New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14
SHOWING UP THE CORONER, RELIC OF MIDDLE AGE;

arrest. This broke up tire meeting. tn. ~, I.
coro1es s"ddeHly remembered urgen. .rs ~
ments elsewhere, and the charge again,, n
Schultz died Of neglect CoroEer Jsckso, -
the way, was convicted.
THE ONE EFFICIENT MAN PIERS,
CUTED FOR HIS EFFICIENCY
From time to time, as the result Of ur;,
portant delays due to DR.. Schultze's car. =.
thoroughness in the handling Of hi, e,,..
other charge of the sort have been brou,.
against him or held as threat over him L.
spring, because he had delayed until the nav,
day an autopsy on the body Of one Anna R,.
say, who had died from an unknown cause !,
Harlem Hospital, he was charged with p.ol.,.
OF duty He explained that he had purno..,,
put of performing the autopsy because n.
woman had been unconscious, in star. A.
coma resembling death, for four days be,o,.
she died, and he wished the fact Of her d.,,.
to become thoroughly ascertained. But ,bs
charge was complicated with one CT ins,b
ordination to Antonio Dalessandro. the aeh;.s
clerk OF the Board OF Coroners. Il was An.
tonic who persuaded the daughter Of Ann,
Ramsay 70 make the complaint, and Anto,;.
is Republican district leader. So althory,
the Court OF Appeals has ruled that Corn.
rer's physician need not take orders from n,
chief clerk" DR.. Schultze was suspended a,
thirty days without pay. Naturally he hs
entered an appeal.
Still more recently, within a month, in In.
the doctor has been accused Of "niscond,s
to an undertaken" apparently for refusing
make out a certificate Of death before he h,d
performed an autopsy. In this instance bar.
tender great, heavy fellow, weighing around
800 pounds, had been found dead in bathub
in boarding house on the upper West Side
Nobody could assign any reason for his death
particularly as drowning was out Of the qua-
ton, since the man, body filed the tub to III.
exclusion of all but few buckets of water. and
his head stuck up above the brim. Another
Coroners physician would have written down
acute myocardial insufficiency," or fatty de-
generation of the heart" or have satisfied him
self with the use OF some other OF the e.
pressions which, according to Commissions
Walstein, ARE recognized to-day as meaning
in effect that the user of them either does not
know the cause of death or is too ignorant
or lazy to ascertain it." DR.. Schultze decided
on the necessity of an autopsy to be performed
the next day at the undertaking establishment
As a result of it he found the bartender had
died from gas poisoning, and in examining the
bathroom he discovered under the foot Of tie
tub a little gas heater whose burners, it is SUD
posed, had become so clogged with dust and
dirt that only few of them ignited when the
gas was turned on, although gas continued to
escape from those which did not ignite. 1t wa
clear case of an accidental death, but in cal.
ing the landlady's attention. through the po-
lice to the condition of the he ster, DR.. Schultz
probably saved the lives of other boarders.
One might contrast this case, which invol7sd
DR.. Schultze in trouble with the Coronas
Office with that in which DR.. Albert T. Wss
ton, who has been a Coroner's physician u
Manhattan for twenty-five years, is charged
with accepting a present" Of 500 from the
members of the family of deceased Christian
Scientist for refraining from making post
mortem examination. The deceased
for some hours before his DEATH" writes Wall
STEM had received absent treatment, and tor
a few minutes prior thereto had had present
treatment from a Science practitioner WIN
no assistance, therefore, from any clinical MS
tory and upon external examination alone, W.
Weston certified the cause of death as valvud
cardiac disease"
Yet no one has ever heard of DR.. Westons
being brought up on charges before the Bord
of Coroners
In every respect, apparently, DR.. Schultn'
motives and methods have thrown into niga
relief those of his colleagues. AS against W.
Lehane's statement, that he did not consioa
it any part of his functions in the hrst W.
stance to detect crime through medical e.'
animation, we have case after case in VINCE
Dr. Schultze has picked his way straight 70 'ns
heart of a homicide.
There's the case of Rosetta Gordon, TOT ca.
ample, a negress, who was found dead IN peu.
on the morning of January %, 1918. at NO. -
West l35th street. There was nothing apou'
the body to indicate the cause OF death. NO
one else in the house knew or was Wiling "
tell any Of the circumstances surrounding v"