Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-13
WON'T OUT, SAYS
OR. DILL, DECLARED
INCAPABLE BY JURY
Special Committee OF Free-
holders to Hold Special
Meeting Tomorrow.
WILL PROBE DEATH OF
UNRECORDED PATIENT
Inmate Since 1881; There Is No
Clue to Her Relatives
or Friends.

Dr. Daniel Dill, superintendent of the
Essex County Hospital for the Insane,
who was declared incompetent in the
presentment of the retiring grand jury,
declared that he had not resigned and
had no intention of doing SO just now.
Il have not resigned and I do not
intend to, at least not until after the
investigation now in progress is COM
pleted," he declared today.
When pressed further. DR.. Dill re-
fused to answer and finally dismissed
the whole thing with the statement:
Il am through talking about hospital
affairs"
Tomorrow DIR. Dill will have to talk,
as the hospital committee of the Board
of Freeholders will hold a special
meeting at Overlook commencing at
10 o'clock in the morning. 1t will prob
ably last all day.
The meeting was called by Chair
man Haskell, of the committee, just
as soon as the presentment of the grand
jury on Saturday told in scaIhing words
of conditions at Overlook as presented
to them during their deliberations.
For ten days Expert Accountant
Conant and his assistant have been
probing through the mixed-up records
at the asylum, and it is expected that
at least preliminary report will be in
shape for the use of the committee.
One thing of vital interest at tomor-
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of the Skeleton" mystery. New de-
velopments in the last few days have
practically established the Identity of
the victim as Catherine Lindner. who
was in the hospital as late as the early
part of 1904. That is proved by a
transfer card from ward ! to ward 10.
theslatter being a. violent ward and
within easy access of the attic where
the burned skeleton was found last Oc-
tober
That transfer card is now in the
hands of Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott
and he claims 1t proves the report of
the New York expert who said the body
found at the South Orange avenue
institution "had been dead for from
five to ten years, probably nearer five
than ten."
The hospital record books show no
record of Catherine Lindner in the
institution, but the transfer card made
out in 1904 is held to be proof positive
that such a woman was there.
What became of her is not known.
Neither is it known when she entered
the asylum. This is one thing the hos
pital committee intends to find out to-
morrow.
Another case that will be probed to-
morrow Is that of Ann Duffy, negress,
SS years of age, who died at the asylum
on Saturday. She had been an inmate
since 1881 and was formerly well known
in many sections of Newark. There is
now no record whatever at the asylum
of any relatives or friends. The hos
pital authorities admit this, but in
stead of sending the body hurriedly to
the potters field, as in the past, IN
this Instance every effort is being made
to locate relatives. DIR. Guy Payne,
of the staff, said today that no trace
of relatives had been found, but that
the body would be held for some time
longer for any possible claimant.
DR.. Dill was asked today about the
case of Harris Geldbart. well-to-do
tailor, of 81 Rutgers street. who was
committed TO the asylum on December
l last. Geldbart was admitted on
papers signed by DR.. Max Feldman and
DR.. Marcus Danzis. and on application
of his wife. Mrs. Rachel Geldbart
Geldbart in a letter to friends claims
he is not insane and says he is confined
as the result of plot against him.
DR. Dill refused to discuss this case,
saying it was a matter for the courts 70
decide and that at this time he had
nothing to do In the matter except
stand by the papers committing Geld
bart to the asylum.