The Dreiser's masterpiece and the true story behind it
Directly contradicting the previous post, this article from New York Times, 30 Dec 1905 says that his wife changed her mind in the last moment and did come to see him at his deathbed, arriving a few minutes before Charles Yerkes’ was pronounced dead.
A sobering look into the nature of the relationship between Charles Yerkes and his second wife in his later years, this clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 29 Dec 1905 says that Mrs. Yerkes (Mary Adelaide Moore) “did not see her husband during his illness and said she didn’t intent to”
