The Mena weekly star., 1913-09-18
BODY OF BIG TIM"
 SULLIVAN FOUND.
It Lay in New York MOrgue for Thirteen Days Unidentified Was Killed by Train-FrOm
 NeWSbOy to Congressman.

gressman, is dead.
 His mangled body was identified today by his step-brother, Larry Mulligan, after it had lain for IS days in a local morgue.
 Sullivan, who was ill. eluded his nurses in the early morning of Au- gust 3i, and a few hours after was struck and killed by train at Pel- ham Parkway.
 With no identifying marks, the body lay in Fordham morgue for l3 days awaiting identification This morning it was sent to Bellevue morgue. There was stationed Pe- ter Purfeld, a policeman who had known Big Tim" before the con- eressman's mind became clouded. Something about the expression of the features stirred Purfield's mem- ory and he remarked to a reporter:
 That looks a little bit like Big Tim
 peering long at the mutilated and discoored face, the reporter thought so too. The telephone brought l5 of Big Tins east side friends to the morgue, but none recognized in the changed features the man they had known in his prime.
 Larry MulHgan, Sullivan's step brother, was summoned. He looked fat lhe face once and turned away. Its Big Tim he said,
 On Way to POtter'S Field.
 Sullvan's body was on its way to the potters field when the chance observation led 10 its identification, The transfer from Fordham to Bellevue morgue is the usual pre- IIiminary to interring the citys pau pers and unidentified dead in the public burying ground.
 Big Tim" met his death two hours after he had wandered away from the home of his brother, Pat rick. at Williams bridge. The ncighborhood is sparsely settled there and Sullivan had only dol- | Iar in his pocket. He struck out in | thp darkness across the fields for the railroad. apparently with the l thought that he would take train | for New York and revisit his for | Inner East Side crOnies.
 Pelham Parkway station was not far away. IL is possible that Sulli- Ivan saw it's lights and made it his immediate destination. Tn any Ievant. his body was found at f 1 Io'cIork in the morning near the tracks and was taken to the Ford ham morgue.
 For many months Big Tins" mind had been clouded. Elected to Congress last fall. he never took his seat because of this trouble. \ com mission was appointed to adminis- ter his affairs and guard him.
 Product of the BOWcry.
 Last May Patrick took him to Eu- rope, hoping that the ocean voyage and continental trip would restore him to health. When he came back, however. his friends saw little im- proVement in him. He was taken to the Williams Bridge home of his brother, and there male nurses were employed to guard him. Once he eluded them and went back to the East Side. He remained there a few hours till his nurses were noti- fled, and he was again under sur Yeillance.
 On the night he disappeared he sat up till 2 o'clock playing pi- nochle. Two of the nurses went to bed at midnight, leaving the third to continue the game. The third Inurse became droWsy; Big Tim did not. When the nurse finally slumbered Big Tim" crept out of the house to his death.
 Timothy D. Sullivan-"Big Tim" was one of the best beloved of the Tammany leaders whose power came from popularity in the swarming tenement districts that have voted many a Tammany can didate into office. His stronghold was the Bowery. There every win ter he distributed shoes and cloth ing to thousands of human dere- icts.
 Big Tim" was a BOwery product, He was born in a Leonard street tenement in 1885, and all his life he resided in Manhattan's downtown section. He was one of four chil- dren left fatherless. When he was fl years old he was selling papers on the streets. A year later he was working in a newspaper press l room.
 Once Worth Millions.
 Sullivan was a political power in small way before he was of age. At 23 he was elected to the state assembly. There he served for eight years. Then he went to the Senate, where he served four two year terms and part of fifth. Con- gress was the next goal he reached. Big Tim" did not find Washing ton as congenial as Albany, and after a few years in private life he was reelected to the State Senate. Against his will, it was said, he ran for Congress last fall.
 Big Tim's" wealth was acquired from many sources-chiefly saloon, racing and theatrical interests, in which hic nccnnia tinn was eagerly