The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-24
A CURIOUS CASE.
A White Physician Claimed by Mu-
latto as Her Son.
From az Balfimore Anlerican.


The deathbed of DR.. Lewis c. Thomas,
popular New York physician with large
practice, has been surrounded with veil of
mystery. Although so years of age, his
big. military moustache was coal black, and
invariably waxed at the ends He was
great sport in his way. and at one time
member of the old Nautilus Club. Until
quite recently he took an active interest in
racing, rowing and athletics generally.
DR.. Thomas was a soldier, and at the
time of his death surgeon of Dahl
green Post No 113, G.. A. r.
In addition to all this, he could hold his
own with any man in a political discussion,
For the past seventeen years DR.. Thomas
hos been owner of the big drug store at No.
SOP Grand street, where he graduated as
bow assistant. Since domestic infelicities
separated him from his wife, eleven years
ago. the doctor has lived a solitary life,
occupying small quarters at the back of his
own store His only servant was an aged
mulatto woman, who went daily to 5O2
Grand street to make the doctors bed and
put his room in order
No relative was ever known to visit DR..
Thomas. and when asked by intimate friends
whether he had any, he would speak of
dead father who had been sea captain, and
saw that he himself was the only survivor
Three weeks ago last Thursday DR. Thomas
was suddenly taken i'll in his store. James
McLaren, who has been his assistant for
wears. put him to bed and sent for the doc
tor. The doctor came and found his patient
suffering from a species of BrightS disease.
Young McLaren managed the store during
the day. and went home at night
Three davs afterward the clerk was sur
nrised TO learn that the doctor had been re-
moved to the home of the aged mulatto
woman who claimed him as her son. While
his master was dying in the midst of new
Iy-found colony of brothers and sisters Nc
Taren minded the business at No. 5O2 Grand
street. Last Friday morning, Mrs. Thomas
came to the store with several other Thorn
ases from the West Side. They told Nc
T,aren that his master was dead and that
the store belonged to them.
Dr Thomas was buried at Sleepy Hollow
Lost Saturday by the Thomas family. No
notice of his death or funeral was inserted
by the Gay street people IN any morning
paper. co..1,
hold at its rooms, No. 433 Grand street, to
take action on the death of its late associate
and member. DR.. Lewis C.. Thomas Hon.
n ! Campbell presented consolatory reso-
Iutious which were unanimously adopted,
among which was one to attend the funeral.
How the whitest of white men could have
heen the son of the aged mulatto OF Gay
street was more than Congressman Camp
he'll or his friends had power. to discover.
they offended the heIe been in Se
: ever since.
Conspicuous among the mourners on that
bleak Saturday morning was thickly-
yelled. pale-faced, slender young woman.
An elderly lady accompanied her, and both
seemed to shrink from the strange residents
Of No. 10 Cav street. Silently the young
woman bent over the dead mans face and
kissed it. Then, taking her companion
nr,,, she hurried from the house TO hide her
Grief She was the accomplished and
beautiful Brooklyn lady whom DIR. Thomas
,,,ss 10 have married this spring. To her,
at any rate, his last days and death are IKE
some horrid dream.