Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-12
SHE DIED SUDDENLY.
MISS MAURY GERTRUDE LIPsCOMB
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY.
An INQUEST TO Be HELD.
The Lady Had Just Swallowed a
Dose of Medicine When She Fell
Have Been n Natural One.

Miss Maury Gertrude Lipscomb died
very suddenly at her home, No. 500 Floyd
avenue, Sunday. under peculiarly sad cir
cumstances.
Miss Lipscomb was a devout member OF
Calvary Baptist church, and had just re-
turned from the morning service. when
she complained of peculiar feeling in
great sufferer from headache. and had
secured from friend a prescription
which had benefited the friend, and which
she thought might prove of benefit to
her.
She took a dose of the medicine. and
almost Immediately fell to the floor in an
unconscious state and died. DIR. Boyce
ID. BROKER was hastily summoned, but
ere he arrived life was extinct, and Coro-
ner Taylor was sent for. He was or ina
opinion that death had resulted from an
apoplectic stroke, but took the bottle Oh
medicine TO analyze 1t.
MEDICINE IS HARMLESS.
The medicine is not such as would pro-
duce death, certainly not under the cir
cumstances attendant upon Miss Lips
COIlU emu ITO '-e' -
pounded at the Polk Miller Drug Com
pany's store last Saturday from a pre-
scription written more than ten years
ago. 1t consisted of "a grains Of anti
febrin, 50 grains OF antipyrine, ounce or
French brandy. 100 grains Of bromide or
soda, and ounces Of water. The dose
was ono teaspoonful, and in dose the
patient took but three-fourths of a grain
OF antifebrln and two and half grains
of antipyrine, where five grains OF each
Is the usual minimum dose.
These two drugs are heart depressants,
but had Miss Lipscomb been suffering
with heart-failure the drugs would not
IT is thought, have affected her. as the
brandy tends to have q counter-effect on
the heart.
MANY HAD TAKEN 1T.
The prescription had been compounded
frequently by the Polk Miller Company,
and had proved beneficial in many cases.
Coroner Taylor when asked for an oplh-
ion Of the case, said he did not thlnk the
medicine had anything to do with MISS
I.ipscomb's death, but he rather inclined
70 the belief that dissolution following so
closely after swallowing the dose was
merely coincidence.
The Coroner will, however hold an In
quest to determine the nature OF the
Young ladys DEATH and will summon his
Jury to-day. Miss Lipscomb's funeral
will take place from Calvary Baptist
church this afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
II. A. Bagby will officiate. and the inter-
ment will be in Hollywood.
The following will be the pall-bearers:
Honorary-Messrs. A. ]. Chewing, r.
J. Duke, Philip Gibson, and Il. Leslie
Spence.
Active-Aiessrs. r. NJ. Pitcher. Henry
Carr, George Y. Hundley, p. @. Gary, W.
Percy Glenn. Benjamin +. Nelsoh' Il.
Neale. and Wiley Johnson.
Deceased was 35 years OF age She was
a daughter Of the late william r. Lips
comb. Of King William. and is survived
by her mother, Mrs. Maria Lipscorno;
brother, Mr.. w. L. Lpscomb. OF Sweet
Hall. and a sister, Mrs. Blanche Pilcher,
Of King William.
Other Denths and Funerals.
Mrs Catharine O'Hara, wife Of Mr..
Patrick O'Hara. and mother OF Rev. Viii
liam OHara, died early Sunday morning
after q short illness of pneumonia. Sne
leaves a husband, three sons, and four
daughters. Deceased was born in County
Kerry, Ireland, April l, 1913. She came
to this country in 1861. After her mar
riage. In New York. she settled in Rich
mond. In 1867. The funeral will take place
from St. Peters Cathedral this morning
at 10 o'clock.
Services over the remains of Mrs.
Charles Straus were held in the Mortuary
Chapel Of the Hebrew Cemetery Sunday
at 800 o'clock. In the absence OF Rev.
Z. n. Calisch from the city, services
were conducted by Mr.. Charles Hutzler.
assisted by Rev. r. Benjamin, of New
York.