Madera (California) Tribune, March 17, 1951

Car Fumes Kill Prominent Family

GREENWICH. Conn. (U.R) Mrs. Brooks Emeny, 46, socially prominent member of the Rockefeller clan, and her two young daughters were found dead last night in the garage of their estate in nearby Deer Park. Medical Examiner C. Stanley Knapp reported the three victims died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Police were investigating the possibility Mrs. Emeny committed suicide, killing her two children Winifred Emeny, 12, and Josephine, 6—with the same fumes. Mrs. Emeny was the daughter of the late Percy A, Rockefeller, who left an estimated $40,000,000 estate when he died in 1934. He was a son of William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., founder of the Standard Oil fortune. The bodies were found by a governess on her return home from a day off. The engines of two of the three cars in the garage were running, police said. Brooks Emeny, husband and father of the three victims, is a State Department consultant, author and lecturer. He was reported flying home from a lecture tour in the midwest after being informed of the tragedy. Another daughter. Faith R„ 18. survives.