The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-13
SHE'S MRS. JULIAN POTTER.
one or Northumberland
WOMEN TELLS HER NAME.
sister Of Annie Pixiey. She Ii. and Her
Husbands the Blshop's Nephew--But
who's "Mrs. Blanche King" the Girl
From the same House. That Died:

From the same House, Tnat ueu
: Mrs. Alice Potter. wife Of Julian Potter
nephew of the Bishop Of New York ant
member OF the Lambs, ,Knickerbockel
and other clubs, is one Of the two womel
taken under assumed names last weel
from ". Fl. Ridderbushs boarding hous
at e3 West Thirty-sixth street suffering
from morphine poisoning. Mrs. Potter
is recovering at Bellevue Hospital. Th'
her woman. whose identity is concealed
under the assumed name Of Blanche King
ia dead and in coffin In the undertaking
establishment OF j. H Wintorbottom o.
go Sixth avenue.
Mrs. Potter Is one OF the four daughters
of Mrs A. f. Pixley OF PCS West Forty
third street, one of whom was the actress
Annie Pixley, who died about ten years
ago. Mrs. Potter herself has been on the
stage, but not since her marriage. 1t ~as
sad at her home. Her mother said yes.
terclay that she once played in Iriioy
at the Garden Theatre.
She met her husband about nine years
ago while he was running theatrical eH-
change, among other theatrical enterprises
he had on hand. He was we'll known IN
New York theatrical circles. but gave up
that business about half dozen years
ago.
Since then he has lived with his wife
at Syosset, L. l., in the summer time ana
in the winter they have lived in Bermuda
He himself has visited his relatives IRE
auently in the summer season at newport
He is not engaged in business.
MY daughter" said Mrs. Pi1ley. was
married to Julian Potter eight years ago
at 20 West Sixty-frst street by the rev.
Dr. Houghton Of the Little Church Around
the Corner. She was then on sick bed.
They have house at Syosset and come
here regularly in the fall. When it gets
cold they 60 to Bermuda:
Alice took a room on West Thirty-sixth
street in order to be near the Lambs Club.
where Mr.. Potter often stayed. 1t is OPP
posite to the Lambs Club.
II was notified last night that my daughter
was at Bellevue Hospital under the name OF
Ferguson and was asked not to make
sensation about it. 1t has been SAID that
she lived under that name at kidderbusch 8.
It Ia not so. She was known under her
husbands name.
"Mr, Potter. I understand, was in New
poru I'D to Friday and came back here then.
Nv daughter recently lost child by pre-
mature birth and has been aillng since.
At Ridderbusch' 8, which il boarding
bouse of the better class, where number
of theat rical people live, it was said that Mr..
Potter was not known there personally,
and they had supposed he was travelling
salesman.
came to the house was not acquainted
with the other woman who took morphine
hut had got to know her through seeing
her in the house. The other woman. MIR:
and Mrs. Ridderbusch said. was very well
connected, and they would do all they could
to keep her identity from becoming known,
on account of her family.
Mr. Ridderbusch said that the woman
was morphine user and dlpsomanlac
anI that she went to the MetroF olitan
Hospital Of her own accord, reallzlng that
her condition was serious.
She was driven to the Charities pier at
Twenty sixth street and the East River
on Wednesday In carriage, ana a man
who was with her went to Mr.. Ellison. Com,
missioner FoIkss private secretary, and
asked il her removal to the METROPOLITAN
Hospital could not be kept quiet and her
name not given Mr. Ellison said she
would have to have name;
Call her Blanche King. then, said the
man, Under that name she was received
at the Metropolitan Hospital. She was
tau woman with traces Of great beauty
and was SO years Old. =,
she died on Friday morning, and a death
certificate was signed by Coroners Ply
sician Weston, who gave the cause of death
as acute morphinism and alcoholism. A
death notice was sent to Ridderbusch's
house and he appeared with 1t at the Morgue,
where he signed his name in the space re-
81 sol jIn
The death certificate was given TO him, and
\ removal permit was obtained from the
Board of Health.
The BODY was removed at about III
o'clock on Friday night to Winterbottom' s
undertaking rooms, and orders we're LETT
that no one should be allowed to see it.
There was no record OF the analr al the
any information of the removal Of the
woman from 80 West Thirty-sixth. street.
They didn't know about it. and when Capt.
O'Connor Of the West Thirtieth street station
was notified by a reporter concerning 1t,
he said he didn't care.
At the boarding house yesterday Mrs.
Ridderbusch declared untrue report in
an afternoon paper that the woman's real
name was Tyson and that she came from
Baltimore
she's no relation of that family said
Mrs. Ridderbusch. Il know her people,
Two women called at bellevue hosplt al
on Friday night and asked II the body of
blanche Russell" was there. They were
told that it was not, but that the patient
might have given an assumed name upon
her arrival.
TRY Blanche King, then, said one Of the
women. ~
The news Of her death reached the Rid
derbushes about noon on Friday, and along
about or 4 o'clock Mrs. Potter rushed
out of her room and called to one OF the
hoarders that she had taken morphine.
Mrs. Ridderbush was summoned, and
the members of the household walked Mrs
Potter No and down and gave her strong
coffee while an ambulance was being called
Mrs Potter told the ambulance surgeon
that her name was Mrs. Harry Ferguson
and that she bad taken morphine acct
dentally. When the ambulance took her
away Mrs Ridderbush tainted.
1t was announced at the hospital on
Friday night that Mrs. Ferguson was
likely to die and some one who teephoned
10 ask il her husband. MIR. Ferguson
could see her was told that he could not.
Along about o'clock Policeman Kelleher
arrived from the West Thirtieth street sta
tion. and announced that he wa' going
to put her under arrest on the charge OF
attempted suicide He did not.
She was much improved Yesterday morn
ing and told an assistant to ID :. Morse that
she was Mrs Julian Potter. The assistant
notified Dav Clerk Mertz. who made the
alteration in the register Mr.. Potter visited
her in the morning and while he was there
the afternoon papers giving her name
arrived
Mr.. Potter who is about 40 years old and