The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-07


told her story in the Frances VIII
lard home. No. 125 High-st. west
Tuesday. II was story OF pathos
and herolsm and the mischief that
can be wrought by carelessness in
the public service.
Throughout the summer, Mis-
Morrow had been with her brother,
Thomas Borrow, almost daily. He
was a bricklayer. hard worker and
2 man of simple tastes. who found
his best amusement in outing trips
with his sister She had decided
to remain in Detroit because the
brother was in poor health.
Miss Morrow saw her brother
Thursday night, Aug. 10. He had
spoken of jobs out of the city and
also said he had been threatened
for speaking out for the right" in
an argument with acquaintances,
Friday night. the brother did not
appear. Miss Morrow felt no alarm.
thinking her brother had left the
city When Sunday night passed
/ without the accustomed visit, she
wen 10 his room al No. ) Middle-st.
/ he had not been seen there since
the previous Thursday night. Miss
Morrow paid her brothers rent a
week in advance, hoping he would
/ return
Miss Morrow next visited police
/ headquarters She could get no
trace of her brother. The police
! did not speak of the man who fell
/ Imply and died on the sidewalk at
daybreak. They took a description
1 and would let her know"
More days passed without sign
Of the brother. and each day tho
dauntcss sister continued her quest
/ in every way she could contrive.
I She called all the hospitals without
avail She was confident her broth.
or could not have died unidentified
/ in Detroit. as he carried union
/ card and a book with his own and
/ the names OF relatives entered in II.
Al last. Miss Morrow went TO the
/ coroncrs' ONCE and told her trouble.
/ William De Laurier. a clerk, said
an unidentified man had been picked
mp the morning Of Aug II. Her
brother had his initials tattooed on
enc arm and wore n plate in tho
roof OF his mouth, and the clerks
description OF the unidentified man
noted neither Of those details
'Yo1 can rest assured 1t was not
your brother she bad been told.
Determined 10 follow out her
search Miss Morrow sent for her
sister. Miss Katherine Morrow, who
FASTENED to Detroit from Toronto
Her conviction was strengthened
when she went &c the Detroit Cream
cry plant and interviewed members
Of tho night shift who had seen the
unidentified man expire on the side
walk She had fixed a shirt for
! hcr brother. and he had II under his
/ arm when she last saw him The
/ man on the sidewalk had a shirt
wrapped in paper under his arm.
She had given her brother a bottle
OF tablets night worker had seen
a bottle OF tablets taken from the
dead man 49,,
Miss Morrow9had been searching
for her brother two weeks before
she learned thar when she made her
first visit toJthe coroners' Office,
the body she thought that OF her
brother, had been buried in the pot
ter's field. Stewart Tolton. former
| ly OF Hamilton, Ont, friend OF the
sister, told her this after he went
10 the morgue with the intention OF
viewing the body.
The sisters then resolved 10 have
the body exhumed. Another visit
10 the coroners once revealed that
the only examination OF the body
was made by employees who do this
work regularly. No person higher
up In the coroner's ONCE had seen
the corpse. The coroner's Office be-
gan TO admit there was POSSIBLE
fly the dead man was Thomas Nor
row.
Next. the sisters noticed In The
Detroit Times an item about an un-
identified man dying on the side
walk the morning OF Aug. IL. The
story announced that William Brock,
creamery emrloye, was the FIRST
man TO pick up the body. II was
he who lit match and ascertained
the man was dead.
The sisters hurried 10 interview
Brock. whom they found on duty IN
the engineering department. He re-
peated descriptions OF the dead man
already given many times. but add
cd the story OF the bunch OF keys
The keys were taken from tool
box. and the end OF the search was
az hand.
When applied TO the lock Of
Thomas Morrow's room al the Mid
dlc.st. address. they opened the
door. The clue rejected by the mo-
torcycle policeman had solved a
mystery that could have been
cleared The first day Miss Morrow
appeared
Tho sisters stood on the brink OF
a grave. last Thursday. for the final
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