The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-01-01
Post Burial Inquest.
DAVID BLAKELY's BODY ExHUMED.
New York Morning Advertiser Do. sqth.

New I OTk morning AuNcfllSef Dec. @ylu.
Several life insurance companies have
asked Coroner Tuthill to make thorough,
! investigation as to the cause of the death
of David Blakely, manager of Sousa band
who expired suddenly in his office In Car
negie Music Hall, on November last. The
certificate of death at that time said that
Blakely had died from cerebral apopleXy.
permit for the removal of the body wa
given, and it was taken to Bradford, Vt.
where it was buried.
Recently requests have been made for a
further investigation, with the result
that the body has been disinterred and lG
now on its way to this city for eXamina-
tiOn. 1t is expected that it will arrive
here to-day. 1t will be taken to the rooms
OF \. Eickleberg, undertaker, of No 934
Eighth avenue.
Mrs. David Blakely when seen at her
home, No. % West Eighty-third St, said.
81 have consented that my husbands body
be eXhumed and brought to this city for.
an inquest to set at rest the doubts the
accident insurance companies have eX-
pressed as to the cause of his death. My
husbands life was insured i'll the regultr
life insurance companies and also in sew
eral accident companies, principally in.
the Travellers of Hartford, and the Com
neCticut Mutual.
"Altogether the accident insurance
amounted to $4,000 in case of death, and
100000 i'll case of permanent injury. The
bicycle accident, which ultimately caused
my husbands death, happened in Bradford
late last September His collar bone was
broken. He came to this city Nov. lst
and the accident companies paid him an
indemnity, the suppOsitiOn being that he
was about recovered. But Nov he died.
| do not know exactly when the inquest
will be held, but it will be in few days.
The physicians who attended Mr. Blakely
are positive in their statement that the
bicycle accident caused mis- death"
Bradford, VT, Dec. 2S-The body of
David Blakely, who died i'll New York,
Nov I, and was buried here, was eXhum-
ed day and sent to New York to be eX-
amined by accident insurance companies
who do not admit the claim of the family
that death resulted from an accident. Af-
ter the autopsy the remains will be re-
turned here for reinterment.
New York Morning Advertiser Dec. 81.
Coroner Tuthill was notified LAD
terday afternoon, by Undertaken
berg of No. 934 Eighth avenue,
body of David Blakely, the late
of Sousa's Band, which was dl
at Bradford. Vt, had arrived in
and was at hls undertaking esta II.
Coroner Tuthill placed him
CtrssCeiJ sTJ1IlluinU1T1JTT 7~1In sasS1r
Carroll Low, of No. 100 Broadway, the
deceased, and informed him that. as the
inquest had never been closed, he consid-
cred that the body was under his iurs-
dictiOn as long as it remained in the
county of New York.
Mr.. Low then informed the Coroner
that he had arranged to have the body re-
moved from the undertaker's to the dead
house of the New York Hospital, for the
purpose of having an autopsy per-
formed this morning by DR.. Heman Biggs,
the pathOlOgist of the Board of Health,
and DR.. Pruden, pathologiSt Of the New
York College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Coroner Guthill said he would issue
permit to remove the body ii the under
taker would come to his house. The au-
tOpsy will be made under the supervision
of DR.. O'HanlOn, Coroner TuthilFs ply
sician, at the time and place suggested by
Mr.. Low.
New York Morning Advertiser Dec 3rst
Coroner Tuthill and Deputy Coroner
O'HanlOn held an autopsy yesterday on
the body of David Blakely, late manager
of SOusas Band at the instigation of the
life insurance companies in which he was
insured.
Coroner Tuthill said that the body was
so badly decOmpOsed that it would be at
least six weeks before the cause of death
could be determined.