New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-16
HARLEM M0RGUE KEEPER
RESCUED SULLIVAN BODY
Moran's Telephone Call Gets
Credit for Saving Bowery
Leader from Pauper'S Grave.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Commissioner Waldo Wants to
Find Out if the Police Did
Their Full Duty
He Says.

/ That the body OF Timothy d. Sullivan is
not now lying in Fordham morgue or IN
Potter's Field is due TO the fact that the
keeper Of the Harlem branch Of the city
ncorgue called up the Fordham morgue
Keeper and asked IL there were any bodies
/ there unidentified. The call was MADE
September r. An Affirmative reply was
received. and the Harlem morgue wagon
went to Fordham AMI got the body OF
big Tim"
| No death certificate had been issued at
that time, although the body had been
there since shortly after his death Au-
gust g. 1t was taken in the death wagon
| TO Coroner Jerome Healy's office There
the certificate was issued. Then the body
was taken to the city morgue IN East
26th street and later identified By Peter
! Purified the policeman on duty there.
Three bodies were taken from the Ford
| ham morguc TO the Harlem morsue yes
tcrday. one Of them had been in the
| Fordham morsue since August H. the
others longer II was said these were not
tho only instances where todies remained
! long at FOrdham.
Before September II the last call troi'
| Fordham Hospital to the city hospi'alS
| for the removal Of bodies was August -
Bv reason OF the action OF John .
! Moran. keeper OF the Harlem morEue' the
| body Of Representative Sullivan was
saved from an unmarked grave * was
! Moran who called w the Fordham
morsue.
! Fordhanl Hospital IS not associated win
/ the Department OF Public Charities Out Is
allied With Bellevue.
! DIR. NJ. L. FLEMING. acting superinten-
dent al Bellevue. Yesterday said ora
ham Hospital had nothing TO DO with the
detention OF bodies: 1t simply had a place
I 70 nut them when they were found ana
/ brought there by the police. AS soon a. Il
certificate was issued by the coroner ne
said the bodies were transferred 10 t'e
! city mOrgue
/ we have no means OF identification
said DR.. Fleming The bodies are
searched before we sec them. There was
, dissertation Of sullivan in the hands OF
the police.
In discussing the Sullivan case Angus
p. Thorne superintendent OF the CIT!
morgue. yesterday said:
| The body Of Sullivan would have pee"
! sent for at once IL Coroner healy hao
notified the Department OF Public Char!-
ties when he finished his examination
| and II would have been identified. Just as
/ &, vas as soon as il did reach the city
norgue There was such d long SKIP III
the matter OF notice Of bodies from Nhe
Fordham morgue that Jonn Moran
! ke.per OF the Harlem mor6ue, hna"!
called up Fordhlm.
! .\II bodies should be sent 10 the city
morsuc. which is a public institution d.
soon AZ possible. for every one seatVn'He
| FOR those missing goes there. Alarms
| sent out for those supposed 70 have me-
| ,.,,h occidents or voluntarily 70 have left
their homes do not SO promptly 10 inc
| public hospital. Also, II IS only at tne
! CITY morgue that there arc facihues TOY
taking photographs Of bodies
! The body Of sullivan would have oeeh
| identified within forty-eight hours II VI,
]
J coroner's certificate had been issued anu
! the city morgue notified.
III Commissioner Waldo had "a''eu
until he made his investigation he woulo
! NOT have said that the Fordham morgue
vas under tho Department of Charities'
This department is now making an IN
vestiga,icn and will have statement "
make in a short time. The city moTsue
handled FOE bodies in 1912 more man
: ooo being buried in the Peter f1elu'
The Department of Public chsrues' not
Fordham. saved Mr.. sullivan re"'''''
from resting in the same place
Police Commissioner Waldo sara ne usu
started an investigation into the reasons
o.. holdirr Sulliyan's body At Fordham.
10 wanted 10 learn. he said, whether the
police department did its full duty in the
circumstances.
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