Thomas Doring, insulator presser at Hemingray dies of alcoholism in Lockport, NY

MUNCIE MAN DIES

IN A PRISON CELL

THOMAS DORING,

DE­SPONDENT OVER

FRIEND’S ALLEGED

COOLNESS TOOK TO

DRINK AND DIED FAR

FROM HOME.

Despondent because of the death of his wife, which occurred about a year ago, and because he thought the friend that he had gone all the way from Muncie to Lockport, N. Y., to see, did not want him as a visitor, Thomas Doring, 61 years old, an insulator presser at Hemingray's fac­tory here, took to drink in Lockport and died in a cell at police head­quarters there this morning of al­coholism.

He ceased work in the Hemin­gray factory about two weeks ago and finally went to Lockport to visit Albert MacGregor, arriving at his friend’s home last Thursday, so a special dispatch to the Press from Lockport today says.

MacGregor, so the Lockport po­lice say, told Doring to go to a hotel to stay, whereupon Doring, it is said, became highly incensed and started to drink, being finally arrested.

"I feel unwell and fear that I am going to die," he told Police Sergeant Rapp, early this morning. He was given a stimulant and seemed to revive but a few minutes later he grew worse and before a physician arrived he had breathed his last. The body was removed to the morgue where it will be kept until relatives are notified. The man had $20 in his clothing when arrested.

Doring had no sons or daughters.