The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
She Was Saved From a Similar Fate
Only by Heroic Treatment.
BROWN WAS FROM BALTIMORE,
Where He Is Said to Be Prominently
Connected-The Woman Was For
merN n1 iss lucy Paxton.
Daughter OF II Danville Jew
eIer-She Came TO Nor
folk to Marry Suicide
Special Dispatch TO The Tlmes.l


NORFOLK, VA, July 2-A tragic
death. surrounded by strange ctrcum-
stances occurred at the Monticello Hotel
last night. The dead man is George Al
lison Brown, OF Baltimore, a man about
Is years of age. ard well connected in the
Monumental city.
Brown registered at the Monticello
Friday evening and was assigned room
on the sixth floor of the hotel. Saturday
morning a woman giving her name as
Mrs. Gray" and who figures very con-
spiciously in the case, arrived in the city
from Baltimore. and with a nurse who ac-
companied her registered at the Monticello
Hotel as from Virginia She was as
signed a room or the third floor Of the
hotel
Saturday afternoon DR., Stanley H.
Graves was called to the hotel to intend
Mrs. Gray" whom he found to be in a
critical condition, suffering from some
violent poison. which subsequently proved
to be morphine and cocaine. Erown, who
was found in her room. appeared very
nervous and excited. ana was aux Gus to
know If the patient would de He sad
that the woman had poisoned herself
After heroic measures the patient began
to revive, and about f 2, " appeared to
be on the road 10 recovery
Upon DR.. Graves leaving the woman to
go to q telephone Brown. who said he was
friend of hers and was soon to marry
her, was allowed in the room with her
alone, and upon the doctors return the
patents condition was found TO be moEs
desperate than ever. and evidently had
fresh poison in her system. tIe char*SsaIt
Brown with having administered this.
Brown admitted that he had given htr
hypolerrnic injection OF cocaine and NOR
phina saving that he and she were both
cocaine fends and had met at a Baltimore
sanitarium-
DR.. Graves and the nurse worked upon
the woman until 2 VI. when she began
to respond to the treatment and by II
o'clock Saturday night she was out OF
danger.
FOUND DEAD IN HTS BED,
Yesterday on the adv 90 OF Sylvanus
Stokes proprietor OF the Monticello. the
woman left the city for Baltimore. Al
O'Clock last night Brown was found dead
in his bed at the hotel, as the result OF
morphine and cocaine poisoning. His body
was viewed by Coroner Newton and was
subsequently moved 10 an undertaking es-
Enlistment
Coroner Newton and a jury OF Inquest
to-day inquired into the circumstances OF
Browns death ana reached a verdict that
ne. came to his death from morphine and
cocaine poisoning. administered by his own
hand.
Brown. the suicide. is said to have been
a brother OF the late DR.. z. r. Brown, OF
Baltimore The body was forwarded &c
Baltimore this evening.
nripfnatlV
Miss Lucy Paxton the daughte~ OF
Danville tewefer. She is sister Of Rev.
John w. Paxton. a Presbyterian mission
ary now in China. She married DR.. George
Lennon of Lynchburs. about 1883, After
DR. Lemmon's death she married Hardin
Massfe a prominent DanvilIe attorney.
Mrs Massie came to Norfolk with the
intention of marrying Brown.
When Mr.. Stokes told her that Brown
was a victim of the morphine habit, she
took his advice, refused TO marry the man
and left for Baltimore.