Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-13
Big TIM FOUND
IN new YORK
MORGUE
CONGRESSMAN SULLIVAN, OF 18TH
new YORK DISTRICT, WHO HAD
Been MISSING FOR TWO WEEKS,
IDENTIFIED BY CHANCE REMARK
OF A POLICEMAN.
ABOUT TO Be BURIED
IN POTTERS FIELD

! New YORK, Sept. LII Big nm
iSullivan, the New York politician, VIII
rose from newsboy to congressman, /
dead His mangled body was Identifie,
today by his step-brother, Larry Mu
ligan after it had lain for thirtee
days in a local morgue.
| Sullivan, who was ill, eluded hi
nurses in the early morning of Aug
ust 81, and a few hours later wa
struck and killed by a train at Pc
ham Parkway.
With no identifying marks on tn
clothing or articles in the pockets. tn
body lay in Fordham morgue for thir
teen days, awaiting Identification
This morning it was sent to Bellevue
morgue. There was stationed Pete
Purified policeman, who had knowl
big Tim" and liked him before hi!
mind became clouded. Something
about the expression of the features
stirred Purfield's memory Bye ant
bye. after he had pondered an hou1
or So Purified remarked to a report
Ter:
"That looks a little bit like "Bis
Tim"
Peering long at the mutilated anC
jdiscolored face the reporter thought
So too. The telephone brought big
Tins" east side friends in groups
to the morgue. but none recognized
in the changed features the man they
had known in his prime. Larry Null
ligan. Sullivan's step-brother, was
summoned. He looked at the face
Ionce and turned away
Its Big Tim" he said.
Sullivan's body was on it's way tc
the potter's field when the chance OBJ
Iservation of Policeman Purified led tc
its identification. The transfer from
the Fordham morgue to the one a.
Bellevue hospital "a the usual prelim
mary to interring the city pauper!
sand unidentified dead in the public
burying ground.
big Tim met his death two hours
or less after he wandered out into the
might from the home of his brother
Patrick, at williamsburg 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, apparently witt
the thought in mind that he woult
take train for New York and visi1
his former cronies on the east side,
Pelham Parkway station lay not fal
laway. 1t is possible that Sullivan
saw its lights and made it his imme
diate destination. In any event his
body was found at four o'clock in the
morning near the tracks by police
man. It was taken to the Fordhan
morgue.
For many months "Bg Tins mint
had been under a cloud. Elected tc
congress last fall, he had never takel
his seat because Of this trouble A
commission was appointed to admin
ister the affairs of his large estate anc
to watch over his person.
Last May he was taken to Europe
in the hope tina. the ocean voyage and
A trip on the continent would restore
him to health When he came back
however, his friends saw little i'm
provement IN his condition. He was
taken to the Williamsburg home of his
brother, ard three male nurses were
employed to guard him. Once he
Ieluded them and went back to the east
side. He remained there but few
Lours till his nurses were notified ana
ne 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 mid
might. leaving the third to continue
the game. The third nurse became
drowsy: big Tim" did not. When the
nurse finally slumbered, big Tim
crept noiseless1y out of the house and
went to his death.
Never Took Seat.
Washington y. c.. Sept 13.- "Rip
Tim" Sullivan was elected to the con
gress now in session, but did not take
his seat because of illness. and rs faI
as records of the capitol show, be has
not been in Washington since it began
work. He draws his pay, however
"bv commission the house agreeing
TO pay his salary to those appointed
b1 the New York courts to look a'ter
his affairs. He had been a represtn-
tative in the 5Sth and 59th congresses
and vas then very active
HIS death will necessitate specla'
election in the 18th New York district,
which comprises New York county
That will be the fifth special election
caused by death since the siXtY-thlrd
congress began work in March
Timothy Sullivan-"Big Tim was
one of the best beloved of the genial
Tammany leaders whose power came
from popularity in the swarming tene-
ment districts that have voted many a
Tammany candidate into office. HIS
stronghold was the bowery. There
every winter he distributed shoes ana
clothing to thousands of human dere-
licts.
big Tim wasl a child of the bow
cry, born in tenement in 1868. All
his life he resided Nn the down town
district. He was one of four young