The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-23
MYSTERY FOR 4. NIGHT.
Much Ado About the Needless
state ment OF q Guest or the SIetropoIe.


state ment OF q Guest or the Metropolis.
There was a great deal of excitement in the
Tenderloin station house early yesterday morh-
ing for very small cause. Capt. Chapman was
in secret conference with Commissioner Parker.
when Coroner Tuthill came in. A few moments
later Detectives Walsh and Caddell came in.
loaded to the brim with mystery and Juggling
, with them a pale-faced young man who seemed
frightened half to death. The door of the Cap
tain's room was shut on the party and for half
an hour there was nothing heard from within.
Then the door opened again and all hands came
! out. the man who had been with the detectives
looking very much relieved.
No one would talk about what was going on.
They seemed to have entered into an agreement
not to say anything. and one by one they disap-.
peared into the night. The Tenderloin reporters
were much perpleXed melawhile. They scented
a great mystery. but there seemed to be no way
of solving it. Capt. Chapman wouldn't talk,
Commissioner Parker said he didn't know any
thing and was only in the station house by acci-
dent. Coroner Tuthill was naughty and said no
had nothing for the public, while the detectives
said they had been sent out to fetch in a guy"
and didn't know anything about what he was
wanted for. The 'guy" had gone away in tho
meanwhile and was making his way back to
home and bed as fast as his. legs and an elevated
train would carry him.
Tho mystery lasted until yesterday afternoon,
and then it exploded. The young man who was
brought in by the detectives is DR.. l.. Sylvester
Sobel of l46I Lexington avenue, and it was be-
cause he was suspected of having performed an
illegal operation that he was 70 the
sanctum OF Capt. Chapman. Coroner Tuthill
had in the interim discovered that pr, Sobel was
away SO silently after the Conference. 'pp
INT 1T seems th nat : yo nnE Woman !, , known Hdta as Made lad
mole fpr sp ynrnl wRpEl For fhR mat fng Haya
she has been i'll and DIR. Sobel attended her. On
Friday night she had a bad turn, and becoming
alarmed she sent for "A doctor. The doctor,
whose name is not known, not being familiar
with the case. jumped at the conclusion that an
what he could to relieve the woman and then
notified the police Of the case. adding the infor-
woman. Meanwhile somebody else, presume
ply a nurse. had sent In q call for an ambp-
The surgeon was allowed to see the woman. and
he declared after an examination that no opera
go to the hospital then. so the ambulance went
away.
and sent him to the Metropole to take the sup
posed dying woman's ante-mortem statement
A. the same time they sent the detectives after
statement and discovered that there had been
no operation. He went TO tho West Thirtieth
street station right away. and his statements In
blame.
The queer part of the whole thing is that the
woman was at no time in any danger. She had
simply had a bad turn in an old ailment, and not
having time TO send for her own doctor, sent for
any that could he found. 1t was Coroner Tnthill
who made the mystery last as long as 1t did. In
stead Of giving out the facts Yesterday morning,
he declined TO talk to reporters further than TO
state that he had taken an state
mcnt al the Hotel Metropolc. 1t wasn't his bus
mess TO give family secrets out to the public, he
added.
Yesterday afternoon the Payne woman, whose
age is given ~ II years. and who is said to DO
unmarried. was removed to tho New York Hos
pital. II was said there that she Is no danger.
Very little IL known about her, and at the Hotel
MctrOpolc they decline to talk about the case al
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