New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-29
FOUND HELPLESS IN THE STREET.
\ oNCE-PRoMINENT BUSINESS MAN OF ATLANTA
GA, DIES IL BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.

oYCE-PRoMINENT BUSINESS MAN OF ATLANTA
GA, DIES IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
on the evening before Thanksgiving Day pohce'
man who was patrolling his beat In Pearl 81 found
man lying IN tie sidewalk in front Of No. 49, ap-
parcntly In a drunken stupor. He took hold OF his
shoulder ana shook him. and the man, who was still
supposed 70 be under the influence OF liquor or
drug. cried ont IN pain. The officer Ti,d 10 get him
10 stand mp, but the man could not do 50, and h.
complained Of his thigh. The officer called an am
bulancc and had the taken 10 the Chambers
Street Hospital. There Il was found that his thigh
broken, and thai Ie was In an exceedingly poor
state Of health. The surgeons at the hospital did
what they could for him there and he Transferred
to the New-lorL and aftcrward to Bellevue
Hospital Papers I'm the mans pockets
showed that lie Benjamin. BrlScOe. OF Atlanta,
Ga. His clothing had the appearance Of once
belonging 10 OF wealth ana refinement. but 1t
was old and worn. On the day after he taken 10
Bellevue Hospital Brlscoc died When Br-coe en-
tered the Bcllryn, Hospital he named rs his friends
\. H. Moore, OF 40. - Jcncrson-st. Brooklyn. and
Alexander c. Brlscoc OF No. 3li Westinghouse. At
lana. The Last named was his brother. who Is the
secretary of the Georgia Iallrud Commission. Brs-
complained bitterly TO the attendants at the Belle
Hospital OF the treatment that he had received
I'm the New York Hospital 10 which lie had been
temporarily transferred after he taken b. Cham
hcrs street Hospital. where hs thigh first dressed.
lie said mat nothing was done 10 hin all the ullc
that he was in the New York Hospital 10 relieve his
suncrlngs. Immediately after he died kilograms
were sent 10 both Mr.. Moore, in BROOKLYN. and 10
his brother In Atlanta for instruction 10 what
should be done with the body. The owners Of the
New Amsterdam Hotel, in Foarhaye.. where he said
that he had made hs home. also were communicated
with. They sent NJ T.. Daly. an undertaken. Of No.
434 East Twenty ,iXthst. 10 take charge Of the body,
and II was shipped that night 10 his former home
in Georgia aud buried In the family plot In the
cemetery there ON last saturday. On the books of
the Bellevue Hospital. frisco j., recorded suffering
from broken tai 81 and dclrium trcmcn,.
At onc Tine Benjamin Brl,cor WIS onr Of the lead
Ing men Of Atlanta. tie member u the firm
Of West Edwards q co.. and also Of the drJsOods
firm Of Chambrrlin. Eoyutou 4 60. West. Edwards
& Co. failed several years and In consequence ~
malncd Tor some time Before the faiur- krscoe
was Il leading man In society. lie spent money
lavishly, owned fast horses and Hv'd luxurious
nfr After his release from prison he found that his
former friend, BIS friends longer. and be- came
10 This city, Where he lid himself away from all Of
those who formerly knew him. II Is said that BE-
drank drown hi, di grace and the physicians who
attended him a, tle hospitals say that his death was
due Il, much 10 his emaoat,d condition 10 the In
jury That hr bad received.
The police do not know how be injured himself but
a his appearrnc- not such attfuCt thieves.
II + thought that he fen ana struck his thigh against
the culblug. " h. found b. lying near
u -tlpp aud the oiDccr who disccy cred him thinks
that h.. must dragged him Ell 10 II expecting
10 BE- able 10 phil himself MP.