Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-13
TRAGIC DEATH Of
 GORDON MCLEAN
GORDON McLEANs GuLPs OUNCE
 OF FoRMAiDEnYOE
Reaches for Mineral Water, Gets Poi
 son Bottle Instead-Rich Man Dies
 Quickly in Presence of His Family.


 The Los Angeles Times in com menting upon the death of Gordon Mclean, formerly mining superintend- ent for the Detroit Copper Mining Co. says:
 Gordon Mclean, a prominent and wealthy mining man of Arizona, came to sudden death on Tuesday evening by taking a drink of formal dehyde in transparent Solution. In place of mineral water, both having been put up in mineral water quart bottles.
 The family consisting of MT. and Mrs. Mclean and their daughter, six years of age, and Mrs. Work, a sis ter of Mrs. Mclean had returned from trip to Arizona on Saturday evening last, stopping a day or two at a hotel till their residence, No. 1912 Beacon street. should be ventilated, as on departing for Morenci three weeks ago they had their dwelling fumigated with formaldehyde to clear it of moths.
 On Tuesday evening the party left the hotel and went to their residence
  They sat for a few minutes in the li- brary chatting. when MT. Mclean went to the bathroom for drink ot water
 Almost immediately afterward he called out to his wife that he had taken formaldehyde in place of mln- eral water, and for her to come quick ly.
 The family hastened to the room, and then Mrs. Mclean ran across the street and summoned Dr. D. K. :, Dickinson, who met her at the door. lie grabbed his case and ran over, l Mir. Mclean within five min | utes after he had taken the deadly l dose.
 MT. Mclean appealed to the Doctor, saying; Doctor, do something for me quickly!"
 Antidotes were administered and ! the stomach pump applied, but so | quick was the action of the poison, | paralyzing the action of the heart l that MT. Mclean was unconscious 1 within six minutes, and ceased to breathe in less than twenty minutes. l other physicians were tele- l phoned for immediately. Drs. Davis, Brainard and Cobb, none of them ar rived until after the death. And | even so, everything passible had been done by Dr. Dickinson.
 The bottle of formaldehyde was labeled. but the label was hidden by the brown wrapping of druggists paper. It was just dusk, and in his haste to quench his thirst MT. Me Lean placed his hand on the poison bottle, thinking it of course bottle of mineral water. He poured draught of the colorless liquid into a tumbler tilted back his head, and swallowed a gulp of the fatal stuff. Before the taste warned him of his fearful mis- take an ounce of the poison had pass ed his throat. Then he cried out for help.
 MT. Mclean was born in Nova Sec tia in 1862, and came to Morenci when 20 years of age, finding wUrK in the mines at once. From m1nIng hand he worked his way up to the superintendency of the entire group of mines controlled by Phelps-Dodge Co. in that locality. He was also pres ident of the water company which sup plies the towns of Morenci and New ton, president of the Improvement Company with it's fine hotel and other enterprises, director of the Gila Val ley Bank & Trust Company, and large owner in the Arizona Copper Company.
 He was a prince among men," with faculty of making firm and fast i friends.
 i Mir. and Mrs. Mclean and their lit tie daughter were devoted to each other. The wife is utterly prostrated with grief.
 TAe funeral will be held from the
 residence on Sunday afternoon at 2