Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-18
DIED WHILE PAINTING
 RiDGEBoARD ON ROOF.
silas Mott Stricken With Heart Dis-
 ease In New London.

Death came to SiIas Mott, II years old, Wednesday afternoon while he was trying to paint the ridgeboard of the house at 135 Crystal avenue, New Lon don. MT. Mott had climbed the ladder. His feet rested against round of this ladder. His left arm was crooked over the ridgeboard. In this way the body was prevented from falling.
 Dr. Harold H. Heyer, deputy medi- cal examiner, who investigated Mr. Mott's sudden death, said that it was due to a disease of the heart. It was undoubtedly brought on, the official said, by the unusual exertion in climb ing and reaching.
 MT. Mott's death was discovered by Lewis l. Allen. a painter, engaged at work nearby, MT. Allen was on the ground when Edward Hopkins, an other painter who was on the roof of the house next but one to that on which MT. Mott was woTklAg, called to hims
 sThe old gentleman on the roof has, mt moved for some time and there seems to be something the matter with him."
 MT, Hopkins could see MT. Motts hat and hand above the rfdgeboard. Mir. Allen ran to the street and into the yard of No. 135, ascending the ladder from the ground to the caves. There he saw the body was lifeless. He climbed farther up on the roof till he reached MT. Mott's side and could feel his pulse.
 Dr. Heyer was summoned in the ab- sence from the city of Medical Exam iner Lee. He viewed the body on the roof and sanctioned it's removal to the ground.
 H. Fl. Hanson, a painter, supplied a rope by which the body was lowered by policemen and volunteers. An ex- animation of the body convinced the medical examiner that death was due to disease of the heart. He gave permission for the burial of the body.
 Witnesses told the medical examiner that Mott had died a few minutes previous to 1-2e P. m.. He came to Allen about l. 10 o'clock and asked for the use of a ladder for a few minutes in reaching the roof. He had a short CT ladder by which he intended to reach the ridgeboard. The elderly man remarked to the painters that the work was out of his line and it was a little too much for him to do but he guessed he would try to do it. He explained that he had been suffering from blood poisoning in the hand which prevented his holding a paint pot and brush and that to paint the ridgeboard he must set the paint pot in gutter and climb up with a brush full of paint
 After getting the ladder to the roof Mott climbed up three times, dipping the brush in the paint at each de- scent. He had painted about ten feet of the ridgeboard, which showed three reaches of the brush, when death came to him.
 Allen said that when he reached the side of the man on the roof the body was still warm, but there was not the faintest pulse and no sign of breath ing. He was convinced that life was extinct and that nothing could be ac- complished by taking down the body. He accordingly returned to the ground and awaited the arrival of the police and the medical examiner.
 The house on which Mr. Mott died is owned by Mrs. Mott and is occu- pied by Charles H. Newton. locomotive engineer, who is a son of Mrs. Mott. MT. Mott is a native og Norwalk. where two sons survive.
 MT. Mott and Mrs. Newton, widow. were married in New London about two years ago, Since then they had lived most of the time in NorwaIk. where MT. Mott owns property. He was a veteran of the Civil War and prominent in Grand Army of the Re- public circles.