New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
found IN STREET,;
FAMILY NOT TOLD
Aged Brooklyn Marketman
Barely Saved from
BIackWelI's Island.
CHARGES OF POLICE
NEGLECT TO BE MADE
Complaint To Be Entered by the
Relatives of w. A. Edgar, Who
Was Hurt in Broadway

The family OF william a. Edgar. or
Brooalyn. retired marketman. eighty
four wears old who was picked up
Thursday unconscious in front OF NO. %
broadway and removed TO Bellevue Hos
pitai. Will lay to-day or tomorrow
charges of police inefiicency and neglect
before Commissioner Mckay They say
they received no notification that the aged
man had been picked up in the street
although general alarm had been sent
out FOR him.
The Bellevue Hospital authorities also
may have to explain officially their part
i'm the case They made a public state
ment last night. Had ii not been for the
appearance at the hospital late yesterday
afternoon OF Edward II. Short. Edgars
grandson. the aged man would have spent
last night on Blsckwelrs Island.
Edgar left his home. No. "a Stuyvesant
avenue Brooklyn, last Wednesday after
noon. The next morning Merle +. Legee,
tho old mans son-in-law. OF No. 5j3 Han
cock street. Brooklyn. reported his dis
appearance to the police OF the Gates
avenue station and asked that general
alarm be sent out. Legge called there
several times afterward, but each time
was told that nobody answering Edgars
description had been found
Short started ont yesterday morning 10
make round Of the Manhattan hos
pitals lie called at the Hudson Street
Hospital first and found that an old man
who give his name as Edgar had been
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transferred Thursday morning TO Belle
vue At Bellevue Short found that the
officials there had learned Edgar's fun
name and that he was from Brooklyn.
although they did not have the correct
address.
The young man said he explained he
was the injured mans grandson ana
asked 10 see him. The officials objected
he said. but finally admitted him to the
ward. He found that his grandfather had
received injuries to his head and spine
and was in "A serious condition from CON
cusson Of the brain. He put the aged
man i'm taxicab and took him to Brook
lvn. where 4 was said last evening he
might not recover.
The officials at Bellevue gave out
statement last night which is somewhat
at variance with the facts as reported b!
the family: The hospital statement shows
that Edgar was picked up at 4:lf o'clock
Thursday afternoon. taken to the Hudson
Street Hospital and transferred by Or.
Valentine 10 Bellevue, where his injuries
were diagnosed as Commissions of the head
ano face ana possible conclusion of the
brain.
According to the record Edgar gave his
name correctly. said he lived AT NO fO-
Jefferson avenue. Brooklyn. and that his
n,xt friend was Edward n. Short. of NO.
5ils Fort Hamilton Parkway. Short ac-
cording to the hospital officials. was notl-
fed Friday morning by mail on printed
form used in such cases.
The record aIso shows that when admit
ted Edgas told the physicians he was
single man. although he retracted this the
next morning and said that there was
Mrs. Edgar and that she lived at NO. 2o6
Stuyvesant street. Brooklyn.
Edgar formerly was member OF the
firm of Edgar & Dunn, OF washington
Market. About fifteen years ago the part
nership was dissolved and he went into
lusiness for himself. retiring eight years
ago. He is a member of Atlas Masonic
Lodge.