The record-union., 1893-03-25
The Editor of the "MaiI and
Express" Dies Suddenly.
DEATH FOLLOWED THE ADMINS
TRATION OF ETHER
4 New York Journal Claims to Have
Unearthed Something New and
Startling in the Hawaiian Matter,
Supposed Dispatch From Princess
KaiuIani's Guardian IN Her Father
In HonolrIIfI.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ov.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
NEW YORK, March 4.-Colonel Elliott
Fitch Sheppard, editor of the Mail and
Express, died suddenly this afternoon at
his home at West Fifty-second street.
His death followed the administration OF
ether by DR.. Charles McBurney and his
family physician, DIR. j. w. McLane,
who were about to make an examination
to ascertain whether the ColoneFs sus-
picion that he suffered from stone in the
bladder was correct. Up TO this morning
Colonel Sheppard attended to business in
his usual way. Last evening he merely
told Manager a. b. Defreece shat he
probably would not be down on Friday,
but he would be there Saturday after
noon.
Before the arrival of the doctor he COM
planned of severe pains, and called up
the MdU and Express and gave num-
ber of instructions about the future con-
duct of the newspaper in case anything
should happen to him. Later the distress
which he suffered left him, and when the
physicians and nurses came in he was in
good spirits. He induced his wife and
yOhilSGA ddus lllSAo anu
Alice, who were at home, to go off to
Scarboro for the day. His son Elliott f.
Sheppard was at home.
About o'clock Colonel Sheppard said
he was ready for the surgeons. and they,
with the nurses, began the work of put
ting him under ether. He inhaled the
drug but two or three times, when the
physicians detected dangerous symptoms
and stopped the inhalation. Colonel
Sheppard sank rapidly, and for some time
it was feared he could not be rallied.
Powerful restoratives were administered,
and at the end of an hours work with
oxygen he was restored to partial con-
sciousness, and continued apparently to
rally until o'clock.
Then, without warning, and for no ap-
parent reason, he began rapidly to sink.
The oxygen trt atment was resumed, but
it was of no avail, and at 4:20 o'clock he
died. He was unconscious, and death
was peaceful.
The cause of death was given by the
physicians as Oedema of the lungs.
Immediately before Colonel Shephard's S
death a message was sent to Mrs. Shep-
q,
and might not live. She reached the
house at o'clock. Immediately friends
of the family soon began arriving. A
string of carriages was continually at the
Fifth avenue side of the house all even
ing.
At a late hour no arrangements had
been made for the funeral.
Elliott Fitch Sheppard was born in
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, \. Y,
July ., 1888. He was educated at uni
versity in the city of New York, ad-
mitted to the bar in 1858, and for many
years practiced in New York City. In
IS6l-G2 he was aid-de-camp on the staff OF
Governor Edwin d. Morgan, in COM
mand of the depot volunteers at Elmira.
\. y, and aided in organizing, equiping
and forwarding to the field nearly SC, 600
troops. He was instrumental in raising
the Fiity-frst New York Regiment.
which was named for him the ''Shephard
Rifles" He was the founder of the New
y ork Bar State Association in 1876, which
formed the model for the organization OF
similar associations in other States. In
March, 1888, he purchased the New York
Mail and Express.