New-York tribune., 1913-11-17
/ R. A. LannOm, Louisville
Sophomore, Meets Death in
Same Way as Son of
Late John Hay.
MILKMAN DISCOVERS BODY
Theory Is Student Rose from
Bed to Get Water on Ledge
and in Reaching for
Bottle Lost His
Balance.
re, Telegraph TO The Tribune. }

Vow Haven, Nov. 16-John Robert
Alexander Lannom, nineteen years old,
sonhonore at Yale University. was
,iued this morning by falling thirty
t.st from the window of his room in
Durfee Hall to the sidewalk. No one
rnew of he accident until the youths
hodv was discovered about @ o'clock by
q milkmau passing in his delivery
wagon.
The milkman went to night lunch
wagon Just beyond the campus. where
no telephoned to the police, and
ratrolman was sent 10 the scene.
Word also was sent to Coroner Mix and
Medical Examiner Scarborough hut
more than an hour had elapsed before
they arrived and permission was given
70 remove the body from the walk. In
the mean time a large crowd had
gathered. including many who were on
their way to early church services.
The body was finally taken TO an
undertaking establishment and will be
shipped to Lannon's home, at Louis
VILE tomorrow noon. The funeral
will be held in Battell Chapel to-mor-
row morning, the services being con-
Quoted by the college pastor
Lannon's fall recalls in many details
the accident in which Adelbert Hay,
son Of the late John Hay, Secretary Of
State. lost his life during commence
ment week, 1901, while attending the
reunion of the class of '9S, to which he
belonged. He had retired to his room
on the third story of the New Haven
House about midnight and was found
about o'clock in the morning lifeless
on the sidewalk directly under his win
dow. In both instances the low sills Of
the old fashioned buildings made the
fall easily possible.
Lannom was the son of John l.. Lam
nom, a grocer, Of No. T23 South 9th
street, Louisville. He prepared for
Yale at the Louisville High School, and
was one of the first scholars in his coll
lege class. He won several honors dur
ing his freshman year, specializing in
the classics. The young man roomed
with Edwin Stein, of New York City,
elassmate. Stein said this evening:
Il saw Lannom last at supper ,ast
evening. He and l went out with diff
ferent parties Of friends to spend the
evening | came in after midnight.
Lannom had retired and was asleep. |
went 10 bed and the next ! knew a pO-
hceman had aroused me and was in
forming me that my roommate had
been killed by falling 10 the sidewalk.
1T is my belief that Lannom was
either walking in his sleep or that he
mad stepped TO the open window Of his
sleeping room to get the bottle of
spring water We keep there. He had
failed TO grasp it and had reached after
II as it fell from the sill. becoming un-
balanced i'm the effort and going out of
the window. He made no sound which
heard as he fell"
stein denied there was any indication
that Lannorn had been drinking. Both
Stein and Lannom had attended the
Yale Princeton football game yestcr-
day and had gone out with other Yale
men to celebrate quietly the gridiron
event in which the Yale eleven had
SHOWN unexpected strength. Both the
loung men, according to members OF
me faculty, were studious and their
habits were Of the best.
Stein is a nervous wreck as a result
the accident. His father, a gradu-
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