Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-29 | Page 1 | Last Rites of Church Given Sick Woman

LAST RITES OF BIIGEl SICKD All Hope Abandoned for Recorery of Former Mrs. Leeds, American Physician Physi-cian Called to Bedside LONDON. Aug. (By A. P.) Lata thla aftsraooa Princess Anas-tasla's Anas-tasla's breathing became mora labored la-bored and her puis became mora feeble. Her relative assembled to bid her farewell, but ah did not recognise any of them. - Queen Mother Alexandra called la express ths sympathy of the British royal famtlA .Through th window of the houa la St. Jamas' place. Prince Christopher, husband ot ths dying woman, could bo seen weeping and burying hi face la hla head. Princess Aaaataala of Oreece. formerly Mrs. William B. Leeds, wh 'baS bean suffering for some time from aa organ! Intestinal affection, was sinking rapidly and her doctor stated that virtually all bop had beea abandoned. Th last sacraments were administered by a pneat of tha Russian Orthodox- ehureh. Her condition Is so greatly impoverished im-poverished that tha physicians say sll they can do la strlvs ta make bar aa eomfortsbls as. possible. . There Is as hope, they assert, of overcoming - the aerioua organic malady from which aha Is suffering. suf-fering. - Dr. Robert Turner, the American phyalclan, who secompanlsd the prineeee an her laat trip te the L'nlted Statea, arrived her today In response to aa urgent aummoaa, but waa unable to do anything. Th prinova is la a atata of eoma and artificial reetoratlvea are being employed. Prince Chrieinpner and Ansa-tasla's Ansa-tasla's son, William B. Leeds Jr. who Juvs kept almost soaatsnt vigil at tha he a at As throughout her ten weeks ef Illness, are at the point of exbauetion.' ' Tha aged Queen' Mother Ola a of Oreece and Anaetaeta's ascretsry snd com. penlon. Miss Emma Parmentler, hsva denied themsslvss alee p. food and reet la order to oomfort their patient. - ,