New-York tribune., 1909-02-13
MRS. M'COOK KILLED
WIDOW OF SON OF TIGHT
ING DAN"
MYSTERIOUS Automobile Deals Death
BIow-Egp;res in Home OF Gen
eraI Anson O.. McCOok.

r,.s,h came Yesterday after she had been
..v,,cl, nv an automobile. TO Mrs Loraln r
McCook. sixty-nt1e years old. widow OF Genera
T7sv-in stanton McCook, son Of the famous
-rrixh+ing Dan" She expired at 2:so p m IN
the home Of her husbands cousin, General Arlsoh
c. McCook. No 80 West b4th street
Mrs. MoCook was run down by an unidenti-
6ed automobile some time between 1918 and
1890 O'Clock and taken to General McCooks
home by q chauffeur who gave fictitious name
and address. All that she could say before los
ing consciousness was. Il was struck by an
automobile"
Mrs. McCock had been staying with her
dsughter-i11-lsw. Mrs Charles NJ. McCook, OF
Englevood- n. J, and came here yesterday with
her 70 visit the family Of General McCook- Cen
e-al and Mrs. McCook were away. Mrs. Nc
Cook Mrs. Charles NJ. McCook and Miss Nc
Cook, the generals daughter. went TO the Second
Christian Scientist Church. Central Park West
and ssth street Leaving the church. Mrs Nc
Cook decided TO go by trolley to the house Of
friend IN East 18th street. Her daughter-in-law
and Miss MoCook walked through Central Park.
leaving Hrs McCook waiting for car at esth
street and Central Park West at 12:15 o'clock.
All trace of Mrs McCook is lost between this
tine and 1890 O'Clock or thereabouts. when
General McCook's butler, James Robinson. went
20 the door and was asked by chauffeur II
Mrs z s McCook lived there
Yes" replied the butler. ''She is visiting
here"
well. she was run down by an automobile" !"
saia the chauffeur. and we have brought her
home"
The butler and the chauffeur removed Mrs.
NoCook from the lap OF middle aged man.
who was occupying the tonneau with a woman
Dr. Dever Smith Bayard. of No. 155 East 10th
street was called. but Mrs McCook died soon
The butler asked the chauffeur his name. and
the latter wrote piece Of wrapping paper
torn from package belonging TO Mrs. McCook
..Richs-d Fisher or Richard fisher. G2T Madi-
ron avenue"
But a detective was unable to md a man Of
that name ar that address. Detectives Lowen-
helm and Barber could learn little from the
butler about the chauffeur, the automobile and
fts occupants except that the car was dark
limousine and was pointed toward Sixth avenue
and that the occupants were middle eged and
dressed IN dark clothes
Dr. Albert T Weston. coroners physician
found that five Of Mrs McCook's ribs on the
Jeff side were broken From marks on her
ric4hsnp he inferred that she had been struck
On the left side but not over Coroner
shrsdv. he said, would conduct an inquest Dr'
weston believed Mrs McCook had been run
down At S5th street and Madison avenue whhe
transferring from one csr TO another. The ac-
,r;dert might have occurred while she was
aBztting from a car at 18th street and Madison
avenue Another supposition is that she was
s4r,,ck while boarding an Eighth avenue car at
6Sth street and Central Park West or while
transferring at Seth street, for in both cases
the track Is very near the sidewalk.
The starters, policemen or shopkeepers at any
NJ these ponts had seen or heard nothing of any
accident
Mrs McCook had been living in Chicago for
q number of years Her husband. General Ed
win Stanton McCook. fatally shot by p B.
zvinteruaute on September II, 1878 while pre-
Esdins at a public meeting IN Yankton, 8 D.
General McCook was then acting Governor OF
Dakota He was the seventh son. and Coionei
1oh1 7 mcCook was the ninth and youngest son
a. fT,a family whose members fought with 50
,,,ct distinction through the Civil War
colonel John ]. McCook is at the home OF ms
cousin General Anson G. McCook, who is SAID
- te sn Florida His wife is at Pomfret Conn.,
,,s,+irr her son. who is a student at the Pom
fret school
EyorFztne-on rneagre description OF the cnaui-
fe,,r as man about feet 10 inches tan, CT cark
-nn1nlerion and wearing dark, military coat
the notice said at midnight that they had been
unable TO find the chauffeur or the owner OF
4he car They were also unable 10 say where
the accident occurred