Unconscious From The Gas

ED HORTON TOOK A ROOM AND TURNED IT ON. 

Denied It But He May Have Done It In Trying to Put Out Electric Light.

Ed Horton hd a narrow escape from asphyxiation by gas at the American house Thursday night. He is a well digger, whose parent used to live in Bridgewater, but who himself has no permanent place of abode. He put up at the American house near midnight and was shown to room 38. A half hour later Emil Walters, the bell boy who had shown him his room, smelled gas and climbing over the transom found Horton unconscious in bed. The windows and transom were both closed and the unlighted gas was turned on full force. When shown his room the electric light had been turned on. SWhen Walters got in over the transom the room was dark. Horton was somewhat the worse for liquor. 

When aroused he denied turning on the gas, but thought possibly he might have done it in trying to turn off the electric light.