The New York herald., 1879-12-30

ais denied that the body had arrived until the day
down that day as the boat would not wait for it..
After vain efforts to get the body irsvas sent down
on the 25th.
'When and in what condition did you secure itY'
asked the reporter.
..on the 10th brother Arnold aud the undertaken
got the body and took it to the office of the former
in Second avenue. near Twenty first street. from
whh on
it, tell that the skull was cut away the lower
jaw missing. the only arm he had gone. some OF his
ribs broken and half pound of hesh left on the
whole body. The shows were all exposed. He was
all ready to be boiled.
AT this point the poor widow was so overcome thas
According to information obtained at the Morgue
yesterday afternoon MIR. Thomsen's body mu-
tated because the clerk of the hospital neglected to
give notice that the deceased had wife friends.
The body was sent to the Dead House for exarnina-
peared to claim the remains they were considered
ssurknown," and turned to the doctors for dis
section. 10 get little light the mystery the
porter called at the clerks Office in the hospital for
copy of the first entry made on tho arrival OF the
patient. ...s
Mr.. Dennis Sullivan tho clerk. refused to permit
the copy to be made. and he would not allow the re-
"what Is all this row about any ways" put in
,"oh. it's that Thomson case" replied Sullivan |. an
with prolonged and significant wink. "Well." he
won't on, 'if your paper wants anything Oh these
books ask the Warden in the room above"
tained the necessary permission but on his return
the clerk still refused to show the books and said
that he would take no mans word. Mr.. sullivan
was then informed that Bellevue Hospital was pub
lie Institution, paid for by the people and managed
by the peoples servants, and that its records
subordinate officer. He angrily retorted that he
knew his business and he had received positive
ders from the Warden.
"But the Warden says you shall show your
books"
II will see the Warden myself" and the clerk
up stairs only to return and acknowledge that the
books were to be produced. But he added that he
could not see why there should be much fuss
made about such little matter. The entry in the
register read as follows:-
November z Charles Thomson. agod So years; No. SO
Clinton street N in tho country
From this Office the reporter wont to the Morgue.
whore the mans body had been received after
death. Mr.. White. the keeper. promptly opened
his books and showed the entry W hich had been
''made up' from the slip OF paper which Clerk Sui
livan had sent down with the body. But 1t seems
that Mr.. Sullivans second memorandum did not
agree with the 6rst, for 1t read-
country; friends at No. e6 Clinton street. disease
pyasmia, or blood poisoning
The last five words were copied by Mr. White from
the Board of Healths certificate. In the clerks orr
ginal entry he made Thomsens age thirty-ve years.
Mr. White the clerk of the Morguo, says that the
slip of paper sent to him the age was thirty eight and
the deceased was said to have been seventeen years
the hospital register 'This is the kind Of work We
have half of the time here. since Clerk Sullivan came
in" remarked one of the Morgue attendants.
NEVER GOT THE NOTICE.
The messenger who carries notices to friends when
patients die said he had never received o notice
nouncinP the death Of Thomson, was he ever
ordered to carry such message to the widow. at No.
&C Clinton street. When the clerk said he had he
made mistake. The clerk of the Morgue said this
was q fair specimen of the hospital clerks way of
'doing business" He failed to notify women of the
death of their husbands, and when no one turned
up to claim the bodies they were dissected by the
sur w
case. ~
man died on the 9th of December. The body sent
to Hart's Island December a. and was disinterred
from the Potter's Field December 23 and reinterred
man who handled and took charge Of the body after
the surgeons had finished the autopsy declared that
only the usual incisions were made and that there
was no unnecessary mutilation. In regard to the
charge that the widow was not allowed to see the
body Mr.. White said that the Board OF Health spe-
cialy ordered in all cases that bodies on being
moved from the Potter's Field should be put into
tight cases. and that they should not be opened
by any one while they remained in the custody Of
An effort was made by the reporter to find DR..
Flores. who was in attendance on Thomson at the
town on vacation. His assistant said that ut the
autopsy on Thomsens body there were found in
the skull two apop.ectic clots one. an old clot in
the brain substance, undergoing softentng; the
other recent clot on the substance OF the brain.
The gentleman who gave this information also re-
marked that he did not understand why the news
papers should bo 80 much interested IN che case.
Dr. Swift said that Thomson assigned to him
his arrival at the hospital He found the patient
partially unconscious. He could speak little but
not intelligently, and merely mumblcd to himself.
His wife sao he had been losing his mind for some
time, but she did not even hint that he had been
troubled with apoplexy. When the patient lost his
mind he was put In the insane ward Of the hospital
and not sent to the asylum on tn Q Island. Thiss
said OF the officials. was why the wife was
told that she could her husband In 1.-TWO weeks"
by a doctor who supposed that the man was at
Wards Island whore the rule 10 that patients be
seen only once in two weeks. SO in two weeks she
went to her husband, and could not find him,
for meanwhile he had died at Bellevue and was then
awaiting identification ut the Morgue. and she had
not been notified by the hospital clerk OF her hus-
bands death.
"CoME TOMORROW
reporter called at the Department Of Charities and
Correction for some explanation and copy OF the
charges-which were later obtained from the attor-
ney-in the Mutual Life Insurance building, but the
Commissioners were all absent. Mr.. Blake was then
told some Of the statements made by the widow. He
admitted that he knew her; that she had been there
frequently; that he know one OF the brothers
Reidell, and that Commissioner Brennan was then
investigating the matter. "Come in tomorrow" :"
said Mr.. Blake. pleasantly. 'and he'll give you all
the facts better than can"