New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
BODY Of SCALDED
PARALYT|C EXHUMED
Autopsy Shows Tribune's Orig
inaI Story of Farm Colony In
mates Death Was Correct.
SECOND ARREST IN CASE
Prisoner Says Two Other At
tendants Tumbled Victim Into
Tub of Boiling Water, and
Others Will Bear Him Out.

The body Of Harry Williams, the aged
inmate OF the New York City Farm Col
cny at Castleton Corners, Staten ISL
and. who was scalded to death at the
institutions hospital on Tuesday morn
ing. was exhumed by order Of District
Attorney Albert C. Each, of Richmond
County, yesterday evening.
DR.. S. P. Thomas, one of the surgeons
Of the s. r. Smith Infrmary, on Staten
Island. was retained by District Attor-
ney Each to perform the autopsy. The
autopsy of DR.. Thomas showed conclu-
sively that the man died as the result OF
his burns as told in The Tribune on
Friday morning, when the facts were
made known for the first time.
A second arrest in the case was made
Yesterday. and last night Adolph Rahm
alias Harry Sinclair, an ex-conylct, was
locked up. charged by District Attorney
Each with homicide. A third arrest
will be made to-day
Rahm, or Sinclair, as he calls himself
admitted having often slapped the par
alvtic Williams and other patients at the
colony in the face, and said ne fire.
auently saw Carlton, who is now held
without bail, charged with manslaugh-
ter. strike the dead man with his
clenched fist Carlton, he told District
ATTORNEY Each, is also an ex-convict.
"The evidence in the case" said the
District Attorney, proves to my nina
that williams died as the result of this
scalding hot bath, and that the assault
upon Williams. which resulted in his
death. was premeditated and malicious"
The immediate cause of the death of
Williams, as revealed by the autopsy,
was a hemorrhage Of the brain. He was
suffering from a hardening Of the ar
teries, and when he was thrown into the
boiling hot water by the two men, who.
it is alleged, made threats to fix him."
the first shock caused a rush of blood to
the head that broke an artery in the
brain, resulting in death.
Coroner's Physician Changes Mind.
DR.. George w. Mord, the coroners
physician of Staten Island, who granted
a burial certificate without causing any
police investigation, yesterday admitted
ir District Attorney Fach's office that he
did not examine all Of Willams's body
when he was called to the colony by Jo-
seph D. Flick, the superintendent on
Tuesday He said he merely glanced at
the body and contented himself largely
with the statement of Howard Crlspell.
the head nurse, who after showing him
cording to Dr. Mord, The rest is like
this"
DR. Mord went out TO the windswept,
wooded hilltop at Casteton Corners,
where the body was buried, and in the
same building where Williams met his
death assisted DR.. Thomas In making
the autopsy He now admits Williams
was burned so badly that had he been in
full health h. might have died from. the
burns.
lie WS1l 10 lnc DlSlTlcl Attorneys
office after the autopsy. while Mr. Each
was questioning Harry Sinclair. and in
terrupted the District Attorney several
times to ask questions, trying 10 shake
Sincair's story.
There's no need of your talking"
said the District Attorney, losing pa
thence with the coroner's physician. "I
can do all that. There's been enough
of that"
Sinclair, who is thirty years old, sur
rendered at the Elizabeth street station
in this city yesterday afternoon, after
reading in a newspaper that he was
wanted. He was taken 10 Staten Island
by Detectives James w. McKittrick.
George II. Meyers and Lieutenant John
l.. Smith.
After telling Mr.. Each that he had
served FIVE years In Elmira for black
mail and ninety days in an upstate pen
itentiary for riding on a freight train.
he accused Carlton and another inmate
James Kelly. of having deliberately
thrown Williams into a tub of scaldinr
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