The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-19
DR.. RAB'S INSURANCE.
No Trouble Known to the
Family About the
Matter.
COMPANIES READY TOPAY
As Soon as the Legal Proofs of Death
are Observation-Disclosures by
Drs. Lutklns and Taylor.

MT. HICKS. the ratner-ln-laW OF the iate
DIR. Walter Rae, denies that the Doctors
family are having any trouble in collect
lug the 100000 insurance money which
the Doctor carried upon his life. To re-
porter of The JERSEY CITY NEWS MIR.
Hicks said last EVENING"
Every company in which the Doctor
was insured has expressed a willingness
to pay over the money due as soon as the
proofs are sent. DIR. Taylor of Hoboken,
who attended the Doctor when he died,
has signed the proofs to the effect that
the Doctor died suddenly of heart failure,
and the kev. DR.. Van Cleef, as the Doc
tors pastor and friend, and also the
undertaken who buried the Doctor, have
signed the proofs"
Mr.. Hicks had heard nothing of the
rumor that any company contended that
the Doctor did not die from natural
causes. He could not recall the names
OF all the companies in which the Dpct or s
life had been insured. His son. Horace
l.. Hicks of Troy, who with Harry w.
Taft OF New York, were named as ad-
ministrators, had the list. Mr.. Hicks.
Sr., could only recall for a certainty the
names of the New York Life for $4,000;
the Brooklyn aud the Provident. There
are some eight or ten of them.
DR.. Lutkins, Sr., who was Dr. Rae's
personal friend and who attended him
for the grip year ago, thinks the Doc
tors death was due to apoplexy brought
on by mental excitement aud worry
1t is known TO many of the Doctors
friends that for awhile before his sudden
death he was financially EN- barrassed.
This was brought about by the erection
OF the seven-story hats on Jersey avenue,
opposite the Palnlal Club building. 1t is
said the Doctor was mistaken as to the
cost of the builling. The building cost
him over $42 900. Before it could be COM
pleted he found it necessary to borrow an
additional $4,000. There is a mortgage of
$18, 900 on tine building held by George r.
Mckenzie. After the flats were COM
pleted the Doctor found it difficult to Sc
cure tenants. Yet he was obliged to pay
an engineer, and keep up the expenses of
running the flat just the same as If every
apartment was occupied.
THE INSURANCE PREMIUMS.
The Doctor too was q Dard-worked
physician. His practice was one of the
largest held by any physician in the city.
To keep up his payments on 100000 in
surance was heavy drain upon his bank
account. That he should have allowed a
S10,0 900 policy to elapse demonstrates the
upright character of the man. Many of
his friends would only have been too
glad 10 assist the Doctor in. saving this
amount. But DR.. Rae WAS of That class
OF men who s. orned the idea of borrow
ing without putting up security.
DR.. Taylor. who signed the proofs of
the Doctors death, attributes the death
to cardiac syncope. II was in a room in
the rear OF DIR. Taylor's apothecarv in
First street, Hoboken, that DR.. Rae was
stricken. Dr.. Taylor said last night thut
he saw no reason for suspecJing Dir. Rae
of having taken his own life. The symp-
toms upon which he based his opinion Of
death from cardiac syncope gave no sug-
gestion whatever of death from narcotic
poison. He had not seen DR., Rae for a
year, and was unfamiliar with the Doc
tors habits. They used to visit each other
frequently before DR.. Rae's practice
grew SO large. Dr. Rae came over to see
him on the fatal day, ard remained In the
store for nearly three hours. The Doctor
was suffering with neuralgia, and had mis-
teeth examined. He also complained of
pain IN the side of his body. He did not
betray great eviueuce of worriment.
THE MANNER OF THE DEATH.
II was away on business about an
hour" said DR.. Taylor. ''aud when / re-
turned Dr. Rae was still sitting in a
natural position in the chair In which
had left him. rave him familiar cout
on the shoulder a. entered the door be-
hind him. and was surprised that he did
not respond. l thought at first he was
asleep, and tried to arouse him. Then
discovered alarming symptoms Of the an
proach of death. But there was no evil
dence of poisoning The pulse had sud
denly run down, shortly afterward there
was a perfect failure of the heart. and
coma had set in. There was no convnl-
sion or vomiting. At that stage, had he
been In stuper under narcotic influence.
he would have been at least partially
aroused by being dragged from the chair
to be lain on the fl 'or. The
symptoms of apopiexy, which means
practically extravasation of bloud in the
brain, are pretty much the same as those
of cardiac syncope. / can imagine no
drug whose influences in the stomach are
accumulative or in other words, when
taken will suddenly act several days after.
unless it is di9itaiis or diRitaline the use
OF which has been almost discarded by
the profession on this account. 1t used to
be often prescribed to regulate a weak
heart. But there were no evidence of the
use OF this drug having been used. The
pupils were dilated, but he had no cold
sweat. DR.. Adams aud DR.. Mulvaney
were both present about or just after
death ensued."