The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-25
THE DEATH OF MISS BISHOP
WHAT THE AUTOPSY IN THE CASE
DISCLOSED.

Certificate of Burial Granted But May be
Revised = Congestion of Lungs the
Secondary Cause-No Evidence of Pois-
oning-Friends Think the Young Wom-
ans Ambition Was Greater Than Her
Strength, Which She Had Greatly Over
taxed.
An autopsy was performed yesterday
afternoon by Medical Examiner White
upon the body of Sarah Olive Bishop,
the young woman who died at 31S
Orange street Saturday evening in the
office of DR.. Clarence E. Skinner. The
post mortem was made in the presence
OF DR.. Gilbert, Daggett, DeForest and
Skinner, and occupied about three
hours.
Nothing was shown by the exam
ination that would indicate that the
unfortunate girl was the victim of foul
play at the hands Of another or that
she had elf-administered any drug to
cause her death.
The lungs were found to be In an
exceedingly congested condition, enough
to cause fatality. The kidneys were
found in q diseased condition, and the
liver was of that peculiar condition
known to the profession as nutmeg"
The medical examiner granted GER
tiflcate for the burial of the body in ac-
cordance with the facts revealed by the
autopsy. But he will continue the eX-
animation, which may cause revision
of the certificate.
Both the medical examiner and DR.. S.
D. Gilbert, who was called to see Miss
Bishop verv soon after she was taken
i'll on Friday, were emphatic in their
statements that no criminality could be
attached to anyone.
The case was a peculiar one, said DR..
White. He had. he added, never had
anything to do with a similar one.
Dr. Gilbert said last evening that he
had very little to say concerning the
case. He was called about 2:30 o'clock
Friday afternoon to see the patient, but
did not arrive there until near o'clock.
He found Miss Bishop in a comatose
condition with respiration of two per
minute, with pupils widely dilated.
These were not symptoms of poison
ing drugs now known to the medical
profession. ea
Dr. Gilbert say Miss Bishop several
times between Friday afternoon and
the time of her death, and the symp-
toms remained as he found them when
he first visited her.
When asked the cause of the coma
tose condition of the patient DR.. Gilbert
said that if he could answer that ques-
tion the mystery would be solved.
He had never seen case like Miss
Bishops in an experience of twenty
three years. and he was free to admit
that it's features were puzzling.
Miss Sarah Olive Bishop was the
daughter OF Joseph K Bishop of Is
Warren Place and had been employed
in the office of DR.. Clarence e. Skinner
at 31S Orange street for two years. She
kept the office books and the Office in
order and answered calls, taking her
meals at her home. On Friday she
had gone home as usual and had re-
turned to the doctors office, where she
~ l.
o'clock, DR.. Skinner, who was in the
office at the time, noticed that Miss
Bishop had been overcome with
drowsiness. She said that she was
not feeling we'll and lay down on the
couch. The doctor. who was writing
at the table. paid very little attention
to the young woman until she aroused
herself about fifteen minutes later. She
made some remark to the doctor.
She soon dropped off into another
sleep, and it was her heavy breathing
that attracted the attention of DIR.
Skinner, who then tried to arouse her,
but without success. He called Dr. S.
D. Gilbert, who lives near by, and also
sent for DR.. Daggett, seeing the pre-
cariouscondition of the young woman.
Both physicians arrived about the same
time. Several consultations were held
in which DR.. DeForest was called.
Miss Bishop did not regain conscious
ness and death came at 10:40 o'clock
Saturday evening.
Mr.. Bishop said last night that he had
no reason to think that his daughter
had taken her life, but thought that
death had been caused by overwork.
She not only assisted at her home, but
also did a great deal of work for her
brother William. who is a bookkeeper
at David H. Clark's office on Brewery
street. The parents of the deceased
were with her IN her last hours.
Miss Bishop was an enthusiastic
wheelwoman, having, it is said, ridden
to Pine Orchard last Sunday, returning
on Monday.
The autopsy held yesterday was not
ordered by the coroner, as there We're no
suspicious circumstances apparent, but
was readily acceded to at the sugges-
tion of the physicians in the case by
the parents of the young woman.
The remains were given in charge of
her parents last evening and will be
buried from the Memorial chapel Fair
Haven cemetery, this afternoon at
o'clock.
Will be Buried Here.