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Show SUSPICION SUaRODNEHNfi : DEATH OP MRS. W. SWEDEN LEADS TO INVESTIGATION NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Circumstances surrounding the death from poisoning yesterday of Mrs. Warren C. Sneden at the Hotel Vendome have led Coroner George F. Shrady, Jr., to make an Investigation, In-vestigation, and he will hold an autopsy au-topsy on the (body today. Mrs., Sneden had been found dead In bed by her husband. Dr. Sneden. Dr. and Mrs. Sneden had been patrons pa-trons of the Vendome, off and on, for the last six months. Their last visit began six weeka ago. They said they came from Waveland. ' Fla., and are also reported to have bad a home at Jensen. The Snedena were formerly well known in Brooklyn and at River-head River-head and Jamesport, L. I. Dr. Warren C. Sneden was formerly president of the Metropolitan Savings bank of New York. While living at Rlverhsad. L. I., In November, 1886, Dr. Sneden married Laura E. Dlmon, the daughter of the late John E. Dimon, a retired merchant, who had amassed $300,000 In Lima, Peru, and who spent his last days at Jamesport, L. I. Mrs. Sneden and her sister were the only heirs to the large Dlmon estate. For a few years after the marriage the Snedens lived at No. 131 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, but in November, 1892. Mrs. Sneden left home with her four-year-old daughter Rosalie and went to the home of ex-State Senator Simon Hawkins at Jamestown, L. I. Dr. Sneden applied to the Supreme court In January. 1893, -for a writ of habeas .corpus, and upon the return Justice Bartlett made an order that the doctor must be- .permitted to see his daughter Rosalie once a week. Two months later Dr. Sneden sued his wife for legal separation. Mrs. Sneden, in her sworn answer, admitted. that on several occasions she had abandoned her husband, but declared de-clared that he bad treated her with ereat cruelty. Under the influence of their daughter daugh-ter Rosalie, the Snedens were reconciled, recon-ciled, and on June 27, 1893, Justice Bartlett granted an order of discontinuance discon-tinuance in the separation proceedings. |