New-York tribune., 1901-12-06
MISSING NAN nlSSECTED.
son OF BROOKLYN 1NNENIOk Liam"
THAT FATHERS BODY WENI 10
MEDICAL COLLEGE.

| After nearly six months search the oooy Oh
! Robert B. F Walsh, al one time Wen kho" II
| Brooklyn man, was found yesterday ps his soi
| The body had been sent to the dlssectihs looi'i
| of the College of Physicians and surgeons a'
| Columbia University 1t will be sent pa0N ~
! the Bellevue morgue, and then demanGeo ps 'ie
! dead mans relatives .
| On July II a man, who SAID ne was i'
Z Walsh sixty-two years old, was 1ouho'
-z. 70 Tr C,evAr of Roosevelt Hospital.
in the ferry house Of the West Shore nam 'e,''
e West Forty -second-st He was SAID 10 ne
e,4farno from alcoholism and was IN an epiiep-
| tic state The man was taken TO Bellevue Nus
pital and placed in the alcohohc "aiu'
Walsh said he was a widower' snip iie7e'
and lived at No. 81 Hudson ave, brooKlsh
A few davs later Walsh was transferred from
tbe alcoholic ward to 81 medical Ward. ne u'eu
on July II from pneumonia. Inc "ouS "'
taken to the morgue, and earo con i',,,l ;
the death notice was sent addressed 10 Inc
friends of Robert B. f. Walsh, No. ~ HUDSON
ave Brooklvn" No word was received from
the mans friends nor the caro- returned
to the hospital authorities
About this time Robert e. F. Nalsh an III
yentor in comfortable circumstances anu HN :
ing at No 1872 Park-ave.. BROOKLYN olsdp
peared He was employed by the Government
at Montauk Point. For several months MS rel
atiVeS searched all hospitals, molsueS anu ii'S''
tutions for miles around trying to find the man.
but their efforts without avail
Yesterday a son of Walsh called at the
morsue to look at a body of a man picked up
in the Hudson River at One-hundred- and-n1ty-
thfrd-st. He could not identify it as that of his
father and then looked over the morgue rec
ords He discovered the name of Robert b. +.
Walsh and hunted up the property clerk
The effects of the dead man we're SHOW w
the son. and he identified a volunteer nrendh
badge a matchbox and some papers showing
that his father mad filed a patent TOT soIhe
amor plate. Walsh then learned that ms Ia
ther's body had been sent to the Potter Fleln'
but on July 30 had been sent back to the city
and to the dissecting room of the college the
BODY being held for nine days, according 10 law,
1t was learned that the body had not been en-
tirely cut up and that what was left OF IL
could be returned to the morgue. Steps were
taken to have this done Immediately. 1t is
said that this is only one of NUMBER OF
similar that have occurred.
Walsh's life, ii is said, heavily insured
He had two SonS-RObert. who was at the
morgue, and Timothy. who is employed in the
financial bureau Of The World
DR.. Stewart, superintendent of Bellevue Hos
ital. said that the Bellevue authorities were in
way to blame in not informing the relatives
Of the dead man. He said the Roosevelt Hos
pital authorities had the same record as they
had. and they led to believe that Walsh
vas giving his right address and was not con-
CealinE anything when he admitted to the
hospital lie said the hospital authorities had
met all the requirements Commissioner Keller
Stewart and added that If the relatives were
searching for the man they could have got into
the hospital at any time and could have exam
ined any records they might have desired.