New-York tribune., 1912-12-15
THREE WOMEN AND MAN
KILLED BY GAS FUMES
Four Other Persons in Greater
City and Its EnvirOnS Have
Narrow Escapes.
AGED SISTERS FOUND DEAD
Window Was Open, and Police
Scorn Suicide Theory-Jer-
sey Couple Succumb in
Bedroom of Home.

Four persons were found dead last
night as the result Of inhaling illumi-
mating gas. While four others were
saved by the prompt work Of ambu-
lance surgeons after they had been
overcome by gas fumes.
Two of the victims were Margaret
and Esther Carroll, eighty and seventy
eight years old. respectively. who we're
found dead In their room at No. 13I
waverly Place. The others who sue
cumbed were James w. Golden and his
wife, whose bodies were found in bed
at their home In Jersey City.
Edward Hanson, an actor. of No. 634
yelling street, Richmond Hill, and
Morris Lerner and his wife and five
year-old daughter, of No. Gl Stage
street, Williamsburg. were accidentally
overcome by gas. but recovered.
Golden and his wife lived at No. 2i9
Kearny avenue, Jersey city. They had
lain dead in bed since Wednesday night.
An open cock on a gas range I'm the
kitchen had flooded the house with poi
sonous vapor, and was the cause OF the
couples death.
Golden was an employe of lumber
company in Jersey City, and had not
reported for work since Wednesday.
Yesterday his brother law, Robert
Demmit, called 10 learn the reason. He
could not gain access 10 the house, but.
detecting the odor Of gas. broke in a
window and entered. Golden and his
wife were found in bed, and beneath II
was the body Of a pet poodle. Golden
was forty-nine years old, and his wife
was four years younger. They had no
children.
The Carroll sisters were found dead
by Charles Miller, the janitor Of the
rooming house in which the aged
women lived. He informed the police
OF the Charles street station, who sum
moned an ambulance from St. Vim
cents Hospital. DIR. Healey, who re-
sponded, pronounced the two spinsters
dead.
The gas Jet was open and gas was es-
Gaping rapidly when the bodies were
found, but owing to the fact that a
window in the room was open it is not
thought that the case is one Of suicide.
The theory of the police is that the
old ladies went to sleep with the gas
lit and that the draft from the window
blew out the light.
No one at the house where the deaths
occurred knew anything Lbout .he
women except their names and the fact
that they were maiden sisters.
Hansen. who was forty years old
was removed unconscious TO the Ja-
maica Hospital. Jamaica, Queens, late
yesterday afternoon. Hansen's room
was filled with gas and he was found
in bed unconscious. IL is believed be-
fore Hansen went to bed he partly
turned off the gas, allowing enough to
escape 20 fill the room and slowly over
come him. The physicians at the nos
pital say his condition is serious.
Persons living in the tenement house
at No. 61 Stagg street, Williamsburg.
smelled escaping coal gas yesterday
and traced II to the apartments oil
Norris Lerner When the door was
broken in, Lerner, his wife and their
fve-year-old daughter, Rose, were
found unconscious. with gas escaping
from the tube OF gas stove. An am
bulance from the Williamsburg Hos
pital was hastily summoned. and after
working over the unconscious persons
for several minutes. the surgeon sue
ceeded in reviving them.
ATLANTIC COAST LINE,