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Died. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 71, author (The White Company, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before he passed over. . . . My [parents] were devoted to each other at all times. . . . His last words were to her. He simply smiled up at her and said: 'You are wonderful.' "
Died. Sir Joseph George Ward, 74, 1906-12, 1928-30 prime minister of New Zealand; at Wellington, N. Z.
Died. Mrs. Fannie Rochester Rogers, Si, believed to be the last surviving grandchild of Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of Rochester, N. Y. (1810); of old age; at Rochester.
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens Hadden, 85, wife of Board Chairman Crowell Hadden of Brooklyn Savings Bank, grandmother of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; of a heart attack; at the Manhattan home of her son, President Howard S. Hadden of Dorland Agency, Inc. (advertising).
Died. Harvey Washington Wiley, 85, longtime (1883-1912) Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture, champion of the pure food & drugs laws; of heart disease after a year's illness; at Washington, D. C. (see p. 32).
Left. By the late President John William Clark of Clark Thread Co. of Newark and Spool Cotton Co. of New York (died 1928): an estate of $12,957,775.