Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-13
REVOLVER WENT OFF
 WHILE PACKING KIT
Lyme Frierds Learn Details of Death
 of Arthur Crosby Ludington

Friends of the late Arthur Crosby Ludington of New York city and Lyme have learned that his death in Lon don came through the accidental dis charge of a revolver, when packing his equipment for Red Cross work in an ambulance corps on the continent
 The body will arrive in New York on the steamship Adriatic, November 19, and the funeral will be held on Sunday, November 22, at Lyme.
 MT. Luddington was well known in political and sorial reform circles and his loss to those laboring for better era in politics, especially in New York, will be keenly felt.
 The first news of the accident, which occurred on Wednesday, November 4, was received by Prof. Felix Frankfur- tere of Harvard law school, who was informed by cable from London by a friend Of MT. Ludington. A telephone message was immediately sent from Boston to MT Luddington's brother, Charles Ludington, of Philadelphia. On Friday he received another cablegram saying an inquest had been held and the verdict of accidental death rem dered by a coroner's jury.
 At the inquest Lord Eustace Percy of the foreign office, formerly an att tache of the British embassy in Wash ington, where he and MT. Ludington had been identified with a group of political thinkers and publicists, tes- tified that he had arranged to dine with MT. Ludington at the Automobile club Wednesday evening. Shortly be- fore the time appointed MT. Luding- ton was found dead. A physician tes- tified that the direction of the bullet suggested that he had been examining the pistol when it discharged acciden- tally. Unmailed letters found in his apartment in Georgian house, where the shooting occurred, spoke cheerfully ,4F in better physical condition than for years past
 MT: Ludington left this country some months ago, for a visit to England, fol- lowed by a trip around the world. It was his intention to visit New eZa- land and other countries in which par ticularly effectivve social progress had been made. At the outbreak of hos tilities his contemplated journey had to be abandoned. He devoted himself for some time to a. study of the causes of the war, and then, from deep sym pathy with the principles for which the allies are fighting desired to enter the English army. Finding that Ann erican citizens were not being accept ed. he volunteered his services to the Red Cross.
 MT. Luddington was a son of the late Charles Henry and Josephine Moves Ludington of New York and Lyme, Conn. He was 34 years old, a graduate of Yale university, class of 1902.
 After leaving college he was con- nected for three years with a broker age firm in New York, and then went to Princeton as instructor and assist ant to President Wilson He then, in 1909, studied in Heidelberg university and later took courses at Columbia At this time he identified himself with political reform work in New York. and took an especial interest in the betteerment of election laws. He was active in framing the direct nomina- tions and Massachusetts ballot bills, which are now laws of New York state. He served for several years as a n1em- Der of the legislative committee of the Citizens union of New York city and was active in thet National Short Bal lot association.
 He was a member of the American Political Science association. the Am erican Academy of Political and So- cial Science, the American Association for Labor Legislation, National Mhni- cipal league, Intercollegiate Civic league, New York Civil Service Re- form association, New York Tax Re- form association, Citizens union, City club. New York and Metropolitan club a. Washington
 Before going abroad he was attach ed to the department of the interior at Washington, and wrote a special report on. the Indian policy of the United States government