The sun., 1896-07-25
npoWyED IN A LILY POND.
,n,r II7T'S HhLF-BROTHER
cIy,T GET ms BODY.

misunderstanding It wnn
Swts In Come ectieut, and the Law FRO
-. Immedinte Disinterment-Wns
hp" n,pt,.t bishops Bencncinries.
,,.ns Bishop, a dentist of 80 West
d. o. ,n,h street, takes children into Connec-
IorB'e'e., .verv week in tho summer and dis
tout ,s.,n among farmers there for few
h1pu'o. IL the country. week ago yester-
dvs - ,hirty.esht small boys to the Nor
DAY rn into Windham county. Most OF
Nicn W., ,ron the Bethany Mission at Third
anon srd Thirty sixth street. A few OF them
Nenuv ,b. pethany Mission at Tenth ave-
-. and TbirtJ-nfth street.
puoe panc the lattor was thirteen-year-old Fred
I~I,, A Of 4es West Thirty-dfth street. He.
,.. ,,,o or three others, went TO stay with
,.r VIZ Perry, near Scotland. fourteen miles
Wn,mantio. Back Of the farmers barn
.r,ol, pond iu which are very many water
i.,'' Ths bows could hardly restrain them
NJ. NJ. from jumping into the pond to get the
80, -" hnt Farmer Perry forbade them. saying
NV. h.tor. they went away he would sec that
49, had all the lilies they could carry.
Wv, ~, sunday morning, however. the temptation
Ia 10 he too strong and young Lift took OF
p,.,h p..,o,hs, and waded into tho pond. He got
~, into I, when suddenly he cried:
"I,v. cot terrible pain in my toe"
A. ho snole he went down under the water.
rs. lad, with him did tho best they could to
-. him hut failed. Farmer Perry recovered
the body.
Tho lad was an orphan, living with his half
,.o,hsr Charles Frank. Frank came down to
,h. N,yor's Office yesterday with Miss Louise
N.rman. his laudlady's daughter. to SEQ what
=. .oor,d do TO find his brothers. body. He said
bsdidpt know where it,was.
rr.nk said that Dr.. Bishop had telegraphed
IN, fact Of the boys death, and that ho had sent
,d m have the body sent to this city for burial.
NJ waited a day or two and no body came. Then
hGWenI s,nsy 70 be m said. Dr. Bishop had taken them
n Connecticut to a cemetery. and, pointing to q
newly made grave eald;
Here's your brothers grave, ana he's just
n, rood there as in any place else.
.We wanted TO have the body taken up said
r,.nk and brought to the city. or at least
identify it but Or. Bishop told us that we must
'efys FrsnE E and Miss Neuman were sent TO Police
Esadouarters and there they were told that
they had better sssn a. NE house Yesterday
,aid that the boy was buried in Wilimantic. as
ke had told Frank. .,,
caused BY q mistake of the operator at the Nor
Sich Central Telephone Exchange. These peo-
Die are blaming me because they do not under
ofnnd the facts. hm not LILO
Ssys while they are in the country, They are
ali Of them placed with responsible farmers,
Who take care OF them. know mono of the
children take up. take SO many children on
Fridays. They are chosen and sent TO the boat
ty Mis-. McKinstry, the visitor OF tho missions.
Mr.. Perry telesraPhed to me on Sunday. l
being in Norwich. | went to tho farm i'm
mediately. and having learned about tho
drowning found that no one knew the child's
last name but one of the boys told me he was
An orphan who lived with his shalf;br3ther.
,.l.r phed IN MCKlnRtrv.
telling her to call up by telephone the Nor
wich Central and get a message. ] can't
telephone myself and ] told the operator
there to tell. Mrs; McKinstry to find
the boys friends and get Instructions whore
to send the body and telegraph them to an un-
dertaker named in Willimantic, The operator
sent all OF the message except that part refer
ring to the undertaken. DR.. White. the Coroner.
had charge Of the body. Not having received
any special Instructions regarding It, he ordered
It buried at the end OF twenty -four hours; Cor
oner White refused TO disinter the body, be-
cause there is State law against doing so until
Sept /. When that time comes they can get
the body"
Frank and Miss Neuman said they were going
20 get the body II they had TO go to law and sue
the Doctor and the Coroner.