New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-04
NEGLECT or DUTY By CORONEES.
urrry CALI, NOT AyswrRED-- DIs>rpE\R-

. ,.,.cv carr Not AySwrRED- -DIS\PPFAR-
,xcr or DEAD wOM\N's PHYSICIAN.
The case Of June a. CHERRY. handsome m"n,'o
c,,l who now lie, dead In the house NO. @oo N''''
Fifteenth st. affords another Illustration OF Inc pccuha'
method, now I'm vogue ~ the cor ncrS ONCE i"'
New York Coroner, Office always "nloyN an ni''
p,o, rur,ation for axity Of management ana general
dihoneSv and corruption but Of late Us inait"nli1n
T., duty IA. been especially pronounced. II l. al
mos, impossible 20 pcrsuad" "a coroner - take III
r,c M ,rtorn statement IN case OF su>p'ctcd
mufd.r The coroner either pleads PRIOR engage
mrnt or Is away from home. Twice WITHIN tl'
last fortnight persons who had bcrn murd'ron'N
assaulted have dcd without making ante motcn state
mont, solely through the neglect Of the coroner TO
r,spond to the call from headquarters. The ponce
and The hospital doctors bitter IN Their c"iphls
According to The facts gathered by Detectives
Tyrrcl and Engclhausen, the Cherry woman came
from Icric " C.. about three weeks ago. ana Dcca'H'
an inmate Of the private hospital kept BY Dr.
Frank 4 IIovt Oh th, first and second floors oi the
house 40 30 West Fncenih-st. Nothing was
known Of Ioyt until last night. bnt II Is clear
that lie received u number ~ patients. odS"d 'hc"
on tho second fiat. the first being usod - III ""''
and that his patients were all women. Ills House
keeper {, Inni.c Raymond. The patients We're At
tended by a colorcd nurse The ease WAS D'pHgh'
10 the notice Of the police Ly mn assistant In MERRITT
undertaking rooms The girl diel early on Tuesday
went away. The und'rtnLcr was In dcubt rs 10 WHAT
De should do.
TN. TWO ward detectives at once went 10 the house,
and there saw the Raymond woman. who told them
mat IN, pirl he'd been treated Is DR.. loyt. and had
pron IN inmate Of III hospital for nearly three weeks
Tn, doctor had toll Ter that IN" was on" OF
fyphcd fever. She had assisted In nursing the
woman until her death Tuesday morning. Late on
rue,dry night DR.. lloyt hal fold her that he would
20 to Mcrrti's undertaking room, AM return IN half
an hour Then he had vanished ard had not sine"
bccn seem With him had disappeared the coored
nurse.
solomon Kaspcr Il mnlatto who sail he 1as II
ccnsin Of the dead woman. and WIS at the place
when the detectives reached there declared that he
had been called the house from his home IN VIZ
glnla bv Telegram from Dr. 1loNf: me lri'srnn
received on Monday nisht had simply said mat MS
cousin was diving. ka,Dcr, reaching THIS dty on
Tuesday morning found that the girl WAS drad, ana
that the doctor had disappeared.
Coroner Shea aud his aSSistan'. Dr. Donhn' are
this wnoit rrspnsil' for Tho dslrlr honfdct hy :,
sixteenth Precinct. and IT, fact for any urgent eau
that he called the Coroncr's onc" Yesterday morn
ing and gave statement - the suspicious clrum tnn"S
surrounding the death. and asked that coroner ngh
b. sent 90 the hons": Th" reply nat ne rrrrlvrl
busy II said. ana wonld not b. able 10 attend TO
the case until this morning.
When the reported last night. the opcrl
tors M rclicc Icadanarcrs arnt ont hurry call
one - Suspicious character. tn" call was timed
M 30 y. m AZ midnight neither the Coroner
nor his assistant had RESPONDED 10 u. without a
rns ncrtrn examination Of the body. II l. impossible
death and tins. through the obstructive agency OF the
Coroner. they are bound and helpless