Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1912 — DIED BY PEACH-ROOT POISON [ARTICLE]

DIED BY PEACH-ROOT POISON

Death of New York Sculptor Traced tq, Ingredient in Chinese Medicine. Seattle. —Polson extracted from the roots of peach trees, said to have been one of the ingredients of medicine prescribed by a Chinese herb doctor, is believed by Coroner C. Snyder to have caused the death of Louis Potter, a New York sculptor, who died here. An analysis of the medicine is being made and the police are instituting a search of the Pacific coast cities for the Chinefee doctor, who has' been missing since Potter’s death. Friends here' say Potter had long been deeply Interested in Oriental mysticism, but none of those questloded had heard anything from the sculptor of the treatment he was undergoing at the hands of the Chinaman. S Corener Snyder described the woman who was with Potter at the hotel before he died as “apparently highly intellectual,* about forty-eight years old. medium height and Slender build.