Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-09-14
BOWERY IDOLS
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Body of Former New York
Congressman Was in
Morgue 13 Days
big TIM" SULLIVAN
Was Most Picturesque Characters
Wandered From Home Au.
gust 81.

Sullivan, the New York politician who
rose from newsboy to congressman,
is dead His mangled body was iden-
titled today by his stepbrother, Larry
Mulligan, after it had lain for thr-
teen days in a local morgue.
| Sullivan, who was i'll, eluded his
nurses in the early morning of Au-
gust 81 and few hours after was
struck and killed by train at Peck
ham Parkway
Lay in MOrgue IL Days.
With no Identifying marks, the body
lay in Fordham morgue for 13 days,
awaiting Identification. This morning
it was sent to Bellevue morgue.
There was stationed Peter Purified. a
policeman who had known big Tim
before the congressman mind be-
came clouded. Something about the
expression of the features stirred Pu.-
fields memory and he remarked to u
reporter:
'"rhat looks little bit like Big
Tim"
Peering long at the mutilated and
discolored face, the reporter thought
so, too The telephone brought big
Tins" East Side friends to the NOR
que, but none recognized in the
changed features the man they had
known in his prime. Larry Mulligan.
Sullivan's step-brother, was summon
ed He looked at the face and turned
away.
Its Big Tim" he said.
On Way to POtter's Field.
Sullivan's body was on it's way to
the potter's field when the chance OBJ
servation led to it's Identification. The
transfer from Fordham to Bellevue
morgue is the usual preliminary to
interring the city's paupers and ua-
identified dead in the public burying
ground.
big Tim" met his death two hours
after he had wandered from the home
of his brother. Patrick, at Williams
Bridge. The neighborhood is sparsely
settled there and Sullivan had only
a dollar in his pocket. He struck out
in the darkness across the fields for
the railroad apparently with the
thought that he would take train
for New York and revisit his former
East Side cronies.
Found Near Pelham Parkway.
Pelham Parkway station was NOT
far away. 1t is possible that Sullivan
saw it's lights and made it his imme-
date destination. In any event. his
body was found at 4 o'clock in the
morning near the tracks and taken
to the Fordham morgue.
For many months big Tins" mind
has been clouded. Elected to Con-
gress last fall, he never took his seat
because of this trouble. A commits
sion was appointed to administrate
his affairs and guard him.
Last May Patrick took him to En-
rope, hoping the ocean voyage would
restore him to health. When he came
back however. his friends saw little
improvement in him.
On the night he disappeared he SAT-
up till , o'clock, playing pinochle.
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midnight. leaving the third to continue
the game. The third nurse became
drowsy. big Tim" did not. When
the nurse finally slumbered. big
Tim" crept out of the house to his
death.
Timothy y. Sullivan-"Big Tim
was one of the best beloved of the
Tamany leaders whose power came
from popularity in the swarming tene-
ment districts that have voted many
Tammany candidate into office His
stronghold was the Bowery- There
every winter he distributed shoes and
clothing to thousands OF human derc-
licts.
Was Bowery Product.
big Tim" was Bowery product
He was born in a Leonard street tene-
ment in 1863 and all his life he re-
sided in Manhattan's downtown Sec
ton. He was one of the four children
left fatherless. When he was II years
old he was selling papers on the
streets. 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 % he was elected to the State As
sembly. There he served 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
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