New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-24
G.. GRISU-OLD KILLED.
Escapes from Temporary Sanat0r7"m
TRAIN Runs OUer HIM.
SUFFERING FROM ovERsTUDY.

Although watched by two male nurses George
Griswold. ID. the of John N. A. Griswold'
a retired business man. of this city and New
port, R. l., escaped from temporary sana-
torium at No. 519 Pelham Road, The Bronx, at
q a. m yesterday.
Shortly afterward, while the nurses were
searching Pelham Manor for their missing pa
tient, his body seen by passing locomotive
engineer northbound train on the Harlem
branch of the New-York, New-Haven and Hart
ford Railroad. 1t was lying near the south
bound track, near Prospect Hill. the head
being crushed and completely severed from the
body.
The engineer reported finding the body to
Albert Tracy, baggage master of the railroad at
Bronxville. He informed the Westchester po-
lice.
Shortly after o'clock the nurses, who had
been looking for their patient in the woods,
heard that a man had been killed the rail-
road and hurried to the Westchester police sta
ton. They said they were Arthur A. Waters
and James Anderson They Immediately made
an Identification of the body. but becoming
reticent, told the police that 1t was the body
of G. G. Martin, who. they said. mad been
patient in a private sanatorium at NO. oI9 Eel
ham Road. and had escaped.
AS there nothing on the body TO suggest
its identity, the police entered the man as Mar
also accepted the Identification.
According to the statements made by the
nurses to me-" said the coroner, the man mad
been a patient, suffering from mental trouble at
a private institution where they were employed
They said he had escaped early In the morning
through dining room window. The BODY was
dressed in blue serge suit over suit OF under
wear. The had put on no Socks and wore
pair of bedroom slippers The body was badly
Loio or st pI1F in h6SilpS Delng
deca plated"
At the request of the nurses the coroner issued
permit for the removal OF the body to the
undertaking Establishment Of Bernard Lawn at
West Chester. the West Farms Road The
undertaken was requested by the nurses an
hour later to prepare the body for burial. and
was told to ship it to Newport, R. L, on receipt
of the necessary Board of Health permit.
Every effort was made by the nurses TO con-
ceal the fact that, instead of being &c. G. Mar
tin." the dead man Mr.. Griswold, tnlrty -one
wears old a member Of the Griswold family,
well known in this city and in Newport, r. L
The coroner sent detectives out TO find the
engineer Of the locomotive that had killed Girls
void which he learned was attached TO
freight train. On hearing that there had ap-
parently been a false Identification of the body.
the coroner ordered the body held at the un-
dertaking establishment for an investigation
The dead man is known TO me, officially. as
Martin" said the coroner last night Il am
working on the case. and trying to find the en-
gineer of the train that struck the man. do
not think it is a case of suicide; apparently the
mans death was accidental. ] will probably
conduct an investigation Tomorrow.
LAWN the undertaken. said last night that
there was no doubt that the dead man was Girls
void.
Last night the police of the West Chester sta
ton said that man who said he was w. F.
Emmett, Of New Rochelle, had positively identi-
fed the body as that of George Griswold. I'd
George Grswod, I'd. was a son OF ]. n. A
Grswold the retired merchant of No. 1O6 Wall |
St, whose home is at Newport, r. L Young
Mr. Griswold who lived at Newport. was a
member of the Union, Calumet and Metropolitan
clubs He was born in 1870. and was baptized
Adds Mowers. but the name was changed to
Geol ge by an act Of the Rhode Island Legislat-
ure He was unmarried His mother about two
months ago rented the Burren cottage. at Pei |
ham. and had since occupied it with her son and |
his
Mr.. Griswold had studied at Harvard and Ok |
ford universities and at the New oTk La" |
School II was said that his demented cond1- !
ton had been brought on by excessive law |
study In connection with his admission to the !
bar early in the fall.
Union League and other prominent New-York |
clubs His father was George Griswold, of New |
York. From 1915 TO 1854 he was United states
Consul at Shanghai, China Mrs. GriswoldS |
father was John Patten- Emmett, professor or |
chemistry in the University of Virginia and a
relative of Robert Emmett; Their eldest son.
ter is Mrs. John Murray Forbes of this city
The second daughter was married TO II. r. Odo
Cross, of London
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