Evening journal., 1913-09-13
"BIC TIM" IS
KILLED ON
RAILROAD
Former Congressman SuIli-
van, BOwery Political Leader,
Found Dead
MECcINc TIun IuCLVc IN
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FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-"Big Tim"
Sullivan. formerly one of New York's
most noted political leaders, who has
been missing for nearly two weeks.
is dead His body was found today at
Pelham Bay He had been struck by
train. supposedly on the day he dis
appeared.
The Pelham Bay station, Near which
Sullivans body was found, is near
the home of sullivans brother where
he was staying for the past months
in care of attendants. william B. Ell
illson. attorney for big Tim" first re-
,ceived the report Of the body being
found from friends who identified a
body brought to the morgue as that
lof the missing Bowery leader
Ellison left for the morgue imme-
diately. Sullivan disappeared August
81, and Ellison said everything indi-
Gated that he was killed that day. Many
reports Of Sullivan being seen after
the date OF his disappearance we're
received, but on being followed up no
one could be found who was positive
the man they saw was Sullivan.
Great was the commotion on the
Bowery and Lower East Side, when
the people there learned that big
Tim" was really dead. He had long
been the hero and the idol OF that
section. by reason of free shoes and
coal in winter and clamhakes and pic.
lnices in summer and there was rush
for the morgue In East Twenty-sixtt
street, when IL was reported that a
body there was Sullivan's. The place
was quickly beseiged by men. womer
. and children. many of them crying
! hysterically. the women crying openl,
into their aprons and asbashed mer
, furtvely wiping tears from theil
, cheeks with knotted fists
] Lawrence ("Larry') Mulligan. half
; brother Of Sullivan. was admitted .,
the morgue this afternoon and aftel
, one look, he broke into sobs, beinl
sure that the body was Sullivan's. HI
identified the body positively and whei
the crowd saw him come from thi
place and start for the St Denis Hotel
they knew their friend was dead.
Timothy d. CBig Tim'O Sullivan
was fifty-one years old and had beei
a New York political leader since 1897
when he attained the leadership Of tn
Third district, including the BowerS
and was sent TO the ASSEMBLY,. He die
a member of Congress. though he ha
mot attended a single session of tn
body. He was elected TO Congress /
1902. but became tired of Washingto
a and homesick and resigned in 19O
a Prior 10 his election to Congress, h
~ laarvad continuous farr,,o ~ Afbarx- q
u assemblyman and later as senator, an
Z after his resignation from Congress
=, he was returned to the State Senate.
~ Several months ago Sullivan wa
adjudged incompetent by a court an
his affairs placed in the hands OF
y, committee. Once reputed 70 be a mi
lionaire and for many years comfor
u ably wealthy. II was rumoed IN;
'e Sullivan was broke" and on the vere
of bankruptcy
"a Mulligan and William B Ellisoi
r attorney for big Tim" denied toda
"a that Sullivan was anyway near banl
rupt. but admitted that he was
IS financial difficulties They said tn;
II among his accounts we're found man
y forged notes. executed by unscrupulot
n people whom he had helped man
n times, aggregating thousands
dollars.
d Sullivan's body lay unidentified
II the fremont morgue for twelve day
y and IL was not until IL had been sci
s to the Bellevue morgue preparatory
burial in the Potter's field that IL W,
. recognized at that of big Tim
Barney O'Connell, a policema
identified il.