Evening star., 1924-12-10
|NCE DEATH PROBE
BRINGS RUM HINTS
Doctor and Nurse Heard in
Inquiry Into Yacht
Party Details.
BY the Associated Press.


10.-The illness and death of Thomas
II. Ince, motion picture producer. sub
sequent to a yacht party in San Diego
harbor last month. has been made the
subject of an official investigation by
Chester C. Kempley, district attorney
of San Diego County, the Los
Angeles Times says today.
Ince died of acute indigestion, su-
perinducing heart failure, according g
to the report of his attending physi-
clans. The circumstances surround
ing the illness, which apparently
seized the producer early on Novem-
Der Il, while aboard the Interna-
tional Film Corporations yacht
Oneida. are what Kempley hopes TO
clear up with his investigation, the
Times explains.
Two Tell of Liquor.
Among those so far interviewed by
the district attorney, two, DR.. Tru-
man A. Parker and Miss Jessie How
ard, trained nurse, have both stated
the Times quotes kempley as saying,
that Ince connected his illness with
liquor
DIR. Parker was called to attend the
producer when the latter was at Del
Mar. Calf, en- route to Los Angeles,
after leaving the yacht He is quoted
as saying that Ince talked of having
partaken of considerable liquor
aboard the yacht"
Miss Howard, on the other hand,
according to Kempley, said Ince told
her his illness was caused by bad
liquor" In saying that, she said, he
was seized with coughing spell.
which brought up traces of blood
At her home here Mrs Ince, widow
of the producer, declared she knew
of no circumstances about the yacht
ing party which would warrant an
investigation. She said she felt her
husband had not been drinking
heavily.
What the district attorney and his
investigators have been able to learn
of the yacht party and Ince's illness
is contained in the following, ac-
cording to the Times:
The yacht Oneida left San Pedro
Harbor late Saturday, November Is,
dropping anchor in San Diego Harbor
early Sunday.
Screen Stars Aboard.
Aboard were William Randolph
Hearst, publisher: Elinor Glyn,
novelist; Marion Davies and Seena
owen, motion picture actresses; DR..
Daniel Carson Goodman, head of the
Cosmopolitan productions, and others.
1nce left the yacht early Monday
with DR.. Goodman, and with him
boarded the morning train for Los
Angeles. Witnesses said the producer
at that time appeared to be in
distress
Twenty miles out of San Diego, at
Del Mar, DIR. Goodman removed Ince
from the train, hailed passing
automobile and too kthe sufferer to a
hotel. DR.. Parker then was sum
moned, and he, in turn, called for
the trained nurse, Miss Howard.
When he arrived at the hotel Dr.
Parker found Ince in his shirt sleeves,
lying upon bed in the room which
had been engaged for him. He helped
the patient disrobe. and with DR..
Goodman present examined him.
He diagnosed the case as heart
trouble and prescribed remedies. His
questioning of the patient brought
out that the latter had smoked a
great deal during the previous "a
hours, had eaten heartily and par
taken of liquor
DR. Parker left instructions that the
patient should rest and when he call
ed again that night Ince appeared
much improved.
He planned to see the patient again
the next day. but was informed in a
note left with the hotel clerk by Mrs
lnce, who had been hurriedly sum-
moned from Los Angeles. that his
services would no longer be required.
Mrs. Ince later called in Dr. Ida c.
Glasgow of Los Angeles, who took
charge of the case.