New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-22
ALFRED GOLSHS DEATH.
SEEKING TO EXHUME HIS BODY.
A CHARGE THAT HIS DEATH WAS sUsPICIoUs-VARi-
Gus COMPLICATIONS.

| A CHAhOE liiAl MS Dfhlh WAC oN~i
! Gus COMPLICATIONS.
Gustay Kobbe a lawyer, of No. 102 Broadway,
called on Dr. Nagle at the Health Office, yesterday
! and asked for permit to e1hume the BODY OF Al
! fred Golsh, who died suddenly on October Is, ana
| who was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery two days
afterward He said that he made the request III Oe-
half of the Connecticut Life INSURANCE Company OF
| Hartford which had issued three policies on Gosh
life each of which was for 81 900 two of them be-
ing in favor of Mrs. Philippine GOlsh and the remain
! ing one payable to Miss Minnie Romano OF No. %
! Sxth-ave. The application for the permit MT.
Kobbe added, was founded on suspicion on tSe
part of the company that GOlsh had been poisoned,
and that he desired to have medical examlnatlon
of the body before the policies were paid. me iaW
yer also urged that the COroners inquest In GOsh
! Death had been insufficient in every par
tcga no ce @qSpy Of death iSsn assigning
valyular disease of the heart as the cause OF uean
upon mere hearsay. DR.. Nagle informed the lawyer
that he would be Obliged to present ms case TO Tns
outside of the Jurisdiction of the Board of Health OF
this city. Mr.. Kobbe passed the remainder OF the
McKeon, and will submit il to him to-day.
Mr. GOlsb was the chief-clerk in one OF the de-
7artments of the drug house Of Mckesson ROO,
bins in FutOn-st He was man OF quiet life ana
without anything to annoy him other than some
domestic troubles, tho sharper pain OF Whlcl lie
had long since forgotten. number of years ago
he married daughter of ex.Assemblyman Radde,
and a sister of l.. L. g. Radde, of No. 327 East
FOurteenth-st. He became the father OF two chllcc
dren. About six years ago he was III the haoi! .!
met Miss Romaine, who at that time was lNing
with her husband. The felicity of her married lie
maed BY t5 me q hGcso wSn St
acquainted with GOlsh, and he. leaving MS FANNY
went to live with Miss Romano, who had aOah-
In the latter part of January 1888, Golsh OBJ
tanned the policies in question, after an eAanlllia-
ton by Dr. John b. Isham, OF No. 900 LeNlhelon-
ave-, the insurance cOmpanys physician. lie was
pronounced healthy by the doctor. On October ~
the company received letter from William Is.
Iullls lawyer retaned 10y MISS n%ser Hns
sent to it, and on October y the lawyer again
called the COmpanys attention to his client claims
The case remained without any action on either
side until Yesterday when an article appeared IN
The San stating that the company had obtained a
statement from Deputy Coroner MESSENGER, OF TINS
city, that the presence of bottles on the shelf OF the
room in which GOlsh died led him TO suspect that
the cause of his death might be due to poison ana
that he so reported to Coroner MeIkIe ana urged
that an autopsy should be held Objection was
made by Miss Romaine and the dead mans relatives,
and the Coroner decided to dispense with an
autopsy. DR.. MessemeI yesterday uesdayl re-
peated this statement TO Lawyer kobbc when the
latter called on him.
The case was additionally complicated yesterday
afternoon by L. +. G. Radde calling on General
John A. Foster and retaining him to prosecute me
Sun for libel Coroner MeTkle denied in the most
emphatic language that DR.; MESSENGER had eyer
called his attention to GOlshs case in any other
wav than as a death from heart disease and cXhib-
tied DR.. MESSENGERS affidavit il the inquest III
which the Deputy-COroner swore that GoiSh dled
from exhaustion and valvular disease Of the
heart. Mr. Radde and Miss Romano said that
they had not objected to the holding of an autopsy
and would have acquiesccd to II without munnur
had the Coroner thought such an action necessary.
Mr. Tulis explained that he did not intend 70 OPP
pose any application made by the insurance CON-
pany to any OF the authorities for permit TO
hume the body for examination, because he was
satisfied that the result would be in favor only of
the pocy-hOlders. He intended TO obtain the
claims of his clients at all events.
Should the District-Attorncy grant the permit for
the exhumng Of Golsh's body, the investigation o.
charges made by the insurance company will be IN
the charge Of that Office.