New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-22
Counsel for DIR. Schultze
Gives New Facts for
Investigation.
PRESENTS BRIEF FOX
GLYNN AND Mitchell
District Attorney Whitman Also
Asked to Take UP
Evidence.

7, ,iow Of the investigation Of the Coro-
ners' office recently started by tue W"
missioner Of Accounts at the requeS' -
Navor Mitchell the brief filed WIN 'n'
poard of Coroners by Almuth {. NS'u'
vor' counsel for DR.. Otto III. SchuitZe' VI.
Coroners' physician who was suspe"u',
for month without pay on aHese
charges of neglect of duty and insuporo'
,,tior uoints out some interesting mat
tors which Mr.. Vandver declared shouiu
he investigated copy or the Drlel was
obtained by The Tribune yesterday
Dr schultze. as stated in Mr.. Nandl-
ver's brief. was charged with: % Neglect
NJ duty in falling for twenty-six hours
after notification TO view the dead pooy ol
one Annie Ramsey, a negress' WHO oieu
in the Harlem Hospital on FEBRUARY =
1914 and (2) INSTRUMENTATION TO ANTOINE
D'AIlessandro. clerk elected by the Coro-
ners of tho Borough of Manhattan, VINO
claims to be and describes hmselt as
"chief clerk. an Office nowhere proVideu
for or described in the greater New YORK
charter.
THE first primary disclosure of neglect
was the admission of Presiding Coroner
Feinberg that the statutory duty iaid
upon the Coroners by Section 1773 Of the
consolidated act to issue subpPnas to
Coroners' physicians to view bodies, con-
tinued in force by Sections 1911 and 1910
OF the greater New York charter, has
been consistently disregarded by the Cor
oners elected in the Borough of Manhat-
tan, and that it was disregarded In the
case Of Annie Ramsey, and that no sub
ppna to view the body Of Annie RAM
sey was issued to Coroner's Physician
Schultze, as provided by the above men,
toned section.
"The second glazing instance Of neglect
on the part of the Coroners elected in the
Borough of Manhattan disclosed by this
hearing was their failure to provide rules
and regulations for the conduct of the
business of the COroners' office. The rec
ord shows no rules defining the duties and
regulating the conduct of the personnel Of
the office, including the clerk. assistant
clerk and Coroners' physicians.
THE third specific evidence OF neglect
disclosed by the testimony was that OF
the complaining witness, Antonio D'Ales-
sandro, who, although he knew that re-
peated calls for the body of Annie Ram
sey had been made by her relatives, did
not communicate this fact, or cause this
fact to be communicated to DR.. Schultze,
although he knew DR.. Schultze was on
duty at the morgue and knew DR..
Schultzes residence telephone number.
! Nait ha wifi 1T7h
of the consolidated act, providing that
the clerk in the Coroners' office, in the
absence Of all the coroners therefrom,
should issue a permit for the removal OF
a body of any one dying In the manner
described in Section 1873.
Not only did he fail to comply with
the provisions of this section, but he In
stigated, at the direction of either Coro-
ner Feinberg or Coroner Hellenstein, the
complaint of neglect of duty against DR..
Schultze by Lillian Campbell, the daugh-
ter of Annie Ramsey. going to her home
on a Sunday ten days after the death OF
her mother. this visit resulting IN the
writing of her letter of complaint dated
| February Is. 1914
"'Chief Clerk DAlessandro's activities
| in having one Antonio Giowinazzi,
notary public, take the acknowledgment
of Lillian Campbell over the telephone
on February 16 to the letter AFORESAID
should receive the earnest consideration
of the Board of Coroners and the District
| Attorney of this county. Section 1861 OF
| the Penal Law declares that a public
| officer commits a mlsdemeanor II ne
makes a certificate containing any false
statement The statement of Giowinszzi
/ is to the effect that Lillian Campbell
swore to the statement before him.
The brief disposed OF the charge Of In
subordination by pointing out that no