The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-17
PRISONER DYING, NOT DRUNK.
LATE READER HEARD GROAN
AND FALL on 3lTH ST.

YOUNG Man with Cut Head Bundled or 10
Tenderioin RtatlOn-Ambulance Doctor
incidentally sized Up His Condition
skull FraCtuFed-Name Unknown,
A man In evening clothes found Police
man Shibles on Fifth avenue near Thirty
fourth street at 2 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing and told him that something was wrong
in front Of the house In which he lived at 8
East Thirty-fouTth street. Shibles hurried
around to the house. He found a we'll
dressed young man with a cut on his head
lying against a steel door leading to the
cellar.
i was out late, said the man who found
the cop, 'and / was sitting up reading
when heard a noise as II something had
struck the steel door. listened and /
heard groan and put on my hat and came
down stairs. saw this man lying there,
and he looked remarkably like the chap
saw surrounded by several others at Broad
way and Thirty-fourth street when was
on my way home
Shibles stood the young man on his feet
and got Whit Of his breath.
ITS nothing but a plain drunk. said the
cop, -and he cut his head when he fell"
Shibles lett the injured men in charge OF
the other while he went 10 a telephone TO
summon the patrol wagon. The man with
the cut head was in a stupor and made no
replies 20 questions. He was conscious
but didn't or couldn't reply to anything.
said TO him
When the patrol wagon arrived the man
was bundled into II and taken 70 the Tender
loin police station. There Shibles charged
him with drunkenness, but the man was 80
dopy that he was allowed 70 sit in the back
room 10 sec II he would recover his senses
While he was there DR.. Lathrop Of the New
York Hospital was called to attend another
drunken man with cut head After
fixing up the drunk he noticed Shibles's
prisoner sitting in a dropping posture in a
chair. Dr. Lathrop felt the mans pulse and
found II was very weak
What about this man?' asked the doctor
Of the sergeant.
Hes only drunk was the response.
Were letting him sit there to see II we
can get anything out Of him
We'll, I'm going to take him to the hos
pital, said DR.. Lathrop. Hes almost in.
he may have been drinking, but there is
something else the matter with him
He was placed in the ambulance and
taken TO the hospital. He was unconscious
when he left the station, Some time before
DR.. Lathrop took an interest in the man,
Policeman Shibles says the man told him
he was John Williams Of $40 Seventh avenue
At the hospital the man never reRained
consciousness and he died at O'Clock
yeste rlay afternoon. His death was due
70 a fracture Of the base Of the skull The
death was reported TO the Tenderloin police
and 10 the Coroners' oflce. Neither the
police nor the Coroner took much interest
In Il.
The man does not live at $40 Seventh
avenue, and II Is moro than likely that his
name is not John Williams. He was about
p years old and had the makeup Of a
college man. He was very well dressed.
He was feet inches tall and had blue
eyes and light hair He had no overcoat,
but wore a double breasted tweed suit
made by Davis at S2i Broadway. He had
patent leather shoes that looked hand made,
gray woollen underwear and a white pleated
linen shirt with the laundry mark H. r. r
There wasn't paper, a cent OF money
or a piece Of jewelry In the young mans
pockets when he was brought to the police
station