Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-09-14
TIN SULLIVAN
BASPASS3D AWAY
NANGLED REMAINS OF "HlG
TIM" FOUND IN NI.N
YORK MORGUE.
been DEAD Thirteen Days
Nns Killed by Train september l anu
Lay Unidentified In Morgue
Until Yesterday.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S,-"Big Tim
Sullivan. the New York politician
who rose from newsboy to congress
nan, Is dead
His mangled body was Identified
TODAY by his stop brother, Larry
Mulligan. after it had lain for -
DAYS in a local morgue.
sullivan, who was i'll, eluded his
guardians In the early morning Of Au-
gust 81 and u few hours afterwaTd
was struck and killed by a train at
Pelham Parkway.
with no identifying marks the
lody lay in Fordham morguo for -
days awaiting Identification. This
morning it was sert to Bellevue
morgue. There was stationed Peter
Purefield a policeman. who had
known big Tim" before the big
CONGRESSMAN became i'll. something
about the expression stirred Pure
fields memory and he remarked 10
u newspaper reporter: Gu,
THAT looks like "Big Tim sulI'
van"
Positive Identification.
A telephone message brought SUN
vans east side friends to the morBue
but none recognized in the chahseu
features the man they had known IN
his prime Larry Mulligan, Su4l-
vans step-brother was summoned lie
looked at the face once and turned
away.
"Irs Big Tim" he said.
Sulliyan's body was on it's way to
the po,ters field when the chance OBJ
servation led to its Identification. The
transfer from Fordham to Bellevue
morgue Is the usual preliminary 10
interrlng the city's pauper and un-
identified dead in the public buryng
ground.
Big Tim" met his death two hours
after he had wandered from the
home of his brother, Patrick, at VIII
liam5bridge The neighborhood is
sparsely settled there and sullivan
had only q dollar in his pocket. He
struck out in the darkness across the
fields for the railroad, apparenl lly
with the thought that he would take
a train for New York and revisit his
former east side cronies.
Pelham Parkway station was mol
far away.
Struck BY Train.
1t is possible Sullivan saw its light
and made it his immediate destlna-
ton. At any rates his body was
found maDgled beside the tracks the
next morning. For many months
Big Tins mind had been c!ouded
Elected to congress last fall he never
took his seat because Cf this trouble
A commission was appointed to ad-
minister his affairs and guard him.
Last May Patrick took him to Eu-
rope. hoping that the ocean voyage
snd continental trip would restore
him to health. Wnen he came back
however his frienrs saw little I'M
provement. He was taken to tho
Wnliamsbridge home OF his brother
and three male nurses employed 10
guard him. once he eluded them and
went back to the east side. He re-
meined there a few hours until his
nurses were notified and he was
again under surveillance.
on the night he disappeared he
sat up until O'Clock playing PIN
ochIe. Two Of the nurses went to
bed at midnight leaving the third to
continue the game. The nurse be-
came drowsy, but Big Tim did not.
When the nurse finally slumbered,
"Big Tim" crept out OF the house 10
his death.
Product Of Bowery.
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
Iata int t.f-
flee. His stronghold was the bow
cry. There every winter he dstrib-
uted shoes and clothing to thousands
Of human derelicts.
"Big Tim" was bowery product.
He was born in a Leonard street
tenement In 1868 and all his life he
resided in Manhattans downtown sec
Ton. He was one Of the four chill
dren left fatherless, When he was
II years old he was selling papers
on the street. A year later he was
" orking IN newspaper press room.
Sullivan was a political power In
small way before he was Of age. Al
23 he was elected to the state assem-
bly,. There he remained for eight
years Then he went to the senate
where he served four two-year terms
and part of a fifth. Congress was
the next goal he reached. big Tim
did not find Washington as congen-
ial as Albany. and after few years
in private life he was reelected TO
the state senate.
big Tins" wealth was acquired
from many sources-chiefly saloon.
racing and theatrical interests In
which his association eagerly sought.
once his fortune was estiamted at
more than two millions, but his sat
elites and pensioners constantly in
creased and in late years his ventures
were less successful.
Worry was the last ailment his
friends could associate with Sullivans
sunny disposition, but 1t was worry,
they agreed today, that finally broke
down his keen mind and probably
brought him TO his death. The death