Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-13
BIG TIM SULLIVAN
KILLED BY TRAIN !
NEAR NEW YORK
Body Found on New Haven
Railroad Tracks Identified
by Half-Brother.
HAD BEEN IN MORGUE
THERE THIRTEEN DAYS
Congressman, Friend of Bow
cry Waits, Was Near Burial
in Potter's Field.

NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-"Big Tim
Sullivan. the New York politician
and friend of the Bowery poor VINO
rose from newsboy to congressman.
is dead.
His mangled body was Identified to-
day by MS step-brother. Laurence
Mulligan, after it had lain for thir-
teen days in q local morgue.
Sullivan. who was i'll, eluded his
nurses in the early morning OF August
81. and a few hours after was struck
and killed by train at Pelham
Parkway.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1S-"Big
Tim" Sullivan was elected to the
Congress now in session. but he never
took his seat because of his illness.
and as far as records of the capitol
show he had not been in Washington
since il began work.
He drew his pay. however. by
commission" the House agreeing 70
pay his salary TO those appointed by
the New York courts to look after
his affairs
He had been a representative in
the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth con-
crosses and was then very active.
His death will necessitate a special
election In the thirteenth New York
district. which comprises New York
county. That will be the fifth spe-
cisl election caused by death since
the sixty-third Congress began work
in March
Body Sent 10 Bellevue Moreue.
With no identifying marks on the
clothing or articles in the pockets. the
body lay in Fordham morgue for thir-
teen days. awaiting identification
This morning it was sent to Bellevue
morgue.
There was stationed Peter Purified
policeman who had known Big
Tim and liked him before his mind
became clouded. Something about the
expression of the features stirred Pu1-
fields memory. By and by, after he
had pondered an hour or So Purified
remarked TO a reporter:
That looks a little, bit Like Big
Tim :
Peerine long at the mutilated and
discolored face, the reporter thought
so. too. The telephone brought in
big Tim's'' East Side friends in
groups to the morgue. but none recog
nized in the changed features the man
they had known in his prime.
Laurence Mulligan. Sullivan's step
brother. was summoned. He looked at
the face once and turned away
It's Big Tim. :" he said.
On Way to Potterss Fields.
Sulliyan's body was on its way 10
Potter's field when the chance obser-
walton Of Policeman Purified led TO its
identification.
The transfer from the Fordham
- p-fI II
pital is the usual preliminary TO in
terring the eity's paupers and uni
Identified dead in the public burying
ground
big Tim met his death two hours
or less after he had wandered out into
the night from the home of his brother
Patrick, at Williamsbridge. The
neighborhood is sparsely settled there.
and Sullivan had but dollar in his
pocket
He struck out across the fields for
the railroad, apparently with the
thought in mind that he would take
train for New York and revisit his
former cronies on the East Side. Pel-
ham Parkway station lay not far
away.
1t is possible Sullivan saw its light
and made it his immediate destina-
ton. In any event his body was
found at o'clock in the morning
near the tracks by a policeman II
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
taken his seat because of this trouble.
A commission was appointed to adj
minister the affairs of his large es-
tate and TO watch his person.
Trip Did hut little GOOD.
Last May. Patrick took him 10
Europe. hoping that the voyage and
a trip on the continent would re-
store him to health. When he came
back, however. his friends saw little
Improvement in his condition.
He was taken TO the Williamsburg
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
but few hours TIL his nurses were
notified and he was again under
surveillance.
On the night he disappeared he
sat up till O'Clock playing pinochle
Two of the nurses went to bed at
midnight, leaving the third to con-
tinue the game. The third nurse be-
came drowsy: big Tim" did not.
When the nurse finally slum bered
the house and went to his death.
big Tim" was one of the best he
loved of the genial Tammany Lead
ers whose power came from popu-
larity in the swarming ienement
districts that have voted many a
Tammany candidate into office. His
stronghold was the Bowery. There
every winter he distributed shoes
and clothing TO thousands of human
derelicts.
Was a Child of the Bowery.
big Tim was child Of the
Bowery.
He was born in a Leonard street
tenement in 1863 and all his life he
resided in the downtown section OF
young children left fatherless. When
he was eleven years old he was sell
ing papers on the streets But he
was too ambitious TO stay a newsboy.
A year later he was working in
newspaper press room
Sullivan was a political power in
a small way before he was of age
At twenty-three he was elected to
the state assembly. There he served
continuously for eight years.
After the assembly came the State
senate, where he served four full
two-year terms and part oe fifth
Then he went TO Congress- Big
Tim did not find Washington as
congenial as Albany and afte~ z few
years In private life he was reelcct-
ed to the state senate. Agains1 hts
will. it was said, he ran again for
Congress last fall.
Big Tins" wealth was acquired