The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-12

ingham, where he had been taken Sc
cretly on Wednesday evening By his
physicians. His presence in this city
was not known until the news that
he had been suddenly stricken was
flashed to newspaper Offices by the
police. policeman stationed near the
hotel had called an ambulance at the
request Of an employee, who told MIN
that General Grant was choking 10
DEATH
Although there had been rumors OF
General Grants illness and reports that
he would never again take up his du-
ties on Governors Island, the news
of his death came as a distinct shock
to the public. According to DR.. Robert
Able and DR.. Edward b. Dench, his
physicians, the death of the general
was caused by heart failure. He had
been suffering for sometime, they as
serted in an official statement, from
diabetes and attendant digestive dis
turbances."
Recent reports that Gen. Grant had
been in a private pavilion in st. Luke
hospital in the CITY,. suffering from a
cancerous growth under the tongue
the same affection which caused the
death of his distinguished father, were
denied today by the hospital authori-
ties. DIR. Able, who had been the
generals family physician for yearD,
refused to discuss the subject.
Mrs. Grant was with her husband
when he died. nurse was the only
other person present
The first intimation that General
Grants condition had suddenly become
serious was given when Mrs. Grant tel
ephoned to the hotel clerk about 11:4s
o'clock.
''The generals son is dying" she
said. Historically. Get a doctor
quick" She added that he had been
seized with q choking spell.
Help Came Too Late.
The clerk made an effort to get Dr.
Abbe on the telephone. Failing In
this, he sent a bell boy to the physi-
clans home nearby. The haste Of the
boy caused Policeman Malloy to in
o1ire what the trouble was
General Grant is choking TO death.
Get a DOCTOR" was the boys response
MaIlov turned in an ambulance call.
but before the hospital surgeon reach
ed the hotel both Doctors Able and
Dench had been located and were at
the bedside.
The ambulance surgeon and the po-
liceman who went to the apartments
were told there was nothing they coulo
do. DR.. Able informed Coroner Holz-
hauser that he would file death Ger
tifcate promptly and that no inquest
would be necessary.
To newspaper men who reached the
buckingham shortly after midnight,
efforts were made by the attendants
to deny that General Grant was al
the hotel. The management hna1ly was
persuaded to communicate with the
who announced that Gen.
Grant had died before their arrival
Doctors Abbe and Dench later sent
down to the hotel management state
ment. in which they said.
General Grant died suddenly OF
heart failure without premonition, at
midnight. He had retired at IL o'clock
in better condition than for
several weeks. Since his recent trip
his medical condition had given no
special anxiety to his physician. Gen.
Grant had been suffering from dia-
betes and the attendant digestive dis
tl1rba noes, which seemed, however, 70
he perfectly under control. This sud-
den fatal termination came as great
surprise"
Mrs. Grants Statement.
According to Mrs. Grant, the gen.
eraI retired about II O'Clock. Half
an hour later he was seized with a
choking attack which awoke his wife.
she shook the general and called TO
him. but he did not respond Rush
ing to a telephone, she notified the
night clerk to call physician. DR..
Abbey, who at first could not be
found, suddenly appeared, and he and
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