Nairobi South cemetery - in loving memory of Jesse Carfri Claase who died at Nairobi 17 April 1913 aged 34 years, "he is not dead, but sleeping, not lost but gone before, he awaits the glad re-union upon the further shore".

Gazette 15/5/1913 - Probate and Administration in respect of Jesse Carfri Claase, late of Nairobi, who died at Nairobi on 17/4/1913, aged 34. Applied for by Leah Magdalene Claase of Nairobi

North has Leon Classe, South Nyanza missions, arrived 1900, died 31.1.45

South African

Marriage cert. has Jessie Carfin Claase

East African Standard 19 Apr 1913 He had recently arrived from South Africa. He had been principally engaged in recruiting labour in Fort Hall and his visits to Nairobi were few and far between. Arriving in Nairobi a few days before his end, the deceased engaged a room in the Balcony Tea Rooms of which his wife was the manager. On the night in question there was nothing in his manner to suggest any inkling relevant to the tragic action. Dining at the neighbouring hotel he appeared in perfect spirits and there is no evidence to his having drunk heavily. In company with his wife and a few friends he made his way to his lodging, and unaccompanied he went to his room at a few minutes to 9, where a cup of tea and a finished pipe suggested his having partaken of them. Following this it is presumed that he took up his rifle and shortly after a shot rang out. The blackened nature of the wound proves the close proximity of the muzzle when the shot was fired. The punch was keen and incisive, which further proved that the soft nosed bullet had not time to expand. The bullet, passing out under the left shoulder blade flew through the open door, piercing the two sides of an adjoining corrugated roof. On the shot being fired a European who was at that moment having tea in the tea room rushed along the balcony and found the deceased bleeding profusely and lying on the floor. Assistance was immediately summoned. On the arrival of Dr Kelbe who was the first medical man on the scene, brandy was administered, but the doctor pronounced the case hopeless. Dr Lumb arrived shortly after, having been summoned from the Gaiety theatre. The deceased was known to be suffering from miner's pthisis and was somewhat morose and sullen in his manner. The opinion is current that business and domestic worries were the initial causes of the sad occurence. After life had been pronounced extinct the body was removed in the police ambulance to the mortuary.