Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Brainard, Clare S. November 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheron Faynor nitwittwin@hotmai.com January 13, 2008, 1:28 am Morning Oregonian November 8,1904 Accident Or Suicice Young Man From Cleveland Found Asphyxiated By Gas Clare S.Brainard, aged 21 years,was found dead at the Buckley lodging house,First and Madison streets, at 9 o'clock Sunday morning.Death had resulted from asphyxiation. The young man's parents reside in Cleveland,O., and he was an employee of the Portland Iron & Wire Company. It is a question whether Brainard's death was due to an accident or a suicide. Frank DeMonnin, the dead man's roommate,who happened not to sleep in the room Saturday night, stated to Coroner Finley that he knew of no reason that the young man should take his own life, and declared Brainard's death due to an accident. The proprietor, because he heard no stir in the room, knocked at the door about 9 o'clock. He got no reply and then broke open the door to find the room filled with gas and Brainard lying in the center of the room on the floor, dead.He immediately notified the coroner. The gas jet was completely turned on and gas was escaping from the stove. DeMonnin stated that he and Brainard had been drinking a little the night before, but that he did not think Brainard was intoxicated. It is DeMonnin's theory that Brainard was taken suddenly ill after having turned on the gas to light it, and was unable afterward to turn it off. The parents of the dead man, who live in Cleveland,O.,were notified of his death and the body was shipped to Cleveland last evening in accordance with their wishes. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/obits/b/brainard77nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/orfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb