New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-19
POLICE INQUIRE INTO
REALTY MANS DEATH
John J. Clancy Falls and Breaks
Skull Trying to Enter a
TaxiCab.
YOUNG WOMAN WITH HIM
Police and District Attorneys
Office Inclined to Believe
the Injury Was
Accidental.
YOUNG WOMAN WITH HIN

John J. Clancy, one of the best known
real estate men of New York City and
reputed To be millionaire. died in
Roosevelt Hospital last night as q result
Of p fractured skull which the police say
At received At an early hour yesterday
morning when ne fell in front OF the
Hotel Grenoble 56th street and Seventh
avenue while preparing to enter n taxi
cab
Lieutenant Sherwood. of the West 47th
street station. was notified yesterday af-
ternoon about / o'clock that there was
2 man i'm Roosevelt Hospital suffering
from 2 fractured skull which he had re-
oeived i'm 4 manner that appeared to re
o0ire police investigation. Detective
Evans was assigned to the case, and he
visited tho hospital and obtained such
Information as he could.
He was informed that Mr. Clancy had
been taken 20 tho hospital in an uncon
scious condition about a. m. yesterday
IN taxicab and was accompanied 10y
q young woman. who gave her name as
Miss Mary Nelson, of n. "a West 4Sth
street. and man who said ne was Al
bert Chester. Of 40. ~ Audubon ave
nue.. The young woman told the hos
piisl authorities that Mr.. Clancy had
received his injury when he fell in front
a the Hotel Grenoble. and in falling.
struck = column i'm front Of the hotel
antrsnce
as6D police say mat Nj Clancy and
Nss Nelson had been IN the hotel din
ing room for some time About o'clock
they We're Joined by Mr.. Chester, and
about that time the manager informed
them that he WAS not permitted 30 scll
liquor after q. m. The hotel mana
ser told the police that the three persons
left there about = o'clock. and attend
snir about the hotel noticed that Mr..
CLANCY fen as he was going to the taxi
can which had been summoned at his
request
lr Ewing. Mr. Clancy's family physi-
cial, called "a The hospital yesterday
morning and, finding him in an uncon-
so.o1s condition. noticed n slight discol-
oraiir over the right eyc Dr. Ewing
requested Captain Gloster, in charge Of
the detectives Of the West 9th street
station. TO investigate the case thor
cIrh't. s1d the District Attorneys Office
notified. Mr.. Strong. Assistant Dis
uict Attorney and Captain Gloster
visited the young woman who was with
NJ cancE al the time Of his visit to
N Grenoblc Hotel.
coroner lIellenstein ordered the body
removed to the morgue TO- an autopsy.
which viii be performed this morning
Both CaItain Gloster and MIR. Strong ex-
lre9s tho belief that the injury was re-
cci ed in an accidental manner.
Mr. CLANCY was ffty-cyen years old.
Hc came to this country from Ireland
with his father before the Civil War.
ana al the bCginning OF that struggle
both father ana son enlisted in Duryea $
Zouavcs. ON account OF his youth Clan
cy was enlisted as drummer boy His
father was killed in action, and Clancy
was later brcvotted as q corporal for
eallantry on the field. After the war he
entered the real estate business and
amassed a fortune.
He became a director and stakeholder
in the Riverside Bank, and from his own
means is said to have furnished the
funds which enabled the bank to stand
. run in the money panic Of 1901. lie
WAS also a large depositor in the in
stitution when it was cloCcd after Joseph
Pobin had secured control