The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-04-02
SAYS MORGAN
HAD CAMPER
Said to be Report Of Post
mortem Eyaminat'o.l
LITERALLY STARVED TO 1EATA

He Was Unable to Take NourI2hmen,
| For Days Before the End cine in
Roman Hotel.
Rome. April 2.-The body OF e Pier.
pont Morgan after it had ben EN-.
balmed and dressed, was enclosed in
walnut casket, lined with white bro
cade. This was then placed in a
leaden easket and finally In \ third
case of heavy walnut, with gd|d and
silver fittings.
United States Ambassador GBrien
has offered to hold funeral &sryice
at the embassy in pursuance Sof in
State Bryan.
No definite arrangements hA4s been
made for the transport of the <}dy to
America, but it is understood e ar
comodatiomn has been ohe1 on
board the Koenig Albert. leaNl Ma
pies on April 4.
M. Pulaski, student of the Hmeri.
can Art academy, took a death mask
Of Mr.. Morgan for memoTis htch
the academy will erect. Thin Il the
second mask taken, the frgt ttng
made by Prince Paul Trcubx koy,
who accompanied Post WheefS Of
the United States embassy, the
death chamber.
Mrs. Herbert Satterlee. daugGf Of
Mr.. Morgan and his favorite Cd j, Is
prostrated with grief and ~ hing
cared for by physician and = se. |
Previous statements made the |
doctors disclosed the fact thu Mr.. |
Morgan had been unable to talk4 God. |
He simply wasted away and q ally
starved to death. Artificial snd lsh.
ment was resorted to last WI kes-
day and continued to the last
A statement attributed to P5p aorl
Bastianelli follows:
"Mr. Morgan's death was d bri-
marily to nervous collapse, due e1y
to his strenuous life and lack n Epr
to recuperate energy, both ui9&{ nd
physical, which a younger mal ht
have expended with impunff katt
which man of seventy-six eat
pect to do. The immediate c1f ISL
stomach trouble which, actinS Vel
system, caused hi8 &6
Until two days ago had ho@ tI
his constitution would ii
through, but, as often ha< 4
these cases, nature succumbe
unexpectedly, and the end
~ 9iQi fha Dody showed tiIaIsz t|
financier had died of canceE5 el
stomach was a report persisten< CIR
culated. Doctors who attende1
Morgan refused to affirm or deny the
report, but Professor Bastiaael re-
ferred again to the written st4felnent
prepared by the physicians and }tnrn-
ed over to Herbert L. Satterieef spn
in-law of Mr.. Morgan.
"Mr. Satterlee will make the state
ment public at his discretions SAID
Professor Bastianelli.
The symptoms in Mr.. Morgan'F case
tended, it is declared, to bear opt the
report that cancer of the stomach had
caused death Mr.. Morgan's st4mach
would retain no nourishment even be-
fore it became necessary to Inject his
food. In the last forty-eight hours
there was no assimilation, and during
the last hours Mr. Morgan suffered In
tense internal pain, as was shown Dy
the deep lines of the face and con
traction of the muscles of the right
hand.
The physicians are said to have ad
mitted that they could not satisfac-
torily explain the complete nervous
exhaustion and collapse of the Imam
cier, finding no evidence of organic
disease. Mr.. Morgan fully expected to
recover.
81 will be up and about by Sunday.
sure" Mr. Morgan had told DR.. George
A. Dixon on Saturday. Don't baby
me so. If only l could get aboard my
boat"
He insisted at that time that he
would be able to leave Rome on Tues
day. He had ordered a special train
to take him to Aix-les-Bains. where
he hoped to spend his seventy-sixth
birthday anniversary on April H.