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Show Victim of Hotel Death Sent To Pennsylvania The body of Roy Hicks, 43, a world war veteran of Fargo, North Dakota who died Thursday at the Senior hotel, was claimed by his wife Mrs. Roy Hicks and was shipped, ship-ped, according to her wishes, by the A. Y. Wheeler Mortuary Saturday Sat-urday to Pennsylvania. Mr. Hicks was a victim of asphyxiation as-phyxiation and was found dead in his bed, about noon on Thursday. Thurs-day. According to Marshal J. H. Thorn who investigated, Mr. Hicks registered at the hotel Wednesday Wed-nesday night about 10:30 p.m. He went to his room and apparently apparent-ly turned on the gas heater without with-out lighting It and then went to bed. He was found dead by Mr. Senior Sen-ior and hotel employees who climbed through a window after they failed to gain any response from behind his locked door. |