The evening world., 1892-02-13
The Ex-Senator's Son Said TO Have
Died Of the Kelley Cure.
He Had Taken the Bichloride Of
Gold Treatment.
Heart Trouble Resulted and tho End
Came Suddenly.

Senator Fair, OF California. He was pros
trated suddenly yesterday at his apartments
In the Lick House In San Francisco.
Both Jimmy Fair and his younger brother
Charles L. Fair were among the first patients
10 try the the Keeley cure after II had become
known.
About ten months ago the following de.
spatch was sent out all over the country as n
boom for the keeley cure and was widely
published:
SAN Francisco. April l3. 1891. "A remarkable
sure has been effected Ia the case Of James g. Fair
r.. by tie Kelley bi-chloride OF gold treatment He
has perfectly recovered from the bsbt to which he
Was addicted aud has returned TO his home.
Another despatch, which was received this
may be contrasted with the fore
going, 1t reads as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. lathe death Of young
Fair is attrib dtcd by HIS doctors directly to tho b
chloride of gold treatmont. Tho circumstances all
point to this conclusion the doctors say.
Although young Fair declared that he had
been cured 1t was noticed by his friends tina,
after he had undergone the treatment he
showed extreme listlessness and lack OF
spirit.
He was stricken down suddenly In his room
after he had been spending the evening read.
ing. lie ,ell TO the floor with sharp cry OF
pain, became Immediately unconscious, and
although physi clans were summoned at once
he died within few minutes.
The doctors say that strychnine, which is
believed to enter largely into the so.called
bi-chluride OF gold solution, directly affected
the heart OF the patient, and produced the
disease which hastened his death.
1t is reported In San Francisco that several
other similar cases have occurred there
among ex-Keeley patients, and the death Of
young Fair has shaken confidence In tho Ell.
cacy OF the bi-chloride OF gold treatment
The apparently successful results which
nrst attended the case OF young- Yufr led
many other people on the Paciflc coast to try
the cure, and number OF these hive LcguL
10 show symptoms OF dangerous affections o,
the h art.
senator Fair is the only one OF the family
now in san Francisco. His other son, Charles,
is In Europe, and his two daughters are In
New York. ono Of the latter is the vie OF
herman oelrichs, whose gorgeous wedding at
the palace Of the Bonanza King last June was
the sensation OF the day. 1t eclipsed In splen-
dor anything ever known on the Pacific coast
or anything In the whole country for that
matter.
senator Fair himself is the wealthiest man
In San Francisco. his real estate In Califor-
MIA alone Is valued at 100000 600, and he
has besides large interests In silver mines In
Nevada and elsewhere.
Young Jimmie Fair and his other each
received $500, ZOO by the will OF their mother.
but they were only allowed the interest Oh
this sum. They were to get the principal
when they arrived at the age OF thirty-IOur.
Jimmie Fair was Just thirty years old when
he died.
He was very popular, It is said, with IN
" boys around town, and began drinking al
an early age. BY the time he had reached his
majority he had become hope.ess victim oI
the habit. He tried several methods to cure
himself before he went to the Keeley lnsti-
tute. one OF these was to have his "palate
n process which is supposed to
make the taste OF whiskey disagreeable to
the patient.
PREVIOUS VICTIMS OF THE CURE.
A little more than q week ago Walter B.
Earle died at Yonkers violently insane. He
had been an inmate OF the Kelley Institute
at White Plains during January and had been
uiscnarseu ~ eu'eu' a e" uu's u''er he ie''
the institute lie began 70 sho" symptoms oi
INSANITY anu 'a'eu ''n''"u"h' aoou' 'no
h eley cure.
he hao ''o'eh' sp"s"is' anu hn"ii' was
necessary to place him under restraint. He
was sent 10 the roushheepsic insahe Asylum
"here nc a'eu'
~ Is saiu that many o' the patients ~ the
lhs'ilu'e' aher receiving ie" inJeetiohs oi
the oi-chloride' become 10 aoseh'-inihueu ahd
iisliess that they scarcely hotiee anything
That goes On ABOUT them.
Ihe hrst SHOCK .hat was given 10 pubic
iaith In the heeiey cure was the death VI
"fehN olupoy' the "r'er' VINO toiu ia
magazine art Gle after MS discharge from the
institute now compietey no haa Deeh cured.
In less thah month aI'er the hotice had
been published he had uieu In tue dehrlum
tremens WHrd OF New YORK hospital
IL Is wen estabiished TACT IN medica'