Evening star., 1938-07-16
SAMUEL |NSULL
EXPIRES IN PARIS
Of HEART ATTACK
Fallen Utilities Magnate
Stricken in Subway.
Widow CoIIapses.
WARNED HIM, SHE SAYS,
AGAINST USE OF TRAINS
Former Midwest Magnate Arrived
in France Last Monday
to Visit Wife.
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, July 16.-Samuel insult,
7s, fallen ooO,OOO,Ooo ruler of Mid
west utilities empire, died suddenly
early this afternoon. officials said he
collapsed from a heart attack in
subway train.
insult was taken by subway en-
ployes to the nearby -Marmottan
Emergency Hospital in the Etoile
district.
- Mrs. insult, in state of collapse
when she reached the hospital, said
that when she left their hotel apart
ment at noon the aging magnate told
her he was going to write few let
ters and then go to lunch.
IT had told him never to take
subway because it was bad for his
heart" she said, weeping.
Suffered From Heart.
First reports when the former
financier's body was brought to the
hospital said he had been killed in
the street by hit-and-run driver.
Police, however, said a heart ailment
from which he had suffered for sew
eral years naQ proved 1dCdl.
After collapsing when she saw the
body, Mrs. insult received restoratives
and then at once sent cable to her
son, Samuel, jr., in Geneva, ILL.,, noti-
Tying him of his fathers death.
insult only last Monday reached
Paris, which four years ago was the
first stop on his dramatic cross-Europe
flight to evade embezzlement charges
growing out Of collapse of his utilities
empire in 1882. This time he was on
a trip to visit Mrs. insult.
Dad died suddenly afternoon. Love.
Mother" said Mrs. insults message to
her son.
Dead on Reaching Hospital.
Soon after insult was brought into
the hospital DR.. Edmund L. Gros.
chief of the medical staff of the
American Hospital in Paris, was called
to the Emergency Hospital. Hospital
authorities said insult was dead upon
arrival
Mrs. insult confirmed that the heart
seizure occurred on a subway train.
I'm all alone now," she said, weep
ing as she told Of his death.
Mrs. insult was visiting friends in
Chantilly, short distance north of
Paris, when she received word OF the
death.
Later she said she had asked
friends to take charge of all arrange
Ments for her.
Samuel Insults sudden death was
q shock to Chicago's financial district
where he was for so long a dominant
figure, but it caused no commotion
in financial circles. The concerns
which he formed and once controlled
have long been in other hands.
Following the price drop in 1929
and financial collapse of key COM
panies of the insult empire later, the
man whose dream of a giant power
system approached reality when he
was at the height of influence grad
ually relinquished his business affairs.
BY the time of his trial and acquit-
tai on charges in connection with
the financial difficulties of his utilities
organization, insult was completely
divorced from any direction of the
many companies in the so-called In
sull group.
Financial Dxperts said his death
would havevho effect on these COM
panies
The only connection retained by his
family with them is held by his son,
Samuel insult, jr. The younger insult
is assistant to the man who succeeded
his father as chairman of the Com
monwealth Edison Co., James Simpson.
This concern dominates the electric
light and power field in the Chicago
metropolitan area
Napoleon of Business.
Samuel insult, a true Napoleon OF
modern business, forced himself from
penury to great power, lost his possess
sions, rallied for final fight against
criminal trials and went down to de-
feat after spectacular campaign
which attracted world attention.
London, where he was born Novem-
ber IL, 1859, was his Corsica, a $50-a-
month clerkship with Thomas A. Edi-
son was his commission in the COM
mercial army public utilities system
capitalized at $4,000 0oo, 900 and touch
(See INSULL, Page A-4)