The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-18
AUTOPSY MAY
 SHED LIGHT ON
 SESSLER DEATH
New Haven Man Believed to Have Been Victim of Some Kind of Narcotic Poison

To determine exactly what kind oi Charles J. Se:ssler, New. Haven spe- cial policeman, in this city yesterday, Medical Examiner Garhck performed d
 an autopsy upon the body of the dead man at Rourke & Rourke's morgue this afternoon. The operations re- quires the removal of the stomach and a chemical analysis of its con tents
 Meantime detectives under the di- rection of Deputy Coroner Henry c.
 Stevenson are tracing the movements
 of Sessler from the time he left his
 work in New. Haven, to the time he
 was stricken in Chinese restaurant
 in this city, apparently from the ef-
 fects of opium poisoning.
 SeSSler was son of Charles A.
 Sessler, a New Haven policeman, and
 was employed as a special watchman at the Hotel Taft in New Haven.
 Some time Saturday he came to this
 city. About 11:15 p. m. Saturday
 night he entered a Chinese restaurant
 known as "The Orient on Water
 street. Inmates of the place noted
 his pallor and dazed appearance anI
 the experienced eyes of the Chinese
 proprietor saw the effects of opium
 in Sessler's narrowed eyeballs and
 dull expression.
 The man ordered a steak but be- fore his order was served, fell to the floor in stupor. The. ambulance corps was summoned and the sur
 geons found marked indications of some form of opium poisoning. Ses- sler was rushed to St. Vincent's hos pital, where all efforts to rally him proved fruitless and he died at o'clock fin the morning.
 Relatives of the dead man scout the idea of suicide and think that SpQSlar'c dnQfh hauo honr1 d1Jo n asthmatic attacks to which he was subject. Apparently this was not borne out by the autopsy which seem ed to verify the belief that some kind of poison had caused Sesslers death. At press hour the autopsy had no. progressed far enough to determine the exact nature of the poison.
 Sessler had for two months been day watchman at the new Taft hotel, where he worked all day, and long into the night. Saturday morning, about o'clock, he took his parents last seen of him here. At that time he appea1ed to be we'll, and in the best of health. His wife, who resides at A Olive street, said she had nor seens him since he left the house Sat- urday morning, so it is presumed thar after leaving his@ parents. He was when he entered the restapr&nt and no one can be found who / sAw him in Bridgeport. His father believes he took the 8:30 train from this city to Bridgeport and be- came to the chop suey house, he must have received or taken the drug. The police are trying to account for his during that time.
 The Sessler family scout the idea of a drug taken with the intention of ,i-fI I<se,< s.--r that his son was subject to attacks of asthma, and had frequently been seized in like manner with when he was at home. He believed that he had been attacked with such a coughing spell. Saturday and had been unable to recover. T believe ne was stricken with acute i'm digestion. He left us at the Taft ho- tel in happy frame of mind and there was no reason for him to take his life" said MT. Sessler. We were notified this morning and Mrs. Sessler and myself went down to Bridgeport where we have been all day, investi- gating the circumstances of his death. We visited the restaurant and hospit- al,. but could find nothing to indicate what caused his death."
 Mrs. Sessler, too, when seen at g o'clock, just as she had notified her sons wife at the rooms in Olive street, OLAPAAclliCdI1y any SdSpAClOA OI foul play or 'self-destruction.
 Mrs. Charles J. -Sessler, the dead 1 mans wife, had not been notified by 1 Mrs: Charles A. Sessler until last | evening, and She was prostrated by the news. At the suggestion of her 1 father, who ordered her to say 1 nothing, she refused to talk about the natter. Sessler was thirty-one years 1 of age. ,He is survived by his wife l and parents, and brothers and sis I :ers, who have the sympathy of their | hosts of friends in their affliction l Four years ago Sessler was upon the | police force of the l ,ity but he had given up the office | some time ago, and last employed as | | watchman at the Taft