     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED CARETAKER STATED THAT ON OCTOBER 29, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS GIVEN SOME CHICKEN SOUP AND TOAST AND WENT TO BED ABT. 9:00 P.M..  THE FOLLOWING MORNING, ABT. 3:00 A.M., SHE TELEPHONED HER CARETAKER AND ADVISED THAT SHE WAS VOMITING.   THE CARETAKER RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENCE AND STAYED UNTIL THE DECEASED FELL ASLEEP AGAIN  WHICH WAS ABT. AN HOUR LATER.     THE CARETAKER LEFT THE RESIDENCE AND WHEN SHE RETURNED A FEW HOURS LATER, SHE FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED IN BED.
      DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS IN FAIRLY GOOD HEALTH PRIOR TO A FALL SHE SUFFERED ABT. 2 WEEKS AGO AND HAD A COMPRESSION FRACTURE OF L-1.   SHE WAS LAST SEEN BY DR. SANFORD A FEW DAYS AGO AND HAD NO SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
