Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-02-20 | Page 3 | Strange Death of Beautiful Woman

STUDS DEATH OF BEiTHI!A! Some Mysterious Poison of Unusual Un-usual Power Said fo Have : Heeu Hie Cause. LUCILLE CLARK VICTIM OF BAKKL1NK TKAGEDV Was Girl of Striking Reauty. .Who Came to New York Last, October. KKW YORK. Feb. JO. Home, highly high-ly potential poison not generally known even to many chemists and so powerful as to destroy tho organs of the body within a few hours after its administ ration, caused the death of Miss Lucille f'lark, the beautiful Kng-Iiah Kng-Iiah girl who died a mvst prions deatli in the Hotel Grenoble. "This fact, was shown today by a statement mado bv tho nurso who attended Miss ("Mark while sho was dying. Tho nurse has vnnished, but before alio disappeared sho related to a physician that, she had never attended a case so stnmgo as that of Miss Clnrk. Tho poison affected af-fected the toes and fingers, then tho knees and finally the heart, and all the while the dying woman did not know that sho was dying. Tt ' was a grew-some grew-some story and 'one that shocked even the police. The police, for tho timo being, are baffled because the coroner cannot find a name for the mysterious drug. They think that it must bo a potion known only in a foreign clime and amongst foreign people. British Consul Interested. Tho British consul has become interested inter-ested in the case and is using all tho influence at. his command to havo the mystery cleared up. lie, as well a others, think it is almost beyond belief that in the time that elapsed between Miss Clark fH death at f:H0 o'clock Friday morning and tho autopsy this afternoon decomposition could liaVo be-como be-como so marked. All who knew Miss Clark unite "in saying that her benuly was remarkable. remark-able. She was oT . the 'higher typo of English girls. Of medium height, she possessed a superb figuro aud splendid carriage. Her hair was rod-bronze and very abundant. Her eyes were blue, set far apart, and her complexion complex-ion was the typical fair English '.'peaches and cream.' ' Miss Clark has been in New York since October. Her father, who is dead, was a well-known Knglish army officer who won distinction in tho service. Her brother is said to be an oCfie.er in her father's old regiment. Miss Clark appeared at the Grenoble Gren-oble on October 10, when she rented an apartment from Mrs. A. W. Miller. Soon after shy was joined by a Mr. and Mrs. Fry of Loudon, Kngland. Tuesday night; the Frys and Miss Clark, together with Louis .R. Wicker, a cotton broker, went out to dinner as the guests of a Mrs. A ill or. Soon after returning to the hotel Miss Clark became ill. Dr, Oastlor was called in and diagnosed tho young woman's trouble as ptomaine poisoning. Tn spito of the illness of Miss Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Fry left tho hotel Wednesday Wed-nesday morning, saying they were bound for Santa Barbara, California. Miss Clark becamo worse aud died Fridaj. i Drs. Oastler and Bastcdo said tho reason they made it a coroner's case was that Miss Clark had died alono away from her friends and tho physicians thought it best that an official investigation investi-gation bo made. Miss Lucille Clark, though comparative' compara-tive' unknown . in New York, was very well knowu in England, where her father's connections and her owu, personal qualities admitted her to tho circles of tho high aristocracy. A follow fol-low guest of hers at a recent reception in the cit' found that she was an inti-mato inti-mato friend of the Chamberlains, that sho knew tho lion. Dorothy and Violot Vivian, maids of honor to tho queen, and was counectcd with tho St. Au-byns. Au-byns. Two brothers of Miss Clark aro on tho sea now heading for England, and there is a younger sister who is at school in a convent in Belgium.