New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
DEATH REVEALS CRIME.
Patients IN Sanator1um Spirited
A1cay-Doctor 4rrested.

1 arrest IoiloMliS lale uAslSflpES utdln OF
usrv Jeanette Thompson, OF PeekskiD in the
i e.snatorium' at No. l65 West 47th-st. may
l-evsal conditions worse than those brought to
right by the arrest Of the notorious DR.. Blinn.
Who occupied the same house. The house has
heen occupied by DR.. Orin b. c. Kinney and
lnr Norman Schenck, at least. their names ap-
near on the doorplate. DR.. Blinn is now a
fugitive from justice. having fed. according to
reports 10 South America.
/ II was only by accident that the death of the
yourg was discovered, and after in
yestgaton by Captain Gallagher, of the West
47th-st. station, Dr. George f. Morgan. of No.
GO West l30th-st, placed under arrest.
Further arrests will probably follow.
AT No. 15s is a bachelor apartment house
known as the Longacre. one OF the tenants of
which is Halsey c. Chatterton. a member
Of q local publishing house. He was
standing on the stoop of the house about
o'clock yesterday morning talking TO the night
manager, when he saw a wagon belonging TO
the undertaking firm Of j. Aldred e. Son stop
4 in front Of No l65 Three got out, carry
ing a long wicker nmorgue" basket, which they
took into the house through the basement door
The driver stayed outside. In about ten minutes
ne whistled, apparently a signal, and the
three men climbed 70 the sidewalk and placed
the basket now holding the body Of Miss
Thompson. into the wagon. Mr.. chatterton
.boueht this so strange that he called Patrolman
hughes Hughes stopped the wagon as the
driver was about TO start One Of the three me1
who had brought out the body then told Hughes
that he had a burial certificate although he did
rot show it. Hughes reported the matter to Cap
tain Gallagher who informed Coroner Scholer,
and an investigation was at once begun.
nstrolr,an was sent to the undertaking estab-
rent TO guard the body.
Dr. OHanlon's autopsy revealed that the
young woman had died from septicemia, follow
/ ing a criminal operation. While the Coroner
Was awaiting the result of the autopsy Miss
lCatherine Thompson, a sister of the dead
woman visited the undertaker's. She said that
her sister had left her home the morning of July
/ 4 10 visit an aunt Mrs. Daniel Forest, Of Port
IRichmond. The family thought her TO be there
mtn Friday night when they received dis
match from DR.. Kinney telling of her sisters
| death She said she did not know of any reason
why her sister had gone 10 the place and that
so far as she knew she had never had any love
affair.
As soon as Captain Gallagher learned the re-
suit OF the autopsy he went TO the West 47th-st
house TO hnd it vacant. The police had TO force
an entrance through rear window. Inside the
house were all the evidences of a recent and
hasty fight Ten cot beds, such used in
hospital wards. We're found scattered through
the house. Every one had been occupied within
a few hours. the clothing showing the fresh i'm
prints Of bodies. Not sign found of
L either Or. Kinney or DR.. Schenck but mass
of literature was found in their desks thoroughly
IeVesling the nature Of the sanatorium. Clip
pings showed that the TWO men had inserted
thiniy veiled advertisements in country papers
Il IN several States There Were also many clip
pings concerning DR.. Blinn and his practices.
II The doors had all been locked. but the scuttIe
he 00f q0n he faTy11
probably taken through there and across the
roof 10 another house IN the same block or in
4Sth-st, there being many houses near by which
would gladly give shelter 10 them. No in
The block saw anybody taken away from the
house
Dr. William A. Gufoyle. who. with Coroner
.Scholer and Captain Gallagher is investigating
the case, stated that the medical directory failed
10 mention any Dr.. Norman Schenck DR. Kin
ney was registered he said, being a graduate OF
I the University OF Vermont, besides holding a
certificate from the Lying-In Hospital in 2d-aye.
Speaking Of the cause Of death the GER
thcsIe. which given ''slOughing fibroid
tumor' by Or. Morgan, DR.. Guifoyle said that
Il took fifteen years, without medical treat
ment, for this disease TO cause death, while DR..
Morgan had diagnosed il after Miss Thomp-
son had been i'll but two days. DR.. Guilfoyle
There is no question in my mind but that Dr.
Morgan is affiliated with those who ran the
ssnstorum. II is apparent that it was turned
over 10 Dr. sehenck and DR.. Kinney by Dr.
Blinn when he disappeared
Investigation around the sanatorium failed TO
hnd any one who had ever seen DR.. Schenck.
So far as could be learned no mail was ever
received al the house for him, and he is believed
| 70 be a fictitious character.
II Or. Francis Gray Blinn was mixed up with
/ ne police many times during the last ten years,
ong bearing an unsaVory reputation His sana-
iorium al No. 165 West 47th-st. was raided No
venber p, 1903, and he arrested a
| charge Of attempting To perform a criminal
| operation on Mrs. Mary Miller, widow living
| m Flushing. Long Island
Il Or. Blinn was held ia 81 900 bail. which was
II ~ rrad Frr 4 Ir..lrv~ r,f
No 53S West 55th-st. He failed TO appear when
ne case was called two days later. and was last
seen, II IS said, in South America.
n captain Gallagher and Detective Iohman. of the
gest Eth-st station, yesterday afternoon arrested
Dr George =. Morgan at his home, No. 50 West
L9th-st-. a charge of homicide, in connection
with the death Of Miss Thompson.