The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-11
THOMPSON'S CHASTITY FIND
THOMAS MULVIEILL'S DEAD BODY
FOUND Al HEALY &c BIGELOW'S.

Remains In an Advanced Stage of Deoom-
position-Supposed to Have Been Dead
sition of the Remains-Death Thought to
Have Been Due to Heart Disease.
Shortly after o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon Samuel w. Thompson of room
20, Hoadley building, made a CHASTITY
ing formerly occupied by Healy &
Bigelow at Grand and Railroad ave-
nues. AS he entered the room he was
confronted with an awful stencil as of
decaying animal matter and a few
moments later was completely Mortified
to stumble across the dead body of a
man In an advanced stage of decom-
position.
When Thompson had recovered from
the shock of his discovery he notified
the police of the Grand avenue station
and an investigation was Immediately
set on foot. Deputy Medical Examiner
Gustavus Eliot was notified and
viewed the remains and gave as his
opinion that the mans death was due
to heart disease.
The police after considerable investi-
cation discovered that the dead man
| was Thomas Mulvihill seventy years
old, who, until recently, worked for the
Connecticut Concrete company and
boarded at William Dwyer's boarding
| house on State street, near Court. In
his pocket was fousd a diary showing
that he had boarded with Dwyer since
October 20 of last year and that he had
| relatives living in Thompsonville, N. Y.
| How Mulvihill came to be in the
| building is mystery, as the place
has been vacant for over month, but
it is the opinion of the police that while
under the influence of liquor he man
| aged to get into the building to sleep
off the effects and was stricken with
heart disease. 1t is also a matter of
| conjecture as to how long the body had
| lain in the building, but from its ap-
pearance when found 1t had evidently
| been there week o. longer.
| In support of this theory it is stated
! that about week ago a gentleman
| from Ansonia looked through the build
4 ing with view to renting and in
| reply to a question as to whether there
/ was any one in the building at the
time of his visit, said that there was
| a man whom he took for the watch
man lying asleep on the floor and as
he appeared to be so comfortable, he
had not disturbed his slumbers. This
the police are confident was the body
| of the man who was wfound yester-
day and it Is believed that he was
dead at the time of the Ansonia mans
visit.
After Deputy Medical Examiner Ell
lot had viewed the remains he ordered
their removal to Lewis & Maycock' S
morgue and the latter's wagon was
brought to the scene to remove the
body. Before it's arrival, however
Patrick Owens, who resides on Grand
| avenue, near jefferson street, and who
claimed to be acquainted with Mulvi-
hill, refused to allow Lewis & Maycock
to take the remains and said that they
should be taken charge of by Thomas
Dunn, the Grand avenue undertaken.
This was the state of affairs when
/
the scene When they We're informed
of the facts they drove back to the
city, leaving the body in the building
Later Thomas Dunn was notified, bu
he refused to have anything to do with
the body and Lewis & Maycock were
again summoned At first they re
fused to have anything more to do witt
the case, in view of what had occurred
but finally one of Blair's wagons wa:
brought to the scene and the body re
moved to Lewis & Maycock's morgut
about $50 o'clock, after a delay of ovel
four hours.
The police do not entertain any the
ory of foul play, but are unable to ac
count for the manner in which Mul
vihll secured an entrance into thu
building.