New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-03
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
WANDERING ABOUT WITH THE SMALLPOX.
A MAN AFFECTED WITH THE DISEASE GoRs IN

WANDERING ABOUT WITH THE sSis
A NAN .vrrcTnp WITH THE DISEASE GoRs IN
STREET CAR TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS.
.trauger whose face was flushed ana
covered with blotohes walked in'o ..ni,no
h,sadqaa,fhs s biine for half an hour sat for
n time ia the office of the chief clerk OF the hSa,u
Department at the hottest SIDE OF the ou,, on,iv
Eav,ng rested he was encountered subaerneot!
now I'M One and then IN another part OF i've u3,'1'.
brushing against scores o. people on his t,Veis -.
bad made the circuit of nearly all the ocss VII
ont ST atug his business when on accdehtai inlut3
brought out the fact that he had the snai, poH INV
was locking for so.he one to tell nun Wntt W o.
This caused much excitement in the pi;liatng
necialIy i'm group OF police captains through wmcn
the sick man had pushed his way ~ tne course %
his STROLL The health tcer INTO wn s tns sSnn e
ton, of The disease. and had him conveyed 10 Tue
Riverside Hospital. He gave his names as WiIiian'
H. Bowers and his home as at No IL? tnt
IT, and informed the Sanitary superintendent .pa a..
he had iaen directed to the oiiice Oh tile Dull, VI
Health by the pysicians at tue CEainDers iD'ieeS
.,nm. mn To Maberry-st. in horse car with other
Passengers who not aware OF tue nature on MS
disease. The health officers COMPLAIN tnat ' havs
been sent through the city from the Chdiupeis o,o
HOsptai in this manner with the cnance OF conti IL
n,catipg the contagion to hundred peop'o vi '"o
At the Chambers Street Hospital the physician IN
charge said that tie man was nos SuietipS i,u a,
sm,,Inox m its contagious state. and tDat ne Was
directed 10 Apply ID the Health Board because tey
ia noint.Iv no facilities for receiving and lsciat-
ing patents suffering from CONTAGIOUS u'scssss anJ
,uan looked intelligent ami was well diesseu anu
rhsv srnnosed he would apply at the proper Mace
insiead of wandering aimlessly through the Da'iu'
ing o,,t;rned tho nbvsciao make it
n rule To send immediately for the wagon WHICH IS
provided III such cases by the health authorities'
hs Health Board has never, so far as know, COM
planned Of any neglect on our part 10 use heeeS'iS
pYecaution in cases OF TINS Rlho.
NOVEL AND CHASTITY METHOD OF SUICIDE
The dead aud partially burned body OF Philip
dav in the opening to the furnace in greenhouse
i'm Elatbush, j.. T. Truschel was about eighteeh
wears of age. and was the nephew OF LOUIS oCnmulZ
the prOpristor of extensive greenhouses III ,.laik-
s0n.aye Flatbush, near the Kings County Build
ings Young lruschel came to tins country H4m
Germany about IL year ago. ana began wofk icr nIs
npcle His friends say that his disposition was re,
firing and that in states of despOndency he nah
threatened to take his life, but no one thought nm
in earnest Some of his acqnantances say tat n1
complaned of having to Work too hard, Deing kept
mn Mt night to watch the furnaces III the green.
house, and that he udulged in drinking. Anou' ~
o'clock tuesday evening he was last seen awe ny
Alfred Derpesy q workman in tho greenhouse VINO
had been reading aud fell asleep IN his char Wnen
he awOke, Just before midnight, lie looked at the
furnace II 1t was burning, ana was hoirneu
TO fi0d Truscheis body projecting from the opening
under the crate. The head. neck ana one arm were
horribly burned in tie strong fire, and the man had
been dead some t!ire ana presence SeSaTotsiy
crowded himself into the furnace as Iat AS possDe
On the back OF business card, LETT In the once tne
deceased man Lad written the following III Oer-
man: , ,,., 700,
t., INN initiate me- PHILIP TRUsCHEL
Coroner Keller and a jury held an inquest yester-
day, aud a verdict of suicide while laboring under
alteration of mind was rendered Truschel had SAID
that if he had revolver he wOuld shoot himself.
He had suffered no disappointment in love SO far as
is known.