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Show WOMAN OF ARISTOCRATIC LINEAGE IN A TRAGEDY Death of Maj. Hard and Condition of Mrs. Stanley at Denver Probably Due to Accident DENVER. March 4. Mrs. Georglna Stanley, who was found In an unconscious uncon-scious condition in the same room in which lay the dead 'body of MaJ. Marshall Mar-shall Hurd yesterday, proves to be a woman of aristocratic lineage. She Is a granddaughter of Lord Kercastle of Inverness, Scotland. ' Her mother was Lady Allen and her father Governor of an English province in India. Lady Allen by a second marriage became the mother of Sir James Grant of Toronto, one of the most eminent physicians of the Dominion of Canada, who was knighted by Queen Victoria. Mrs. Stanley, It is said, was thrice married. Her first husband and their four chil-ren chil-ren died of the black diphtheria in Quebec. Que-bec. Several years later she married a resident of Washington, D. C who .was in the Government service. A year or so later he shot and killed himself In a hotel at Syracuse, N. T. She then married Herbert Stanley, who was a I Government clerk. Her relatives dls-1 dls-1 approved of the union and the Stanleys Came to Denver to live. About a year go Mr. Stanley died of paralysis, and left his widow practically penniless and helpless on account of ill-health. MaJ. Hurd, who at that time was an inmate of the old soldiers' home at Monte Vfsta, Colo., came to Denver and undertook un-dertook to care for Mrs. Stanley, whose last husband was his friend. The small pension he received from the Government Govern-ment was not sufficient to provide the needs of the couple and assistance was . rendered them by charitable persons, it was on the occasion of one of these visits yesterday that the tragedy at the Hurd home was discovered. The physicians attending Mrs. Stanley Stan-ley believe that her condition and MaJ. Hurd's death were due to breaming the fumes of coal gas. which, escaped Into their room through accident, and the suicide theory Is discredited. Mrs. Stanley, Stan-ley, they believe, has a chance for recovery re-covery of consciousness at least. |