The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-12
BLOOD CLOT ON
HEART KILLED
GENERAL GRANT
At Least That is Cause Assigned
by Physician
Never Fully Rallied From Opera
ton For Affection of
Throat

New York, April 12AFriends Of Gem
eral Frederick Dent Grant. U. s. A.,
commanding the Division Of the East.
were greatly grieved today over the
circulation Of reports intimating that
there w1e mystery lin connection
with his sufden death in the Hotel
Buckingna.i sarly today.
asnch reports are terribly in err
ror." said w. A, burlington. who was
attorney for both General Grant and
his father, the former president. The
standing OF DR.. Robert Able, the dis
tinguished specialist who signed the
death certificate showing that 1t was
a clot of blood on the heart that
caused final collapse. should be suf-
ficient to set rumors to rest"
The reports circulated were due to
the mystery that has surrounded the
Generals Illness, which was accen-
tuated by his fear that he had in
herited cancer from his distinguished
father. Captain u. s. Grant, son OF
the dead soldier, returned today from
Washington, and will make the fu-
neral arrangements after consulting
with his mother. who has been under
DR.. Abbe's care since the General
died
Universal sorrow was expressed
over the death of General Grant and
the feeling of grief was not confined
to military circles as Ahe dead SOL
dier was popular in all ranks here.
Fred Grant as young man was
the constant companion of his dis
tinguished father. General U. 5.
Grant, and he often told friends that
the sight of his fathers suffering had
completely unnerved him. When he
was seized with throat trouble last
year he was Immediately convinced
that the malady which ended the ca
reer of his distinguished sire, cancer
of the throat and tongue, had laid its
heavy hand on him and all efforts to
shake on that feeling failed.
Friends believed today that this
feeling of depression must have in
4erfered with the success of the oper-
alton recently performed, although
the cause of death as certified by the
attendant physicians was heart fail
ure-
TeIeerams and cablegrams of SYM
pathy were received from all over the
world at the Hotel Buckingham to-
day, where the grief-stricken family
are staying The funeral arrange
ments are in charge of the Generals
son, Captain Grant. The funeral vii
be a military one and will probably
be held Sunday or Monday.
The General had been at the Buck
ingham only since Wednesday night
having been taken there from the
hospital in the hope that his sur
roundings would be more cheerful an6
add to the rapidity of his recovery
Early last evening he was feelins
better than at any time since he was
first taken i'll. but about IL o'clock hi
became faint and soon afterward the
heart seizure followed. Before doc
tors, who had been frantically tele-
phoned for, arrived, the General was
dead 1t was only when an ambur
lance doctor was called that it was
definitely determined that the Gen.
eral was in the hotel. Even then
for a long time there was a BELIEF
that It was Captain Grant, and not
his father, that was dead
Among the kilograms of coincidence
received was one from President and
Mrs Taft.
The oflcial death certificate, which
was filed with the Board of Health
by DR.. Robert Abbe, fixed the ca use
Of death at cardiac trombossis o:
blood clot on the heart.