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Show A YOUNG GIRL'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Sha Took an Overdooa of Morphine-Tha Death to ba Inraatlgated. New YoitK, Feb. 2. Miss Helen Potts, a beautiful and accomplished girl of 20 years, diiughtor of George II. Potts, a woalthy railroad and mine owner, who lives at Asbury Park, died suddenly yesterday rr.orningin a private boarding school from morphine poisoning. poison-ing. She had been troubled with nervousness nerv-ousness and insomnia for some time, and Saturday night took a capsule supposed sup-posed to contain twenty-five grains of quinine and one grain of morphine, which had been prescribed by t'arlyle W. Harris, a medical student and warm friend of herself and family. There are several theories as to ' the death. An inexperienced clerk may have substituted morphine for quinine or the girl may have had the prescription prescrip-tion renewed and died by the cumulative cumula-tive action of a large number of capsules. cap-sules. The family is connected with the most prominent families of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and New Jersey. |