The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-23
GRERNBERG DIDN'T STAYDEAD.
CORONERS CASE Much ALIVE
WHEN CORONER CAME.
There'd Been Four Doctors There. and Eaco
Says the Others Decided That the
Old Man Vas Dead-He says He Was
Assaulted BY . Restaurant Keeper.

Nobody was eager Yesterday to assume
the responsibility for saying that simon
Greenberg, the glazier. was dead. But
certainly, when Coroner jackson arrived
at Mr.. Greenbergs home. ih4 Second
avenue. early yesterday morning, the opin-
ion in the neighborhood was that one OF
its prominent citizens had paced away.
According to the story told TO the police
and the Coroner, Mr.. Greenberg, who IA
90 years old and has white whiskers, had
been assaulted in a Third avenue restau-
rant by the proprietor and some OF the
walters and had come home in barely
sensible state. After being attended by
four doctors he was declared TO be dead.
Each of the doctors now insists that 1t was
the other doctors who said that he was
dead.
The Coroner was pulled out OF bed at
2 O'Clock in tine morning by the police. who
had already arrested the restaurant
keeper, Barney Marchand, and two OF his
walters and had charged them with homl-
eide. Marchand is a patient OF the Coro-
ner's brother, Or. NJ. jackson. Of $50 East
Seventy-ninth street.
Marchand sent for DR.. NJ. jackson The
Coroner and his brother met at the police
station. and the Coroner released Marchand
in $4,000 bail. Then they went over TO
Greenberg's house.
Where is the corpse?- the Coroner asked
He is dead again, was the answer OF
one Of crowd Of several hundred neigh
bors who lined the stairways and blocked
the sidewalk. He was dead. Then he
came to life. Now he is dead again.
The Coroner and his brother went up
stairs and found Greenberg lying In bed,
The weeping family was at the bedside.
HAS the undertaken been here?' asked
the Coroner.
NO said one OF the family. He was
alive again. and so We didn't have the
undertaken yet
Isn't he dead'- inquired the Coroner.
Three doctors said he was dead. any
way" said the young man.
Mr.. Greenberg seemed to the two Jacksons
to be breathing heavily. The physician
shook him, but there was no sign Of re-
awakening and the family began to pro-
test. DR.. NJ. jackson then applied test
and. according to the physicians story.
Mr.. Greenberg leaped up in the bed and
shouted Let 60 OF me. let go Of me.
Mr.. Greenberg told the Coroner the same
story that he had told to the police. He
said that he had looked into the restaurant
window and thought that he recognized
friend sitting at table and went in and
walked up to the man. The proprietor, he
said apparently took him for a beggar and
called two walters Then he was thrown
out on the sidewalk suffering many and
serious injuries.
The Coroner took an ante-mortem state
ment from him later in the day on general
principles 1t was impossible to tell yester-
day afternoon just how much the man was
hurt There was no evidence apparently
Of any fracture or of conclusion OF the brain.
Moreover. it came out that ha grain OF
morphine had been injected into Mr..
Greenberg after he zane home. along with
digitalis nitro-glycerine and other drugs.
stransky OF Ms East Seventy fourth street.
He says that he found the patient in con-
vulsions, with all the symptoms OF alec,
holism. The family was greatly ,displeased
with this diagnosis and insisted that Mr..
Greenberg never drank to excess.
DR.. Stransky prescribed morphine. which
was administered by DR.. Brodiel. the second
physician TO arrive. Then DR.. Feinberg and
DR.. Goldheimer car caIne in 1; They disi
said Mr.. Greenberg had conclusion OF the
brain
They gave him other drugs, said DR..
Stransky, but / was out Of the case.
e and got out. But we all thought he
would die and said that he was dying. l
didn't say he was dead
Dr. Feinberg also denies that ne said
the patient was dead SO do the. other
physicians.
Ex-Assemblyman Joseph |. Green APP
peared in the York vile COURT yesterday
TO defend the men, and when he heard that
Marchand had gone 10 the Coroner's ONCE
he went down there telephone mes
/ sage was received at the court from the
Coroner to send the rest Of the prisoners
down.
Magistrate Poo said he didn't see why,
and held the walters in 1000 bail each
| for examination Tomorrow.
Fl. told a policeman to tax. the men
to the Coroner's Office before locking them
up, but Coroner jackson sent them back
F., to the court and reduced the proprietor's
bail to 81 500.