Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-03

Vincent Hospital passed away.
Hospital surgeons say that an over
dose of laudanum killed Mrs. Carrie
Phillips. Her friends and her husband
from whom she was separated, say that
while the drug doubtless ended her
struggle, yet deaths real victory was
over broken heart and a crushed
spirit.
Thus ends another chapter in Sc
ries of which the first was given TO the
public seven years ago. Thus died the
daughter of proud Old Maryland
family.
Mrs. Phillips, beautiful woman of
twcntysiX, was chatting with her
father Colonel Alexander phyfe, sun
day evening, at about four O'Clock, in
her apartment in No. 10 Seventh ave-
nue., New York, where Mrs. Decker
manages fashionable boarding house.
For nearly year she had lived there,
separated from her husband W. j..
Phillips, a produce merchant, of 263
Washington street. They had not quar-
relied, but for three years she had re-
manned away, q sufferer. ii is said, from
dipsomania.
She broke one Of her legs year ago
and then kidney disease made itself ar-
parent. In order to Kill the pain she
gradually became accustomed to the
use of opiates. While talking 10 her
father she suddenly became drowsy, he
said, and fell forward in her chair.
Colonel Phyfc lifted his daughter 10 a
sofa and found that he could not walen
her. Alarmed he ran down stairs anG
found the hostess, Mrs. Decker, il a re-
cep;ion room and exclaimed =
''Mrs. Phillips seems very i'll What
can do?''
"Go across the street 10 DR.. Tllson !;
he's been attending her said Mrs.
Decker.
The Colonel, bareheaded, ran across
Seventh avenue, TO No, 4G, where Dr.
George w. Talson lives Fortunately
the doctor was in and hurried back with
the father. They found Mrs. Phillips
in a comatose condition, breathing stcr-
toriously and exhibiting all the symp-
toms of opium poisoning.
81 have no facilities here, said d..
Talson. You'd better rush around u
st. Vincent's Hospital and get an am
bulance.n
Away ran Colonel Phyfe, and ten
minutes from the time he turned in .
hurry call the patient was at the insti-
tuition.
She was taken into a special
ward, and a stomach pump was put
in use. Then hypodermic injections of
atropine and inhalations OF oxygen,
aud electricity was tried. From that
time until three o'clock New Years
morning a hospital surgeon worked
over the unfortunate; then her heart
ceased beating.
The Coroner's Office was notified
and later in the day Deputy WCs:on
granted death certificate. In the
meantime Colonel Phyfe called and
learned the sad news. shortly there
after he sent an undertaken to the hos
pital and the body was taken away.
Meanwhile Mrs. Phillips's husband
knew nothing of this tragedy. Not
withstanding that Monday was the
opening of a new year he and bis faith
cr went early to their commission
house in Washington street. They
had been there but short time when
Colonel Phyfe appeared.
Surprised, shocked, almost crushed.
Mr.. Phillips and his father listened to
the news, then they took steps toward
the burial. The funeral Will be pri-
vate, and Mr.. Phillips had not decided
upon the time or place when called
late Monday evening at his residence
No. 233 west 18th street.
Colonel Phyfe came of an old Mary
land family and came to New York
where he made money in real estate
lie married in 1865 and then had an in
come Of from $50, 900 to $4,000 a year
One of the wedding presents he gave
10 his wife was the house No. 226 west
10th street. In 1867 his daughter Car
rie was born, and for some time iinan
cial prosperity reigned Then the turn
came in the tide, and as Carrie grew
tall the family fortunes grew smaller.
When the daughter was sixteen year:
of age she was considered the mos
beautiful girl i'll the ninth ward, as ole
residents there say. Up to the present
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Judge Bookstaver listened on De
cember S, 1856, to suit brought by
Mrs. Phyfe against the Colonel charg
ing him with abandonment. 1t wa;
decided against her on January l9
1887. when was made known the fac
that the Colonel had brought agains
her a counter suit for absolute divorce
1t was about this time that Carrie mar
w. ]. Phillips. who had come to thi:
city from Virginia, bringing considera
BILE money and all the pride and ac
compliShments belonging TO one who
was really an "F. F. ".
The latter invested MS capital il
business and made fortune. His &C
complishments showed to such an al
vantage that he obtained the heart anC
hand of the greatest beauty in tn,
ward, but in October, 1890, they separ
ated. Mr.. Phillips has sent his wife
regular allowance and has never le
her suffer for the comforts Of life. II
called to see her frequently at No. j.
seventh avenue, Mrs. Decker says, al,
was there three months ago, Just be or
he went West on business. Her iathe
and mother also called often.
Colonel Phyfe is boarding IN MI
teenth street. near Sixth avenue, an