The evening world., 1895-05-18
WAS LINDNER
POISONED?
Sudden and Mysterious Death
Of q Young Linen Her.
chant In Harlem
no AUTOPSY WAS PERFORMED.
Three boo, ors Unable to Tell What
Allied Him, but Suspect
Morphine
RvseR SAID "BRIeHTs DISEASE"
He Made Such q Death Certificate,
Although the Man Was Pre-.
visusIy In Good Health.
RvsER SAID "BRIeHT's DISEASE"

Coroner HOuDer'B once as q result oi
which tnefs Is doubt as to whether
Francis Joseph Lindner. a young linen
merchant, died from morphine poison
ing or natural causes. Three doctors
who attended him were unable to decide
the cause OF death. but Notwithstanding
this. DR.. John b. Huber Coroner Hoe
ber's young deputy, certified that
Drshts disease was the cause Of DEATH
and declared that no autopsy was neces-
cary.
Lindner died in a boarding house at
~ East One Hundred and Twenty-sev-
enth street. on May 2. He was an Aus
trian, twenty-eight years old. and lived
happily, 1t IL said, with his wife.
Up to six hours before he died he was
strong and healthy. A month before
he had passed q life-insurance examina-
tion and had taken out q 5000 policy.
This II taken as evidence that he did
not have Brigtlt's disease. because life
insurance examiners are always on the
lookout for It. He also had 377OO insur-
ancs IN an Austrian company
On May 2. otter he had gone to his
offios, Mrs. Lindner told her landlady
Mrs. Bailey. that her husband had a
very strange dream the night before.
His mother is dead In the old coun-
try" said Mrs. Lindner. land she ap-
pearsd to him In his dream and told
him he must come to her"
Al . o'clock that afternoon Lindner
returned from business and At o'clock
b was taken suddenly III. DR.. A. M.
away. ~.. w sent e: tOr and recosn.ains sa the
eeriSts condition Of the patient. he sent
for Dr.. Perry schoonmaker. Of los West
ON Hundred and Twenty-sixth street.
The DEBTORS found 1.iudner In stupor.
The pupils OF his eyes were contracted.
The physicians thought Of Bright's dis.
e trA apoplexy but the symptoms
did not exactly Indicate either. They
reaehss no agreement When death came %
The Coroner was notified. and Dr.. Hu-
ssnn eI rsspSnde0 pST sd and made an exsmna
Bf.gbt diselse He did not discuss
IN ct-s witt the physcians or OFFER to
noh ar Autopsy. ~ they thought neces-
Tht body sf Mr. Lndner is in Wood.
- " CeSneteIy, and there seems to be
" p- p,ss 49,, Q: s.ts',ny r,,! I'd The mystery,
symytoHr Q: Erlshcs disease and apo.
.E, yss r.; symLtom' Of some mar
ID. lic. son. DR.. Mclean and myself
40 con"iiting. agreed that from the
eynypto!as the absolute cause Of death
oehesn.asker, 'and therefore I notined
z. Fierson was the first physician
csnsa r. and was at Lndner's bedside
II found him already in a comatose
CCspdit,S r.. said the Dotcor. The pu-
ne.sd and the he first 1e thing hing "tn to susses ses
elss1 to me was that the man had taken
~ SoisSn, perhaps by mistake:
.n.vsHsa S.ssUnsa Mrn,iI MS Lndnsr thsI and she
Iseson In the house and to her knowl.
Ny-. her husband had taken no medi.
cne whatever; She asked earnestly:
800. you think he has taken any
~. wss: .sssd %sy ssn, + S9k. sr,
., = 1asSG :sia; II Il you 70 wiz tell me what kind
ant,Sote: Otherwise l shall not
Tne man was already dying when
vas BY an autopsy. The symptoms O
nH n,iFa ins an, aisesss ssi.d, and sPopIssy were
Deputy Coroner DR.. Huber said to al
"Eyening World, reporter to-day:
TANK the publication about the cas-,
uLcailed for. i issued the death Ger
tincate on the -est!mony OF Mrs. Lind
ner and DR.. SchoonmAker who was pres
ent when ! called.
-" The testimony seemed SO clear to M
that II precluded any necessity for al
autopsy. The contraction OF the pupil
OF the eyes takes place also in som
case. Of Brights disease, and is not al
infalll6le symptom OF poisoning Al
Inquest VIII be held later"
pr. SchoonInaker said to-day that DR.
Huber had already made out the deat
certificate when he arrived at the house
Mrs. l.indner has left the boardin z
house where her husband died, but he
enects are there, and the servan
thought she would be back.
Mrs. Bailey. the landlady. was ais
absent to-day. ana the servant could no
tell when Mrs. L.ndner woud call 70
her pe.ongings.
Unless the Mutual Life Fund Associa
tton. In which Lindner had a 50, 900 pol
ley. takes steps to have the body cx
humed, the real cause of the man
Death will never be known.