The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
HOSPITAL EMPTIED VIA ROOF.
po,iCE RAID IT AFTER REMOVAL
OF WOMAN'S BODY.
Min. Cots Had Been Occupied Recently.
hut doctors, Nurses and Patients Had
Ulcd-IIonse Used to lie Dr. Blinns
-pceLskil Girl Victim Of Crime.

house at 1875 West roTIy -seNe'.'' e'' ~,
about o'clock yesterday morning. Ihree
,,en got olit and made their way into the
hasement. They came out in lew mlnu1es
with great wicker basket which they
Sid into the wngo n
That particular house was the once ana
ssnitarium Of Dr. F. Gray blnn, now
tu,i,ivs in South America. The present
tenants are apparently two physicians
whoss names decorated the entrance,
NJ. Norman Schenck and Orrin B. Kinney.
when IIalsey C. Chatterton, publisher,
..w the basket taken out in the small hours
~ the morning he spoke to Policeman
uurhcs The latter detained the wagon
md found that the basket contained the
body Of a young woman.
Tbe ho1y was that Of Miss Mamie jeanette
THOMPSON. a forewoman in factory and
sunday school teacher of Peekskul.
The nolice and Coroner Scholer were
h,.v with the case before daylight. The
Death certificate looked suspicious to them,
1, the first place, they say. 1t was signed
"a. by Or. kinney or by DR.. Schenck, but
bv Dr.. George Z. Morgan Of II West l3oth
street, physician with a large family
,r,ctjso in Harlem. The causes OF death,
=. given. we're sloughing fbroid tumor
o.5 ra-1lvsis of the heart. DR.. Morgan
c5s cslad w by Coroner Scholer and asked
t,r \, exclamation. He said that he had
made aiu the death certificate at the re-
a.es' Of Dr., Schenck.
He added that the girl had gone to the
s.n,tarium on July 4. DR.. Morgan had
cen called into consultation on her case,
h said and he did not regard 1t as very SER
i1ls at the time. Then on Friday he was
called IN again. The girl was dying 1t
Lar.ened that DR.. Schenck had no blank
death certificates in his house, while DR..
Morgan had, so he made out the certificate
a, favor to DR.. Schenck.
The Police had already made up their
mind, that Dr. schenck was a myth, and
pr Cnlilfoyle Of the Board Of Health con-
sitered it rather strange that disease
which usually takes fifteen or twenty years
to kill should have suddenly laid out this
eir! IN a week. DR.. Morgan was detained,
and Coroner's Physician Hanlon performed
an autopsy at once. He reported that he
found the girl had died from pertonitis
resulting from criminal operation.
ihe "sanitarium" of Drs. Schenck and
kinney in the Forty-seventh street house
mad been tesieged from early in the morn
ing 10y reporters. A tall, deep chested
man wearing a light mustache, responded
whenever either DR.. Kinney or DR.. schenck
vas called for. He made light of the case.
They always remove bodies at night
from these apartment houses" he said,
cit is done 80 as not to alarm the other ten
ants. The young woman died OF tumor
and heart failure" As the morning wore
away the doctor answered the bell no more
and the house showed no signs OF habta-
ton.
Early IN tho afternoon. when DR.. O'Han-
lon had rrade his report. Capt Gallagher
Of the " est Forty -seventh street station,
took a squad Of detectives and went over
tho front doorbell. The police entered
the yard by the back way. beat of two
aercs dogs, and broke in a door
The house was absolutely deserted.
There were ten cot beds in IT. All but one
we're open, furniture was tumbled about
everything showed a hasty evacuation.
II was a hospital the surgical appliances,
drugs and medicines showed that; but it
was hospital without patients, nurses
cr DOCTORS. "
1t was a certainty that the patients did
not GO ont by The front door, and none OF
the neighhors had seen them leave by the
hack yard. A skylight on the roof was open,
however, and there is housetop escape
across the Longacre Hotel next door, ana
thence through d new and unoccupled build
ing TO the street. The police think that the
PATIENTS doctors and nurses took this route.
The detectives had hardly taken possess
ion Of the -sanitarium" when Miss Rather
inc Thompson. sister OF the dead girl ar
rived from PeeksSill. A telegram signed by
Or. Kinney had informed the family Of her
death. 1t was the first time that they had
ever heard OF Or. Kinney, and they had sup
posed that Jennie Thompson, "as she was
Familiarity called. was visiting an aunt on
Staten Island. The Coroner had TO tell
Miss Thompson the whole truth.
In five minutes rnore there was another
surprise The house was full of detectives,
d ru;ics and reporters. The telephone bell
ra'e, one Of the official party answered
it Awonan, speaking from family hotel,
that 1t was. she asked if he would see her
at'ut her case She was told to come up.
II ie" minutes Young pretty End eSpen-
sive!v dressed woman appeared. CdToner
Soy" fr took her in charge and gave her
two-hmnr private talk She was finally
r-rei oosa The Coroner concealed her
.anIa
doom detectives worked all the after
roon on the life history Of the sanitarium.
A nearly a. they could make out, DR.. Blinn,
Th'g he. jumped $4,000 bail and skipped
handed il over. furniture, appliances and all,
to is rros"nt tenants. Under the name OF
Or Soher ck, it vas advertised g,iardedly.
lnt lr. Schcr OK has never been seen in the
'"sh. His rarne is not in the list OF regis
tered physicians in this city. The circulars
and periodicals addressed to the house at
'ci always came in the name OF DR.. ScheEok.
bit e'trrs were all for DR.. Kinney.
Concerning Pr Kinney little could be
.oa med either He is a graduate of the
University of Vermont and il regularly
registered. The detectives. armed with
descriptions and photographs. hunted fer
him all last night,
Returning to the West Fortv-seventh
street station. Coroner Scholer had a two
hour talk with DR. Morgan, who, by the
wav i also graduate of the University
OF Vermont aud is specialist in the diseases
o' women. Morgan stuck to his previous
story, except that he declared this time
that he did not know the name OF the doctor
WI called him into consultation. Tho
Coroner held him without bail. lie will
have hearing this morning.
Later, =, Aidred, the undertaken, OF $50
IoI-h avenue, whose wagon removed the
body, was taken to the station house fer
look at DR. Morgan. Aldred said that
Morgan was not the man who hired him to
care for Miss Thompson body.
The dead girl was the daughter Of shoe
manufacturer in Peekskill and was herself
forcwonan in a shoe factory. She was
SIlrlnv school tnncbcr 1yell ilaI oI