New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-16
FOR MRS. HOOLEY. $500 600.
Drucker's assignment Of Insurance
Policy to Wife Of Promoter.
MURDER CHARGE FROM GRUDGE
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Ottawa. Dec. IA Lcudor cable dispatch
said to-day regarding Adolphus Drucker. who
died in New-YorS:
BY the death Of Adolphus Drucker Mrs
Ernest Terah Hooley viii gain about S467. 500
DruCkeT's life was insured in different com
panies for 100000. one of the policies was
for SJ1oU0. and this Mrs. Hooley had the
fortune TO hold IT taken out in 1900 with
the General Life InsUraa &c Company at their
ONCE in CannOu-st-, but usual with policies
for exceptionally large amounts the risk was
divided with other Offices. The annual premium
was $1,000 and DruCker paid the first by draw
ing bills Toward the end Of that year bank
ruptcy proceedings were instituted against him,
but he failed TO appear on the receiving order,
and left the country in 1901, after having il
stated that he assigned mis- 10000 life in
surance policy TO Mrs Hooley. who has since
paid premiums amounting to $4,000. DruCker,
who represented Northampton from 1888 TO
1900 was named. with siXty-nine peers. who e
ured in connection with 1870 companies which
We're connected with the Hooley fotations.
Because Dr. Frink. OF Bellevue Hospital. while
trying 70 straiEhten the fractured ankle of James
Murphy then being treated 81 that hospital
pressed the injured member too hard, Murphy has
cherished a gTudge against the institution since
last September. and attempted to pay IL on Mon
day last il is charged. by charging that Adolphus
Drucker was robbed and murdered by the nurses
and attendants there. careful investigation Of
the alleged Drucker mystery disclosed no tounda-
ton for mystery at all II appears 10 be SIMPLY
a case OF a man who had lost all o. his own
money and while living on remittances from his
mother deliberately drank himself to death
Superintendent Nabou and the attendants i'm
nlicated Indignantly denied the statement made
hv Murphy and freely offered their services for the
fullest possible investigation Access to the wards
was given 10 newspaper men. From patients VINO
o1Cuuied beds near the one in which DrucAer oled'
statements were received which directly contra
dicted that made by Murphy
Frank O'ConneH. a patient, said: -" nen DrucAef
was hrolI-1t in he sat Oh the bench near me Tor
awhile and had quite a talk with him he spoke
fn q cocIlney accent changing occasionally 10 q
LANGUAGE which learned later was his native
tT,r7.r.4 U,rtrh He seemed rational by spells
NJ O,ConneI said he no signs OF abuse from
.,-. ,4,~ses Joseph A. Brandt cOrroborated this
+,r,sr,r and added that Drucker later became so
z5oler. that II was necessary 10 strap MN GOWN
Toserh Holding the nurse who had him IN charge
made a similar statement 49,
Or. AIabOn said OF James -1--F'''' va
the sensational charges ,-+.a, 7,-- i, S.r
ne US admitted 10 the hosplat i4I2J III SSp
rerTi,ar -Inder the name OF NeiiIltuy-. Ile - a
fraot1lred ankle When Dr. Fink hNI- III nc III eA1
eued kill him - ,o-orsrs. r,b,ysicisr7s
49,, bC,5,- oF T)rrcker This statement agreed win
80 - 5e NV the undertaken VINO pIeptlISu ne
- - 77-rfsI Inspector MCCluSkF Stlu Ildl ne
49, r--tr5 no Indications of foul play, nor any
-a-so-- for exbuming the body, ana lhaI the case
would probably be dropped