Cambridge Medical Examiner Calls Sagorsky Death Suicide

The official report of the Cambridge Medical Examiner on the death of Harvey M. Sagorsky '57 has been received by the Hygiene Department, Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, announced yesterday.

After laboratory tests which took two weeks to complete, the Examiner reached a verdict of suicide by poisoning. Farnsworth said that the origin of the poison was undetermined.

Sagorsky was found dead in his Claverly room on the night of May 12, shortly after 11 p.m. Farnsworth and Dean Watson were summoned to the scene, and the Cambridge Medical Examiner ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

At the time, neither Farnsworth nor Dean Watson felt that foul play or suicide had been the cause of Sagorsky's death. They believed that he had an intestinal disorder and had apparently been vomiting violently just before he died. Sagorsky was a science concentrator from Los Angeles.