New Britain herald., 1916-01-07
CURTIS PROBABLE SUICIDE.
 MEDICAL EXAMINER REPORT
Southington Bank Cashier, Whose AccOui Were Being Looked Over, Took Dose
 of COncentratedAmmOnia

Hartford, Jan. L. ProDaDly eide" is the finding of Medical E2 iner Willard c. Steadman in his8 port submitted today to CorondN Gilbert Calhoun of Hartford Cox as the cause of the death of Lou Curtis, cashier of the SouthinM National Bank, on Wednesday "A noon.
 The latest information is thaN there is any shortage in the acccz of the deceased cashier, it is prolk small. The exact status. of thdR counts, say the examiners, cannds determined until the whereabouz certain securities is discovered.
 The medical examiners r4 reads: He took what seemed tS concentrated ammonia and died very short time. Whether it taken with suicidal intent or rl could not learn. The time elal between the taking of the dose death was not over twenty mini He made no complaint or stated to his wife, who was present unl few minutes after taking the when she asked him what wad matter and he said I am dying. Expert Chemical Analysis Requi
 ''I have the remains of the Il from which he took the dose, am unable to say whether or there was anything else in it.
 Tt would require an expert c1 teal anayIsis to determine. Will you a sample if you wish. Died the bed in his own home
 Probably suicide"
 The medical examiner leaves printed part of the report, stl that he considers an inquest unnI sary, untouched.
 Death Certificate Not Signed
 Medical Examiner Steadman afternoon said he had not yet si the death certificate because he { not be absolutely sure of the of death. He admitted that. Curtis had taken a dose of amnI solution that was stronger than comm only used as a stimu Whether or not MT. Curtis was a, toned to use the drug as a stimulant he had been unable tr certain.
 He said that death might or n not have been caused by drinkins ammonia, but not even an aut could definitely determine this f
 Sturges Denies Examination.
 State Bank Commissioner stu said today that the statement
 the bank had been examined by state commissioners department July, and pronounced 70. K", erroneous, as the state banking partment had no jurisdiction national banks and had never Il an examination of the SouthinI National Bank.
 Securities Can't Be Found
 The federal examiners later they had been unable to find ceA papers and securities but they 4 buted this, it was said, to Cd "old-style'' bookkeeping. Directora the bank said that the institution ready to pay all claims against ia
 Collapsed at Bank.
 Southington, Jan. 7-Louis K. \ tis, cashier of the Southington tional bank, was taken i'll in the \ after closing time Wednesday, lapsed and died a short time late3 his room over the bank. Med Examiner Steadman who was on5 the physicians hurriedly called toI Curtis aid did not make forS finding on the death. The cause obscure. On a table nearby is to have been found a tumbler which a solution had been mi whether something to relieve Curtis condition or to produce it being clearly determined at the so far as can be learned A
 Accounts Said to Be Correct.
 At the time MT. Curtis was taz ill federal bank examiners "ers the bank on their regular per- call to examine the books and secM ties. This examination was not cM pIeted yesterday and may not be8 dav it was stated at the bank. further statement was authorized W the examination so far as it had l# gressed had shown everything toE absolutely correct, even to a pen MT. Curtis funeral was to be lM this afternoon.
 Father of Mrs. w. H. Booth.