The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-13
Dies AFTER
TYING KNOT.
Rev. Mr.. Wall Expires After
Performing Marriage Ceremony
UNITED COUPLE IN HOSPITAL.
II Was the First Wedding al Which He Had
0fiIclaisd IL naaaaJ fears Fall
10 Floor Gead.
UNITED COUPLE IN HOSPITAL.

New York. Jan. 13-As chaplain Of HE
Presbyterian hospital IT became the duty
OF the Rev Thomas 6 WAN Yesterday 10
stand az the bedside oi one of the pa
tienls ia e private room and say the
words which made him tho husband ot
the woman he loved, ana whom ne feared
he might lose because death was staring
him in tho face Two hours afterNard
the 'clel gyman fell 10 tho floor as he was
walking through one OF the wards when
those who ran 90 his aid stopped to me
him the, found he was dead.
II was ten Days ago that william Bell
Baldwin was taken TO the ustitIton
from his home in so. 10 Wo~r lgeth
street \ maker and Inventor of type
writer's, and about thirty-seveu years old
he WAS suffering from blood p0isonipg
which had come as q result OF serious
attack OF erysipc1s
ON the day 90 his arrival, and every
day thereafter. hc was visited bv d pretty
woman of the brunette type. who sat b.
lhs bedside cheering him for hours. She
was Miss Bertha Wilson Sauborn ihe
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Thomas T..
Sanborn OF NNack
BETHRoThGD FOR A YEAR.
As q was learned soon they had been
betrothcd FOR a year. and they were 10
have been married early Xt month. She
had been preparing her trousseau when
Mr.. BALDWIN became ill. aud his removal
of love
4 few DAYS ago She was alarmed. as
was the patients mother. when one OF
the physicians told her that an operation
WAS imperative. aud that SO dangerous
Mas ~ lhai MI Baldwin might not sur
Nivc There WAS no cndeaVor 10 keep
fhtS bad news frdM the sick man. Tie az
.rce acgniesced. but he told the surgeons
De would have one request 10 maze be-
fore he was placed on the operating
tabls.
When next Miss sanborn called ON him
they talked long and earnestly u was
then he told h that he one wish of his
llfc WAS that she might bear his name
should death take him from her. lIe was
40 more anxious thau She n was AN
arranged and the Rev Or Wall was
asked 10 perform the Ger mpny. the time
icing set for o'clock yesterday after
noon.
Miss Sauboru went To The residence OF
MIR ifadwins mother yesterday and wifh
her they " re driven 10 the hospital An
was ready FOR the ceremony. ln hts room
Mr.. Baldwin Ncry weak WAS prOpued up
against pillows, beside him stood a doe
Tor and "a l3lfsr, ready iu observe the
ihrln That no wedding should not pros
rted There. toe. was the old chaplain.
ihe Rev Mr. Wall
.l}ut The ceremony WAS not too much for
the patient, and after ne and his wife had
barn congratulated. the guests Il parted
b,lt his bride sat beside him. helping him
10 forget The weary hours
II the wedding had not excited the sick
man. however IL had its feet on his
chaplain. SeNenty-nine years old. he had
suffered from heart disease for months,
and was very feeble llc was much elatcd
oyFr the wedding. the first in years at
which he- had officiats a
Smiling he was stroling through one
of the wards two hours later when he
fell headiOpg 10 the floor Willing hands
we're stretched out to raise him a glance
an his face told the men OF experience
he WIS dead. His body was placed In
one OF the rooms ana word was sent 10
his home. at No. ili2 Madison avenue
COUPLE Npv INFORMED.
But not word of 81 was whispered 10
the husband and bride I'm their little room
on another floor. ana IL was O'Clock in
the evening before Mas Baldwin LETT the
hospital. begging the physicians 10 be
more than usually soiciious about her
husband. He Was resting easily last
night He did not know the man who
had married him had passed away.
connected with the Presbyterian hospital
for a long time he was It's superintendent
lie was born In PictOu. Nova Scotia, and
came here when hoy. Iie was grauu-
ated from Princeton and from It's theo-
ne was one OF the first settlers IN
Englewood, y j.. where he conducted q
girls, school HIS brother is the Rev.
Or Edward Wall. Of South Orange. who
IS professor IA Stevens institute, i'm Hoe
boken lie leaves a widow and -four chill
dren hy his first wife TO him Is given
the credit of establishing the first ambu-
lance service maintained by thc Presby-
terian hospital