The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-22
ROOSEVELT HAD her BURIED
AND ACCEPTED THE CATS MRS.
GROVER BEQUEATHED HIM.
Directs Hunt for Relatives oE suicide VINO
Made Him Sole Legatee and VINO. II j.
Found. Left some Money sent Presents
10 Teddy, Jr.. and wrote Many Letters.

in her apartment at 2OS9 Lexington avenue
after she had willed all OF her property
to President Roosevelt, it was thought
that her estate would barely pay the en-
penses OF her funeral. Within the last
few days, however, Secret Service agents,
cooperating with the Public Administrator
! under directions from Washington, have
found hidden in the apartment about 81 200
worth OF jewelry and a pass book showing
between 5000 and 500 standing To Mira.
Growers credit in a savings bank, 1t II
possible that other property may be TN
covered.
The President has taken steps to have the
will probated and the woman's relatives
located. The only part Of the bequeet
which he will accept are two Angora oats
which were mentioned specifically - thu
woman's testament. They have already
been sent to the White House. The Presi-
dent, if the relatives are found, will see
that they get the property; II not he Will
give it to some charitable institution.
Mr.. Roosevelt issued instructions. even
before it was discovered that the woman
had left any property, that she should have
a decent burial. She was crematei al ~
Long Island institution in accordance ~ltn
her written wish and her ashes were laid
away a day or two ago in v oodlawn Ccrn"-
terry, one or two friends. the undertake.
and a Secret Service agent being the only
mourners at the funeral.
Some Of the developments since the
woman ended her life by drinking chloro-
form became public yesterday. and United
States District Attorney Henry l.. Stimson!
who has been representing the President
in the matter, willingly gave the details.
Mrs. Grover, it will be recalled, left In her
apartment this letter addressed tn rhs
Coroner, OF the first police officer who
should find her body
| beg Of Won 10 telephone 10 Preside Mt
Roosevelt. lie will have my body cremared,
| have written to him, have made nov viii
and all | have in his. He viii have every
thing attended 10 Just as Lwish it to be, aud all
will be right. He knows where TO And every
thing
Please find enclosed s. aud n rho usspd
thanks for your kiudness, Please do n1t l~'
my poor kittens be frightened or annoyed.
President Roosevelt will take them as soon ~
he receives my letter I mailed tonight 10 him.
Please let them stay here until then. Nv
heart is broken. no | take my own life IN the
familiar way ! know, by drinking chloroform.
No one il TO blame but myself. T. trust my
spirit and future life 70 n mercirul and loving
! God who knows and judges our sorrow.
The police turned the property over to
the Public Administrators after they had
searched the rooms and found practically
no valuables except the furniture.
The letter referred TO in the note 10 the
police was received at the White House
the day after the account OF the suicide
appeared in the newspa pers. This letter
informed the President that he might find
the will and a bank book sewed In the lining
of the "cat basket" and the Jewels in a
hiding place under the hearth.
The President forwarded the letter with
out delay to Mr.. Stimson with orders that
he should cooperate with the Secret Service
men and turn the will and all the property
over TO the Public Administrator. The
undertaken wrote to the President about
this time wanting TO know where he should
look for his pay, and 1t was in respons to
this letter that Mr.. Roosevelt instructed
District Attorney Stimsoni through Secrs-'
tary Loeb, that the woman should not be
buried in a pauper's grave. ,
Asearch of the apartment quickly brought
TO light the things referred to in the letter.
WHICH hTS. NhTONcI a. WAlLJCh W Nuo \
lent. The cat basket was a neat wioker2
affair lined outside and in with silk, Ini
this basket slept Mrs. Growers two petS
AnGoras, Magistrate Joseph Pool and
Queen Fairy Snowdrop. The bank book
and the will were under the inside lining,
The hiding place under the hearth, where
the Jewels were secreted in a leather hand.
bag, consisted Of a niche in the chimney,
which was reached by running ones arm
up into the smoke vent Of the fireplace.
The jewelry consisted chiefly Of small
diamond pieces.
The Public Administrators had no dif'-
Guilty in taking care Of these and othet
inanimate things found In the apartment.
but when it came TO the cats he was puzzled.
The will provided explicitly that they should
be taken by the President. The people In
the house had been caring for them stncs
the woman died and they were beginning
TO complain.
The public administrator William NJ,
Hoes, held a conference with United States
District Attorney Stimson. and the Presi-
dents representative in turn got into COM
munication with Secretary Loeb. WORD
Carne back from Washington to send the
cats on, and Joseph Pool n Fairy Queen
Snowdrop left this city in tho care Of a
veterinary
The will, having first disposed OF the cats,
made the President the sole legatee Of the
estate and also the sole executor. It con-
tanned one sentence to the effect that what
she bequeathed could not in any measure
express her gratitude for the klndnesses
which he had done her.
Mr.. Stimson said yesterday that lths'
President had no dea Of what ths woman
was referring 20 in this sentence OF the will.
He did not know Who she was and never
to his knowledge had met her.
The Presidents secretary when the
letter announcing he existence OF thu
will in Mr.. Roosevelt's favor was received,
recognized the handwriting Of the woman
"a the sarne as that on several other letters
which the President and members OF his
family had Tsceived in tho course OF the last
eight or ten years.
When Mr.. Roosevelt was Governor his
son, Theodore, Jr., received three or four