The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-20

a coroncr's inquest, and the funeral will
take place on Monday next and in Grace
Church and nowhere else. was married
in Grace Church and my poor boy was
baptized there. Washington Irving, OF
Sunnyside, was his godfather and held
him IN his arms when he was baptized"
Mr. Brigham Bishop, Mrs. Bishops
nephew, plead with her to change this de-
termination, but he plead in vain. Even
when he said he would not attend the ia.
neral il it were postponed until Monday it
produced no ciloct
Mrs, Bishop could see nothing in the
proposition except q scheme Of the doc
tors, and would listen to no proposition
which came from them or anybody near
them. She even feared that an effort
would be made TO remove the body from
the undertakers, at No. s Sixth avenue,
where il now is, and she even wrote TO
Police Captain Brogon, telling him her
fears and asking protection. Pretty Ida
Orme, the singer, who was schoolma,c
and friend from childhood Of Bishop, vol
unleered TO 20 to the undertakor's aud sit
up with the body all last night, and Miss
Helena A. Milliman also volunteered and
went with Miss Orme.
WATCHING THE BopY ALL NIGHT.
They will not tako tho body away
when | am there" said Miss Orme rcso-
luiely, and she looked as though she
meant II.
Dr. Irwin is good deal disturbed over
the notoriety he has got in the case.
81 don't know how much, il any, OF my
practice will have left when this is over"
he said last night. 81 have been called u
murderer aud what not until whom an
acquaintance happens to pass me without
speaking, feel ~ though he was trying
TO cut me on account OF my crimes, My
entire time, since that night when Bishop
died, has been taken up with this affair,
aud hayo had TO got other physicians 10
visit my patients.
THAT Bishop was dead there IA no more
doubt than | am sitting hero. There was
every active indication OF death-the jaw
dropped, the body became cold, the eye
was glazed and fell in, there was rlgUr
morris, and to make away with all doubt
not drop Of blood flowed under the knife.
That is an iniallible test. The head was
the last part operated upon.
'rho point which the Herald makes on
me as TO the Penal Code is a strong one,
and | may be called upon TO defend my
self. My defense is that | had heard
bishop during the ten years ! have known
him repeatedly speak Of an autopsy as
being the only thing which might reveal
the nature OF his strange gifts, and ! al
ways supposed ho wanted an autopsy
made. Tho reason II was done 20 soon was
because delay would have made il useless,
as the brain at once changes after death.
A STORMY INTERVIEW.
DIR. Irwin called TO see Mrs. Bishop yes.
tcrday forenoon, and she denounced him
as the murderer of her son as vigorously Y To
his face as she had when lac was not
present Tho interview was an unpleasant
one, aud when the Doctor left lac declined
to take Mrs. Bishops hand. which she ox.
tended TO him. lie said ho only called
because lac had seen In the papers the
statement that lac feared to face the dead
mans mother.
When the undertaken came ut o'clocl,
ivthe afternoon lac tried to induce Mrs.
Bishop TO have the funeral this afternoon.
She would not yield. When he asked
her for tho text for the collin plate sho
wrote.