Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-03
IDENTIFY MAN
IN FATAL FALL
Believe Ohioan Leaped From
Sixth Story Window.

man identified today as George NJ.
Hershey, &C. of Xenia, o., was killed in
4 fail from a building at ): 10 O'clock yes
terday afternoon.
Hershey fell in the alley between the
Hume Mansur building and the Bankers
Trust building, and died within a few
minutes after being placed in an am
bulance.
Wilbur Hershey, 21S North Senate
avenue, 4 brother. identified the body
as that Of his brother George.
He called at the Kregelo Bailey
undertak ers morgue and viewed the body
and after identifying it as his brother he
ordered II removed to Finn Brothers, 1S5
West Market street.
INVESTIGATION WOULD
INDICATE SUICIDE.
Investigation made by the authorities
into the case indicated that he probably
had committed suicide, it WAS said to-
day. although the death may have been
accidental.
1t was learned that Hershey had been
in i'll health since suffering an attack
Of influenza some months ago. and It
is said that he had been treated By Dr.
&. W. Seaton.
Hershey, it IS said, made frequent Wis
its to Dr. Seaton's office, $40 Bankers
Trust building
It is believed he went to the office
of that physician yesterday afternoon.
Whether Hershey plunged from the
window OF DR.. Seaton's offi"e or from
window Of 1 Mushroom located south
Of that office could not be learned.
The washroom is reached by an IN
locked door from the hallway. and the
window of the room was open at the time
OF the fall.
The narrowness OF the window and the
passageway leading to 1t indicated that
the man. II he fell from that window
did not do so accidentally, police say.
DR.. SeatOn could neither be found at
his home nor at his Office.
His office hours in the afternoon end
at .. m and Hershey met his death
at $50 p. N.
To reach the outside window OF DR.
Seaton's office it would be necessary 10
enter his private office, and the door is
kept locked when the physician is not
there.
HERSHEY WORKED
IN INDIANAPOLIS.
This would indicate. the authorities
say. that Hershey probably fell from the
washroom window and not the window OF
the physicians office
Hershey was unmarried. He was en-
ployed at the Parry Manufacturing plant,
IN the automobile department.
The dead man had rOomed at the
North Senate avenue address, where his
brother lives. since coming to Indian
apolis from Xenia.
The body was removed to the morgue
Of KreglO x Bailey, funeral directors. 532
North Pennsylvania street and after the
coroner had examined It 4 number OF per-
sons viewed il in an effort to establish
the identity Of the dead man.
Sergt Houston, Detectives Duncan and
DeRossette started an investigation ini-
mediately following the report of the &C.
c.dent.
Booker T. Starks, 10, negro, 73S North
California street, who was standing ia
the alley. saw the man falling, but saw
him just before his body struck the
pavement, and could not tell from where
lie fell.
Melvin Masters, 234e Broadway, Sit
ting IN his office on the fourth floor
OF the Hume Mansur building. saw the
mans body pass his office window.
W. r. Widdop. 296O1a College avenue.
saw the man falling and when he irst
fourth floor Of the buildings
II was at first thought that the man
might have been a painter employed IN
work near the top Of the Bankers Trust
building. but this was disprOved.
Paul Robertson. secretary of the Hume
Mansur building company investigated
and says he does not believe the man
fell from a window Of that building.