The morning times., 1896-10-25

a laugh he enjoyed with White and Jeff
the old-unie policeman stationed at the
mnrEue, and others whom he frightened
on the day Of his resurrection
His experience furnished an idea for jim
my Wallace, Weary WiIle,'' one OF the
corps of deaf handlers attached to the
morgue.
Whisky of late years has become almost
an unknown quantity 10 Jimmy, yet lie
recently managed TO get as much as he could
carry nv initiating Cockran's example.
He went to sleep on the stringpiece one
evening recently, and While in tnat condition
a waS began TO tickle his nose. He made
several passes AT the fly, which, as he sup
posed, was annoying him. and at last
rolled off into tile water. When he was
finally picked out lie was to ali intents
and purposes dead
They carried Jimmy into the niorguo and
worked over him in a! the ways directed
by the hoard of health. Finally l." was
pronounced dead by the doctors Just then
come one suggested a little brandy One
OF Jimmy'S eyes opened Immediately.
| ,No-whisky.S lie family murihured. \
pint was poured into him, then the othe-
| eye opened, and after he had quart, more
| or less, poured down, he began To talk WIFE
| his usual voluhiity.
| Still those are not the most curious cases
| that have come to the notice of Mr. White.
| Frequently persons afflicted with tumors
| or goitre go to the charnel house and beg
| TO he permitted to rub the hand of dead
| person over the afflicted spot. They have
such faith that they, really believe suct
| contact With dead hands will cure them.
Their prayers and plcadings for tine un-
canny privilege are always Of the most
| amusing kind.
| One woman, who is constant visitor,
has Il large swelling in her neck, and every
time sine visits the morgue for the laying
on OF dead hands, she amuses those who see
her by her Munchausen tales, which she
claims are true. of wonderful cures which
have been effected in this way.
Neither White nor his assistants are
done laughing yet over the clever hoax
that was perpetrated on them 4 few days
ago, when supposed Infants body tha'
had been fished out OF the East RIVE
turned out to be nothing more or less than
a rirst-class imitation of the figure OF
body made out of gum drops. The worl
was so well done that the joke was no,
discovered until a deputy coroner. wht
had been summoned to perform an autopsy
stuck his knife in it to begin work.
A popular undertaken, " hose place o.
business is right opposite, " as for year
the official death messenger OF Belle
vue Hospital. and his duties called hin
frequently to the morgue.
In conversation with the writer he said
There is more fun tothe square inch il
the daily routine OF the norgue thai
there is to be found in many Of those con
tinuous- performance theaters. remen
ber one case While 1 was there. when
firm of Teuth avenue undertakers caIle
for the body of a man whose relatives ha
identified him, and who ordered that tn
corpse should be sent to Forty-eight
street and Tenth avenue forget tn
name. However, when the undertake
laid the body out there he was nsarl
mobbed. He had taken away the wron
body, aud the friends nd relatives Of tn
deceased thought he was trying to play
Joke on them by ringing In gray-haire
old derelict instead of the handsom
corpse " hich belonged to them. He cam
back to the morgue with every living rels
tive OF the right dead man riding with hin