New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-23
THE SUPPOSED CORPSE RE'I'hD'
COCHRAN WAS TAKEN TO THE Mo''"' L.
BIT PERSISTED N LINlNd-hh SAf'
HE WAS THROWN ~ THE RINHH.

T, the opinion Of Captain Hopkins Supe''n'''''''
White of the Morgue. and his two assls'a"'s' '"''
~, (,,.hrao was a corpse. and II Cochran himself
had been askcl about II he would not nav" ''
Il AT 2 O'Clock yesterday aNernOon'
The tug Driscoll ". cox was pufhng up '"' '''N'
p,,- ohout an hour after noon yesterday wheh
C,,,a,n Hopkins saw the body Of man hoa'ms
tlly with the tide. The captain looked akh'" anu
stopped the tug. His crew soon h'l u" 'oI'
oh1,rI Limp and motionless. 1t lay "here IL was
placed. ., .o,,.d tho
. ,- ,b. rIer AT Bellevue Hospital At the per
,he cantain sent for Mr.. white. the superintendent,
- ,hn Morgue The superintendent came ana
.Io,cod q, the body. Hes dead SAID ne.
poItcon,n MorreH next took n look I''au'
..,-o,,. he soid Next came TWO OF the Morgue at
,odapts with a stretchcr. They. too. looked care
ioeslv at the body Hes DID,. said they Win one
voice Cochran made no denial The men WIN
the stretcher bore him to the deadho"se ana '"i'
him on the floor Then superintcndent, whit, While
.,. n,iI 81 a. 70 inter him In "A book. Unknown hoater
said sahi'hi he. making the entry: Height,
Five feet seven" said Policeman Morre"
Morreu bent over the body. the better to make an
estmae when, %hea ecoed ecGTI half way across
The son Of guns alive, he gasped Cochran aa
but couldn't help that wink for 'he iie u "'' "'
couldn't ...,,.,i When ne saws
mpe IL dead it usually settles the matter lie re-
fected TOO. that Captain HopkinS, tenaants mad
Ill "a ]
ali certified that Cochran was dead lhereioIe ne ne
must be dead The Superintendent Deht ohri - .no
hodv himself when, Notwithstanding the eViuen.e ,
a0ainst him Cochran winked again inns Wa niVo' G
'11hecoming leyty on the part Of corpse ouPeiin
,cndeni White was naturally scdndalZed put ~ sn'
Tor the doctors, two OF whom arrlVeu pos 80,
The,, admitted that Cochran ought to he leah puti
hejess they set 10 work him ana soon haa
Rim breathing naturally The same stIetcner 'ndt s
hrought Cochran to the deadhouse bore MIN % uIe
boypitai and late last night The doctors said ha' ne
Paners found in his clothing showed that cochfmsn m
rvoe NJ No 2i6 West Forty yseven hist ana that ne
Mad formerly been employed by the Playets III
cramercy Park. The police think that ne a. a.
eve r. He thinks that II that were the case Coch-
rar H. oa'tnnhants at the Morgue including Police
r,,n Vorrell think that Cochran was dead bit
ddn., know H. Anyway, 1t was an exctlng aiteI-
nnp af The Morgue II Is not every day that they
have a real live corpse there 1, l.,
Coroner Tuth took "A statement from Cocnran, ~, ,n
htnh Tho latter alleges that he was thrown INTO Ihc
Wiz, n,r Acting on the Coroner's orders, Lhe ponce
Wntca,.o1 AIRED Never Of No 2i6 West Forty-seV-
Int they say they do not know whether ne
en- incnIicated or not. Meyer says that cochran
hoarded with him. but that he mad not seen MIN
since last Wednesday: - ,.,s., - - 100, os,o,o
l. Cochran. OF No. 81 flfth-aVe. real estntg hs
- vbo is a brother Of Samuel Cochran. called
u, ne ,Ioreue at II O'Clock last night lie SAID ne
ga NOT seen his brother since January, ls.1. Iney
nuarreled at that time. owing 10 SaInueIS naplts
WW"ver was taken to the hospita. al lO:50 O'Clock
w., ',,ro detectives and was identihed by Samuel
cochran rs his assaant - 49,, ,,h,o >,
= midnight Cochran, VINO was theh uhapIc 70
81, ,rrotc on a tablet IN answer 10 a question OF
hds brother. that Meyer really did not strike him