!
were taken to the City Hospital, wher'
both are now console Is and give prom
Use of complete recovery.