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Patient In FBI Probe Dies At VA Hospital

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Ann Arbor News, October 9, 1975
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October
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1975
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Patient In FBI Probe Dies At VA Hospital

The death on Tuesday of Jess Q. Brower at the Veterans Administration Hospital here is “not suspicious,” but an autopsy was performed “in case there were questions later,” states Assistant Chief of Staff Gary Calhoun.

Brower, 67, of Jackson, was briefly the subject of an FBI investigation after his breathing apparatus was mysteriously disconnected on Sept. 28.

His death is attributed to lung cancer and bilateral pneumonia, VA Hospital officials report.

They also state there is no relationship between the disconnection of Brower’s breathing apparatus, which nearly caused death, and a continuing FBI investigation of deaths of VA Hospital patients last summer from respiratory arrests caused by injection of the drug Pavulon.

Three members of Brower’s family — his stepson, Henry Norton and his wife Marian, both of Saginaw County, and Brower’s wife Louise, of Jackson — have said they were questioned by FBI agents following the Sept. 28 incident.

Mrs. Brower said Wednesday she suspects no one in connection with Brower’s death. Earlier, she had said she suspected “a red-headed nurse” of disconnecting the breathing apparatus on Sept. 28.