New-York tribune., 1902-12-12
SLEUTHS WATCH BODY.
AUTOPSY ON MRS. WATERS
Organs RemoUed by CorOner-QMck
Embalming Considered Suspicious.
VIEW OF LA GUAYRA,
Showing the breakwater.

| Because he had heard that the body of Mrs
| Sarah n. Waters, the aged widow. OF No. 4ol
! West Twenty -frst-st., had been ordered en-
hafn7ed as soon as she had died, Coroner Scholer
! yesterday conducted autopsy. and gave in
| structions that chemical analysis be made TO
ascertain whether the foreign substances found
| in the dead wOmans stomach were poison vi
| merely embalming fluid.
Mrs Waters the dying woman for whose
5000 600 estate her granddaughters, Sarah May
lie Brantz and Dorsea LIE BrantZ, who lived
with her have been cOntesting with William u
Conklin treasurer of the Franklin Savings
Bank Mr. Conklin and DR.. James A Campbell
of No 800 West Twenty -second-st,, who directed
Mrs Waterss body to be embalmed, had, 1t IS
said power of attorney for Mrs Waters, ana IL
, was alleged that she had made two wills giving
her property to Mr.. Conlllin and another VIII OF
which DR. Campbell said to be the executor
Mrs Waters died at = o'clock yesterday morn
ing AS soon as the news of her death was re-
ported at the coroner's office. Coroners Physi-
clan Schultz vas sent to make an investigation.
as Assistant District Attorney Garvan had sald
that the aged womans death looked suspicious
Coroner Scholer said that he understood that DR.
Campbell had found Mrs. Waters dead in her
bed had issued death certificate attributing
her death to general debility. and had then d-
rected E. H. Crane, an undertaken. of No, 3d3
w est NltleleeHlil-St " till''iiiii NilC ''NJ 90
quickly as possible. This last he said, looked
suspicious.
Coroner Scholer performed the autopsy early
last evening finding he reported. that Mrs.
Waters died from bronchial pneumonia. In the
stomach there We're. he said. foreign elements
that might have come from the embalming fluid,
but which would require chemical analysis.
When asked if his investigation had confirmed
his early suspicious, he said that he was not
prepared to answer. He continued:
so far as 1 know now, there will he order
for me to arrest any one tonight. Mrs. Waters
was ninety years old anyway, and it would
not take much to end her life. However, it is
necessary to take all proper steps and precau-
tions in the matter. and the analysis will settle
it altogether
Mrs. Waters is said to have lived in her house
in Twenty-irst-st. for forty years She had
married three times but was childless. The
Misses lie Brantz are daughters of adopted
daughter Mrs. Albert Mullens of West
Virginia. Mr. Conkn had been Mrs. Waters's
man OF business for about forty years. She
had decided to him the house where she lived
valued at 100000 hut about four weeks ago.
according to Coroner Scholer, ne had tried. with
three four other men, to get her to assign
certain properties him. which she had re-
fused Then, it is said, she to dislike him.
and gave power of attorney to DR.. Campbell
The Misses LIE BrantZ through Colonel Alex
ander S. Bacon, of No. 81 Liberty-st.. brought
suit against MIR. Conklin, asking that the trans
fer of her house be aside, the ground that
Mr.. Conxlin had obtained undue influence over
Mrs. Waters's feeble mind. An injunction was
obtained restraining Mr.. Conklin from dsposing
of any of the property. and on last Wednesday
commission in lunacy was appointed by Justice
Leventritt in the Supreme Court to test Mrs.
Waterss sanity
In the Supreme Court yesterday notice of Mrs.
Waterss death put end to the litigation
over her estate. Dr. Campbell, when seen last
night, made the following statement:
was at the home of Mrs Waters the night
before she died, and told them not to send for
me again. l knew she would not live. But
was called yesterday morning and, arriving at
$50 o'clock found her already dead l gave
Mrs. Waters drugs except cascara and rhu-