Arizona republican., 1894-10-05
COST HER LIFE. The Price a Woman Paid
 to Be Beautiful. She Dies While Under going an Operation.
The Surgeon Was Removing
 Flemish From Her Face,
Cocoaine Used to Deaden the Pain Results in Horrible Tragedy
 Almost Instant Death.
By the Associated Pr ess.

by the ASSOCl1geQ TT 3sS.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 4-Belle White, 23 years of age, daughter of Benjamin s. White, wealthy umberman, died at Woods hotel this morning about 7 o'clock, while under treatment for the removal of facial blemishes. Death was caused, it is said, by the use of cocaine to deaden the pain from the applica- tion of an electrical current which con- stituted the means of treatment. The operator was Dr. Sophie Santa of the Dr. Sophie Santa company. Eliza A. James, the business partner of Dr. Santa, was assisting.
 In one hand Dr. Santa held the electric needle and in the other a sponge soaked with a 4 percent solution of cocaine, which she applied at intervals to deaden the intense pain caused by the needles. She had almost complet- ed the treatment when Miss White gasped for breath, and before the oper- ator could assist her she slid from the chair to the floor. dead. Aid was hasti- ly summoned and restoratives applied, without avail, the young woman having died almost instantly.
 Dr. Tallman, the only physician call ed, arrived too late to be of any assis- tance and as the people in the room where the dead girl lay acted in rather strange manner, he informed the police and Dr. Santa and her assistants were locked up until the exact cause of the young woman's death is known. There is no thought, however that the death was the result of anything but an &C., cident. Dr. Tallman describes his visit as follows:
 "When I reached the room, I heard through the closed door a woman's voice repeating: Is she dead?' I knocked several times. At last an el- derly woman opened the door. When she saw me she banged the door shut again. felt sure that something was wrong and forced my way in. I told the woman Twas physician and brush ing her aside, found two men making vigorous efforts to revive woman. As soon as looked upon the woman saw that she was dead.
 ''I said: You cannot do anything; that woman is dead.' The elderly woman who opened the door began lamenting and cried out: T only used per cent solution; that would not have killed her. 1 asked per cent of what? She said cocaine. She said the young lady was sitting in chair while she was removing the outer cuti- cle from her face. To deaden the pain she kept brushing the face with solu- tion of cocaine.
 "Seeing that no devices would be successful I left the room. I think the women intended to hush up the affair if they could. I telephoned and ad- vised the arrest of all the parties in the room as the only way of finding out the true story.
 "An amusing incident occurred when I left the room that has it's serious as- pect in showing to what extremes woman IS willing to go in order to beautify her face. Outside in the cor ridor was an old woman we'll dressed. She stopped me and asked if there would be any danger to her in taking the treatment. She said she wanted to get rid of her wrinkles and was ready to try the treatment. told her of the fate of the young woman and she re- piled that she knew the girl had died in the chair, bnt she believed she was strong enough to bear the pain with out finching.'
 The father of Miss White is a busi- ness partner of Don J. Louthers, the well known capitalist of Grand Rapids, Mich.