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Died. Ethel S. Sanford, wife of John Sanford, famed carpet manufacturer, horse owner; at Brookville, L. I. She was several times hostess to the Prince of Wales on his recent visit. On Sept. 28, while she sat with a notable company at dinner in her house, her jewel box was robbed of $50,000 worth of jewels.
Died. William Walton Kitchin, 58, onetime (1909-1913) Governor of North Carolina, and brother of the late (TIME, June 11, 1923) Claude Kitchin, onetime Democratic Floor Leader in the House of Representatives; at Scotland Neck, N.C.
Died. Frances Louise Tracy Morgan, 82, widow of the late J. P. Morgan; in Highland Falls, N.Y. At her bedside were her three daughters: Anne, patron of numerous charitable organizations; Juliet, wife of William Pierson Hamilton, Manhattan banker; Louisa, wife of Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Manhattan lawyer. J. P. Morgan, son, was summoned home from a European trip, arrived too late.
Died. John Walter Cross, 84, husband of George Eliot, famed authoress; in England. Cross, who was a friend of the novelist's common-law husband, George Henry Lewes, persuaded her, aged 63, to marry him a few months before her death in 1880. He was 21 years her junior.
Died. Sir Archibald Geikie, 88, famed geologist, onetime President of the Royal Society, the London Geological Society, onetime Director General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom; at Haslemere, England. He gained fame at 23 with a book, The Story of a Boulder.