Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-15
Mangled Body
Identified by Sispbfoihsr.
Was Hi BY TEatn--Body Found
10 Days Ago BY Policeman.
Was Worth MlIlloBs--as Had Risen
From Hswsboy to Congressman.

New York, Sept. 4.-"Big Tim
Sullivan, the New York politician, who
rose from newsboy to Congressman,
is dead.
His mangled body was identified,
Saturday, by his stepbrother. Larry
Mulligan, after it had lain for 10 days
in local morgue. Sullivan, who was
i'll, eluded his nurses in the early
morning of Aug. 81, and few hours
latter was struck and killed by train
lat Pelham Parkway.
With no Identifying marks on the
clothing or articles in the pockets, the
body lay in F'ordham morgue for IL
days awaiting Identification. Saturday
morning, it was sent to Bellevue NOR
que. There was stationed Peter Pur-
field, policeman who had known
big Tim" and liked him before his
mind became clouded. Something
about the expression of the features
stirred Purfield's memory.
Larry Mulligan, Sullivan's step
brother, was summoned. He looked at
the face once and turned away.
Its Big Tim he said.
big Tim met his death in two
hours or less after he had wandered
out into the night from the home of
his brother, Patrick, at Williams
bridge The neighborhood is sparsely
settled there, and Sullivan had but a
dollar in his pocket. He struck out
across the fields for the railroad, ap-
parently with the thought in mind that
he would take a train for New York
and revisit his former cronies on the
East Side.
Pelham Parkway station lay not FAR
away 1t is possible that Sullivan saw
its lights and made it his immediate
destination In any event his body
was found, at in the morning, near
| the tracks, by a policeman. 1t was
taken to the Fordham morgue.
| For many months Big Tins mind
had been under a cloud. Elected to
Congress, last fall, he had never TAX
| en- his seat because of this trouble.
| commission was appointed to admin
lister the affairs of his estate and to
watch over his person.
Last May Patrick took him to Eu
rope, hoping that the ocean voyage
and a trip on the continent would re-
store him to health. When he came
back. however. his friends saw little
Improvement in big Tins condi-
ton. He was taken to the Williams
bridge home of his brother, and three
male nurses were employed to guard
him. Once he eluded them and went
back to the East Side. He remained
there only few hours till his nurses
were notified, and he was again I'M
der surveillance.
On the night he disappeared he sat
up till o'clock playing pinochie. Two
of the nurses went to bed at mid
night, leaving the third to continue
the game. The third nurse became
drowsy; sullivan did not, and when
the nurse finally slumbered big Tim
crept noiseiessly out Of the house and
went to his death.
Sullivans body was on it's way to
Potters' field, when the chance obser-
walton of Policeman Purified led to
it's Identification The transfer from
the Fordham morgue to the one at
Bellevue hospital is the usual prelinl-
mary to interfing the citys paupers
and unidentified dead in the pupiic
burying ground.
big Tim Sullivan, beside being q
member Of Congress- was worth at
least $Z,UUu,UUU anu piobdDiy aooie
81. 900, geo. according to his chief coun-
selor and old friend, William B. Eli
son, after consultation with Mr..
oliver, the financial agent in charge
of all the Sullivan accounts, colleo-
tons and disbursements.
Sullivan was about As or 80 years
of age. He was born in New York
City. When seven years of age his
father died. and he began selling
newspapers to help support his moth
er and the younger members of the
family. He got occasional chances at
school, but not as many as he would
have liked to have had, and was 9TH
erise entirely salf-educated-
AS he grew in years he became
leader among the newsboys through
his attractive personality, coupled
with pugilistic prowess that was the
admiration of his friends and the awe
of his enemies; and later on like his
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