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Source: Philadelphia Record Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Widow’s Grief Is Pitiful” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Date of publication: 16 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: 10788 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Widow’s Grief Is Pitiful.” Philadelphia Record 16 Sept. 1901 n10788: p. 1. |
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| George B. Cortelyou; Ida McKinley (medical condition); George B. Cortelyou (public statements); Ida McKinley (grieving). |
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| George B. Cortelyou; Jennie Hobart; Charles Edward Locke; Abner McKinley; Ida McKinley; William McKinley; Presley M. Rixey. |
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Widow’s Grief Is Pitiful
PATHETIC SCENE AFTER LATE PRESIDENT’S BODY WAS TAKEN.
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Ladies with Mrs. McKinley Thought It Would Be Necessary to Bring It Back.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 15.[—]George Cortelyou,
the secretary of the late President McKinley, was asked this afternoon if it
were true as stated, that Mrs. McKinley had collapsed so completely as to necessitate
the use of drugs, which had been continued up to to-day, rendering her unconscious
of the death of her husband.
“That is an infamous falsehood,” said Mr. Cortelyou.
“Mrs. McKinley is fully conscious of the death of her husband. Her grief is
very pathetic. To-day, when the President’s body was carried out, she broke
down in a paroxysm of weeping, and these attacks have continued during the day.
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“She realized keenly the departure of the President
from her life when his body was taken away from the house to-day. Since then
her grief has been terrible. It increases as the time comes for the conveyance
of the President’s body to Canton, their home and the grave. She is bearing
up under the blow better than we expected, but her grief is sad to witness.”
Just before the funeral services in the house
began Abner McKinley, Mrs. Hobart and Dr. Rixey assisted Mrs. McKinley into
the room where the President’s body rested. The bereaved wife was left alone
with her dead for half an hour. At the end of that time she was assisted upstairs
again.
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The grief-stricken widow of the murdered President listened to Rev. Mr. Locke’s fervent prayer over her husband’s body from the top of the stairway connecting the first and the second floors of the Milburn house to-day. She consented to the removal of the body to the Buffalo City Hall to-day, but afterward her grief became so pathetic that the ladies with her thought it would be necessary to have it returned. She calmed down, however, during the afternoon and slept for a time.