The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-08
PATIENT s SH0T
FATAL TO NURSE
Victim Of Act Of Delirious Man
Dies After Brave
Fight.

Washington. ID. c., January i.---ln 9
death last night at Emergency HOS
pita1 OF Miss Mary ltempcrt BroWll
graduate nurse. who was shot through
the right chest the night Of December
~ by Martin l.. Sterling, dellrlous
typhoid fever patient, ended her brave
light for life. Pneumonia, conse-
quence of her wound. caused death.
This evening ut $3.50 O'Clock the body
OF Miss Brown was taken to Norfolk
on n steamer Tomorrow 1t Will hc
conveyed to Littleton, Sussex county,
Va, for interment. Mrs. Agnes Brown,
mother OF the young woman, and Ches-
ter Harrison, relative, accompanied
the body.
This morning Coroner hewitt ana
Deputy Coroner Giazebrook impaneled
u jury OF six men, who were sworn
over the body at wrlght's Undertaking
establishment. They arc: Fredericl,
Fritz, L. Il. Raney. w. a. Toy, Samuel
Darragh, Charles Il. Crane and j. II.
Hunt.
Inquest Waits on Sterling.
Coroner hewitt will hold the inquest
as soon as the condition Of MIR. Sterl-
Ing is such as to permit him to attend
the hearing.
I United States Attorney Baker win
not take the initiative in investignt-
ing the affair. His office is thoroughly
mentally responsible for his act.
me condition of Miss Brown yestor.
Jay morning was such that the attend
ing physicians, Drs. w. p Carr, j. r.
Biggs and George Tully Vaughan
abandoned a. all hope, and SO Informed
prlsed that the end did not come until
$40 O'Clock last night.
MISS Brown was not told Of her Inn
pending death. and, it Is thought, did
though she was 50 weak, she could
scarcely speak yesterday she inquired
Of DR.. Blggs about the condition OF Mr.
Sterling She had inquired about hin
almost every day that she had been in
the hospital and expressed the hope
that he would recover.
Sterling Not Told OF Death.
Mr.. Sterling. who was removed t.
his home, SO C Street, Northwest
was told Of the shooting. has not beer
Informed OF the death of Miss Brown
DIR Biggs thinks 1t would be unsafe a,
this time. His physical condition Is
al that could be expected. but the news
Mrs. Brown mother of the dead girl.
is widow. Her daughter contributed
largely to her support.
DR.. Biggs and others are going to
push tne SdTHeSle Illeudl tCidilu- III tne
case. They hope the widowed mother
will get the, medal to which. they
claim, her daughter was entitled.
With the medal. they hope. Will come
gift of $1,000, as has been made
In other cases.
At the time the brave nurse died
her mother DR.. Biggs, DR.. r. p. Ma.
gruder, superintendent of the Elmer
gency Hospital. and Miss Kilgore, the
nurse in charge of the patient. were in
tho a number Of relatives
in another part of the hospital await
ing news of the end from the sick
chamber
While Mr.. Sterling was informed of
the shooting last Sunday before he was
removed from the George Washington
University Hospital he is still un-
aware of all the circumstances. He
does not yet realize what close call
his wife and daughter had that fateful
sunday night. nor Is he likely to know
all until he has fully recovered
1t is probable that Mr.. Sterling Will
be sent away from the city for a short
while as soon as he is able to travel.
When he fully RECEIVERS he may be call
ed upon to attend the inquest.