New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-09
Miss Sullivan, at Shuttle
Hearing, Accuses DIAL
IeSandrO as FIirt.
LAWYER THREATENS
DOCTORS ACCUSER
Vandivcr Asks Whitman TO Watch
Case. Charging Chief Clerk
with False Affidavit.

riquant testimony showing that tho lfe
and melancholy yesterday interrupted
the prosy procc 2dings Of tho Board OF
Ccroncrs, which is hearing insu5ordina-
tion charges against Or. otto H. Schultz.
coroner physician. when Miss Josephine
+. Sullivan. pretty telephone operator
at tic Harlem Hospital, told how "impcr-
tincnt' Antonio D'Allosandro, the physi-
clans aCCuscr, had been TO her.
As Miss Sullivan's checks grew roster
from Indignation 1t was apparent that
board counsel and spectators agreed with
the estimate Of her appearance she said
DAllesandro had voiced at their first
meeting.
You arc the handsomest blonde ! have
ever seer Antonio said with a sweeping
bow as he stood Just without her web
wire telephone cage. Miss Sullivan tcsti-
fed You have a form like Venus II
had met YOU before net my wife things
would have been different"
Were those the very words Mr.. DIAL
lesa ndro used which YOU construed as i'm
pertinent" Coroner Helenstein asked
the bashful witness.
Yes. they were" replied the telephone
girl with rising voice. and ] call that
base impertinenCc | had nevor seen the
man before. and 7 told him he ought TO
know his place. especially among ladies.
Did II occur 10 YOU that Mr. Allies
andre might have been trying to make
love 10 YOU" asked Coroner Hellenstein
No such thing. said Miss Sullivan
with increasing Indignation. "He was
lippant and insulting and had no busI-
ness to talk like that
Miss Sullivan was q witness for the de
fence. She was called 10 testify about a
visit OF II Allesandro to the Harlem
Hospital February (, when he made in
quiries concerning the case OF Annie
Ramsey on which are based the principa
charges against Dr. SChultze. that he had
delayed twentY-four hours after she died
in the hospital before viewing the body.
Edward 4. Carroll. . clerk at the hospi-
tai at the time OF the y Allcsandro visit,
corroborated Miss Sullivan, but added
that Just prior 10 the "impertnent' con
versation, which he overheard. Antonio
had announced boastfully that he was
the time Carroll declared that the chief
clerk had his head through the opening
in the wire cage where Miss Sullivan sat
Al the switchboard when he talked with
her, and seemed 10 be trying TO get in
DAllesandro FOR al hour and half
was the target OF 4 severe cross-eKamtna-
ton by hmuth {. Vandivcr, DR..
Schultzes counsel and Coroner Riordan.
who is lined up with the Schultz forces.
He had been instrumental in making the
charges of INSTRUMENTATION and neglect
Of duty against the defendant. and Mr. /
Nandiver sought 10 show that the chief I.
clerk had framed up the case because |
OF q long enmity toward Or. Schultze.
D'Anesandro admitted that he obtained /
the Acknowledgements TO the affidavit OF
Mrs Lillian Campbell. daughter of Annie I.
Ramsey. on which the complaint of neg !
lect OF duty was based. from notary |
over the telephone" The witness said
he called up Antonio Griyinazzi. a notary.
from tho home Of Mrs Campbell, at 81
West 1850 St. where she put the complaint
in writing and asked him TO take her
acknowledgment OF the affidavit
Mr. Nandiver told the Board OF Coro-
ncrs that il they didn't take some action
against their chief clerk he would. He
Immediately notified the District Attor-
news Office. and Deputies Spies and Bozzo
were sent down 10 the hearing. Mr.. Van
diver conferred with them 4 few minutes
lie said after adjournment that any &C
ton he might take would depend upon
further developments
DR.. Charles s. Casssss, former house
surgeon OF the Harlem Hospital. was
called by the defence and testified that
Dr. Schultze called Up promptly TO inquire
about the Ramsey case and upon being
informed that there had been no calls for
the removal OF the body by relatives or
others he had said that he would wait
until the next day before viewing the
body.
The hearing was adjourned until go
p. IN. to-day. when Or. Schultz will take
the witness stand in his own behalf.