The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
A Wealthy Girl Who Was Max
ing a Tour of the World
Alone.
HER LOVER WENT INSANE.
Max BrandenStein Asks Friends in
LONDON by Cable What TO Do
With the Remains.

Miss Mayne Worrall of Chester Lodge,
Gilston road, South Kensington, London,
England, highly connected and accom-
phshed girl, about % years old, died sud-
denly in her room at the Palace Hotel
about o'clock Yesterday afternoon.
She was travelling around the world alone
The cause of her death appears to be
heart disease, but it is quite possible that
all autopsy, which will be held to-day
may reveal other causes of death.
Miss Worrall arrived in this City last
Thursday from Australia on the steamship
Alameda She was met at the dock by
Max J. Brandenstein of NJ. J. Brandon
stein & Co., tea importers of this City.
Brandenstein 81 Co. had received letter
from Ramsay & Co., their London CORE
spondents, asking them to meet Miss
Worrall and see that she was provided
with suitable hotel and to render her any
other assistance that she might need.
Mr.. Brandenstein found Miss Worrall in
company with congenial friends and she
expressed preference to remain in their
company and went to the Palace. Among
these friends were several San Francisco
residents known to him. One of these
member of an old San Francisco family.
The young lady appeared to be in good
spirits when she landed, and has been en-
loving herself since her arrival in the City
with the friends and acquaintance she
made aboard ship. Last Friday she was
out at the Cliff House with party, and in
the evening she was escorted to the Bald
win Theater by Mr.. Herman. lie left her
at the Palace about Ii o'clock.
Yesterday morning about IL o'clock Mr..
Herman called at the room of Miss
Worrall, but received no response to his
rap on the door. He called again about l
O'Clock. She called to him to come in.
He found her in bed. She said she was
feeling quite i'll. He advised her to let
him cali physician, and he went over to
the office of DR.. L. E. Whitney, near by,
and summoned him.
Mr.. Herman returned to the room of the
young lady. He found her lying on the
floor en- dishabille and semi-conscious. A
window of her room had been opened, sug-
costing the idea that during his absence
she had been seized with a fainting spell,
had rushed to the window for air and had
allen over on the floor. He replaced her
on the bed, and by that time DR.. Whitney
arrived.
The physician was seen last night at his
rooms in the Palace. He said: 4 found
the young lady gasping for breath. She
udu very llLIle anu ueE 1dC0 anu I0eL
were blue. She went into q spasm and
had several of them.
''They appeared to be epileptic. Finally
she had no pulse at all, and I gave her a
hypodermic injection. Her pulse was
still SO low that l could not hear her heart
beat. She gasped for breath. [ sent for
Brigham. and she died shortly after he ar
rived. She apparently died from heart
failure"
eff she died by poison what poison do
the symptoms indicator" the doctor was
asked.
II would say strychnine. The autopsy
will determine that. 1 understand the
Coroner will hold one."
The remains of the young lady were
taken in charge by the Coroner. They are
at Porter Brothers establishment.
Attorney Fl. Brandenstein has been ap-
pointed to take charge of her effects. Her
baggage consists of several trunks, and
the valuables found in her room COM
prised about $3.50 and about $1,000 worth of
jewelry.
Max Brendenstein cabled Ramsey & Co.
yesterday afternoon the facts of her death
and asked for instructions.
DR.. Whitney says that Mr.. Herman sa id
to him that Miss Worrall told him aboard
ship that her lover in England had gone
insane.
She expected to take train for New
York and Chicago to-day on her return to
England.