The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-02
VICTORIA C0NN0R'S FATE.
STATEN ISLANDS MYs7ERY BRINGING
TO LIGHT OTHER CRIMES.
Arresting Three Physicians. the Mother, and
% Hotel Clerk ON IA Charge Of Causing tho
Death Of "a Glrl-A Dark Deed Revealed.


Hotel Clerk on "a Charge OF Causing the
Death OF IA Giri-A Dark Deed Revealed.
Capt. Blake Of Staten Island brought to
Inspector Murray Of this city ten days ago ono
OF the dozen anonymous letters which lie and
Coroner Dempsey have received since the flnd-
ing Of the body OF the girl on the shore Of Silver
Lake. The story in the letter was that the body
would prove TO be that OF Sarah Victoria Connor
who died at 307 East Twenty sixth street where
she had been living with her mother and little
brother. Inspector Murray and Capt. Clinchy
made inquiries which have resulted in the ar
rest of five persons.
Vickie Connor. as her friends called her. wns
1S years OF age last March She had brown
hair. n full. merry face sprightly manners an
attractive figure. and u taste for dress. She
worked in drcssmaking establishment In
Second avenue and Thirtieth street. but
latterly she was employed very little OF her
time. By inquiring among tho inmates OF the
large tenement where the girl lived the officers
nscertained the names OF two men who were re-
ported az paying her attentions. These were
William Blinn. night clerk OF tho Hotel
brunswick. and DR.. Frederick II. Lay. who
graduated last spring from the Bellevue
Hospital College and who served his first day
rs q junior physician in Bellevue Hospital
yesterday. His father Is q well-known ply
scian In this city.
Neither these nor any other young man ever
called on the girl at her home, but she went
out alone nearly every evening.
Lay, while n student. used TO pass up and
down before the house every day on his way to
and from the college. He is handsome fel-
low. and ii is supposed that the two made each
others acquaintance on the street.
AZ early rs the middle OF July II was noticed
that tho girl was In trouble. ono day early in
June she went away alone. carrying satchel.
She was. gone ten days. and her mother
SAID she Was in The country. At tho
81 the building that her daughter was very sick
and that she would return late that evening.
She wished. therefore. that the janitress would
not turn on tho gas until after her arrival At
10 o'clock tho girl was brought home in n car
rage. DIR. Lay. or ms the janitress and other In
mates Of the house call him, Fred Lane carried
her NJ stairs 10 her mothers rooms in his arms.
assisted by Dr. Emory 9 Bradford' or, as ho
very sick when she arrived and she was at.
tended night and day by nr. Lay. H. stayed
was not there. the girl often. in her raying.
ca!ei Tor him. go
be heard In tho halls.
Neyertheess she partly recovered after few
days. and at the end OF two or three weeks she
was able to sit up at the window. The occu-
pants Oi the house had no doubt in their own
minds as 20 what had been the matter with her.
and what had caused her sudden severe illness
but they considered that it was none OF their
Victoria suffered a relapse on Wednesday.
June 70. She began 10 rave q great deal and
could be quietcd only by srdatIye medicine.
OF the time, until the medicine gvon 10 her be-
gan 10 have its quietins cifeet she cried in
been tnken away from her.
In this relapse she was attended 10y Dr. Brad
DR.. Lay did not call after her Relapse until she
was dead.
shocked ths v'aer occupants II the house. On
the very morning Of her death she told her that
she wished sne was dead and gone where she
would So" No more OF her The only person
VINO attended her remains at tho funeral was
pr bradford. Two DAYS after her laueAter'e
d"nth the m lthrr gave up her apartments and
WIN her litte boy went 10 live with Dr.. Bad
With the essential points Of this story I'm his
possess ion. Inspector Murray went L. the Bu-
r"au % Vital Statistics wh"r, ho found c-rtin-
cate ~ the burial for Sarah Niriorn Couu0r.
with the name oi Dr. Clnrence VI. Baker OF 81
Eas, 10th street attached. This document ccrti-
fled that the girl died Of phthlsis pulmunalls. n
tended ner from May l9to June 27. and that she
had been in poor health for six months. l. was
also Ascertained that Undertaken ID. II. Thorn of
20 sixth street had buried her IN Cypress Hill
Cemetery. in the ground owned by the Masonic
Board Of Relief. her father having been Mason.
The lnspector consulted with Coroner Flana-
gan. aud on Monday oi this week le went with
him. Deputy Coroner Miller. and Cant. Clinchy
- the cemetery, wherc the body was cNhumed.
DR.. John H. Andrews, Sanitary Superin,end-
ent Of Queens County. had been sent Tor. The
6SWad doaI r Rush SH6 the body ASSFSS SS
been in tn. ground over three months. that the
girls lungs had been sound. On the other
hand there were unmistakablc evidences Of
malpractice. part OF the body WAS brought TO
tins city, where II is being subjected 10 closer
After lcnying the cemetery. Inspector Murray
and Capt Clinchy went 10 Dr. Bradford > house
br Braifori DR.. DanieI " Aiken. % his isiTs' part
ner. and Mrs. Connor. They lodged each IN
separate pqlicc, station; They arrested William
Blum and Or. Baker aiterward.
DR.. Bradford refused 10 say anything in his
defence pr. Baker explains his pqrt n the
crime ~ follows; Three months ago DR.. Brad
ford had hurried into his office To summon him
70 attend woman. He went at once and found
Vickie Cnnnor lying on n lounge in Dr. Brad
ford's oire. He recognized Immediately the
condition IN which the patient was. He pre-
scribed. he said. and ,na'terward attended her at
her home IN East Twenty-s xth street He
went 10 the house on june 3. but DR.. Bradford
was ON the stoop and told him there was no use
going W stairs because the girl was doing well.
This was the last time he called on her. he says
but on June 2S' when She died. bradford came
to nm ana asked To- use ms name On the burial
Boari OF Health He consented. Bradford.
he said made out the certificate 10 suit himself.
ana signed II with his bakers name
Mrs. Connor denied 10 the officers all knowl-
edge - the condition Of her daughter. and of
thr alleged malpractice that II Is averred re-
suited in her death.
The evidence on which Blum was arrested
has not yet been disclosed but the IN arrs say
II Is ahundantly strong. Ii II conlectured that
proof may exist that he paid money to Dr.
Bradford for his services
All of m" iour prisoners were Arraigned I'm
the lomhs Police Court yesterday. Inspector
Murray wanted time 10 obtain more evidence.
and the prisoners were rrmanded 10 IN" Police
Central Once until this morning. Subsequently,
Mr.. MllHm /. Howe. who appeared Tor Drs.
Bradford and Aitkrn aud Mrs. Connor, ob-
lninrd u writ Of hAbeas corpus from Judge
Mcsthrnok To- have the prisoners named brought
before him to-day on the ground that there was
no evidence to hold them.
Dr. Lay was arrested yesterday afternoon
whilc attending to his new duties in Bellevue
Hospital. lie VIII be arraiSned IN the Tomhs
Police Court this morning. lie lives at % West
Forty ninth street.
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