Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-03

nav Sn,b cave the remaining four to Miss
Potts. telling her 10 take one each hlBIt On
retiring. On the Goth she took one OF tne
Hapsules. Il made her head ache ana sne
did not take another for several GAYS; one
took what is supposed 70 have been the re,
JnainiDc one Saturday night, and 1t caused
her death. ,u,hooI
about EIGHT months She was placed there
by her mother TO receive afnishing course
preparatory TO entering society. ohe was
very viyacious. q brilliant converse,
f,o1alist. and possessed unusual musIcai
TALENT. She became very popular with the
other fifteen girl boarders there ana her
teachers. Her mother, who resides ~
hsbnry Park. called frequently and TOOK
Miss Helen out shopping, driving or 10
make calls.
THE STUDENT FRIEND.
Miss Potts had another frequent visitor
CARLYLE w. Harris, q yonng student VINO
had made the acquaintance OF tnS nn INIT
out with Mrs. Potts and Miss Helen when
the former visited the city. He hyes at
No. 28 east Seventeenth street with MS
grandfather. DR.. McCready.
He called nj the school on nearly every
reception day. They were intimate Irienus'
Harris says, nothing more.
Among others, Harris paid visit to the
school January 18th. During aconversatlon
Miss Potts complained of insomnia, and IN
a bantering tone inquired if Harris could
not relieve her. He replied:
yves. il You desire il, / can give you q
prescrintlon that will cure your trouble"
She accepted. and the day following the
student appeared with the capsules. In
the afternoon he left for Old Point Com
fort. Va, where he remained two days.
During his absence Miss Potts wrote him
letter, in which she said:
- HEADACHE EVERY MORNING."
"Your medicine has given me head
ache every morning. / am afraid you are
"A poor physician, and if your medicine
does not have q better effect l shall get
another"
Harris arrived home Wednesday. He
saw the girl and advised her to continue
the use Of the pills. She had several re-
mining, and on his advise she took an
other.
Mrs. Potts came down Saturday and her
daughter. with Harris, visited friends IN
BROOKLYN. That was the last time she saw
her daughter alive. They returned to tine
school about o'clock and Mrs. Potts LETT
for home. Harris left before her.
Miss Potts spent some time IN playing o
piano aud about an hour IN conversation
with Miss Reed. teacher.
'She wos in excellent health and spirits
while talking 10 me-" said Miss Reed,
land planned TO make a visit home short
w. She said something about insomnia at
the time, but ] laughingly told her she
would soon recover. Thought nothing OF
q nj the time"
Miss Potts retired early. She evidently
took dose of morphine or medicine con-
tanning morphine, for she fell into heavy
sleep which lasted until half-past 10. At
that hour Misses Victoria Smith, Anna
Lewis, and Catherine Yates. roommates of
the unfortunate girl, came home from a
concert.
BEAUTIFUL DREAM.
Tbeirnoise and chatter awoke Miss Potts.
She was stupid and drowsy.
II have taken another dose OF MIR. Har-
ris's medicine said she, and have had
most delightful dream"
Their apartments consist of two hand
somely furnished rooms on the third toor.
rear. which are connected by folding-doors.
They are decorated with o boarding school
girls taste The teachers and Miss Lydia
Day, the proprietress. occupy apartments
on the floor above.
When the young women ATTEMPTED TO en-
gage Miss Potts in conversation relating TO
the concert she failed to respond and fell
asleep Miss Yates shook her, but Miss
Potts remained in her stupid state. They
then retired leaving her asleep.
Half an hour later the girl began to
breathe so laboriously and with such loud
ness that the other girls became alarmed.
They called Miss Day and several OF the
teachers. who hurried into room and tried
TO rouse the girl She had fallen into e
coma. however, and ell their efforts failed
10 restore the smallest sign OF conscious
ness.
Miss Day hurried ont and called in Drs.
T.. Z. Fowler and Bauer, OF No. So west
Fortieth street. and DIR. Kerr, OF No. AZ
west Fftieth street
THOUGHT SHE HAD RECOVERED.
IN hnt
fast stages of morphine poisoning when
they arrived. The pupils of her eyes had
contracted until they were no larger than
n pin-point, and her respirations were but
one every two minutes
The physicians had been called too late
TO employ n stomach-pump and We're COM
PEELED 20 resort TO other means. FREQUENT
injections of black coffee were given and q
powerful battery was brought into use.
They worked unremittingiy until nearly 3
A. NJ, when Miss Potts appeared to be re-
covering Her pulse became normal and
she opened her ewes. All attempts to make
her speak, however. We're unavaillng.
The doctors concluded that she would
recover and returned 10 their homes,
leaving the girl in Miss Days care.
she continued TO improve said the
latter, until about half an hour after the
physicians had left. Then relapse set
The doctors were hurriedly recalled to
the young woman's bedside at o'clock by
one Of the servants, who said that Miss
Potts was dying. She was right When
DIR. Fowler arrived he found the young
woman lower than when he had been first
summoned. The battery was again en-
ployed and artificial respiration kept up
until II o'clock this morning. Miss Potts
sank steadily, however, and expired at that
hour.
HARRIS oRIxF-sTmcKES.
Harris, who had been summoned. was
nearly frantic with grief. He is only
twenfy-one years Of age and will be gradu-
ated with the class OF 1891. lie Is con-
sidered bright student. and is of ire
proachable character.
Il had no idea that such an accident
could be possible" said he yesterday.
land would rather have lost my own life
than have this happen. There certainly
has been some mistake in the making up
of the prescription. How else IL could
have happened do not know"
Although the practice Is considered lie
gal for student 10 prescribe for person
or 10 practice without license, the doe
tors yesterday acknowledged that young
students frequently furnished friends VITA
medicine. This statement was substaL-
tiatod BY the fact Of the ease With which
Harris had the prescription filed at Nc
Intyre's, despite the fact that be had
signed It " Carlyle w. Harris, student"
AZ the pharmacy was informed that Mr..
Mcintyre had left the city several days ago
and was In the country. The clerk In
charge refused 70 Disclose the name OF the
person who compounded the pills. but he
naturally denied emphAticaily, that any
were kept Ia q locked closet, and when
fhey were called for two clerks were al
hand To witness the weighs procesa.