New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Wealthy Physician Who Became Washer OF Dishes
Strange Story of Successful Career Mvstermsv Wreck
Old Associates Sup
posed He Had
Big ractice

were not to mark the last days Of
his life.
Havelock Ellis has offered a scien-
tlfic explanation for all this, say
ing man sometimes creates a
secret identity within himself, which
influences his thoughts and actions
much more than what people say or
think Of him. Fear, self-distrust
and other images of weakness enter
into the making of this secret iden-
tity, and strong indeed is the man
who can escape from it.
Was it something like this that at
tackled DR.. Campbell when he was
making Roadway, and showing ahead
so splendidly in his profession, or
was it something else?
But, whatever it was, the signs Of
deterioration and weakness soon be-
gan to manifest themselves.
Troubles Came Fast
DR.. Campbell married Mrs. Elma
Miller, a widow, and moved his Of
flee from the Sheffield Street house
to the Real Estate Trust and Saw
ings Bank Building, at SIG Federal
Street, Pittsburgh, after which, for
some reason, his practice began to
wane. Trouble accumulates fast
once 1t gets started, and one day the
friends of DR.. Campbell were shocked
to learn that he had been evicted
from his Office because of failure to
pay rent, and that his medical and
surgical instruments had been taken
over in part payment of his debt.
Unwilling to abandon their friend
in his trouble, group of physicians
made up a purse, replevined his in.
struments and started him off in
practice again, but the recovery was
only temporary.
DE- Campbell made money, but
spent much of it, he told his friends
ON the musical education of his stem
daughter, of whom he had grown
very fond.
I've spent $4,000 to train her
voice, bat | think it is worth IT," he
told a friend. ".She is a wonderful
girl and will be heard from some
day"
DR.. CampbelPs stepdaughter. ac-
companied by her mother. went to
Germany to complete the girls must.
cal education, and the physician an
nounced that he expected to Join
them there, but the war interviewed.
and he was forced to give UP all
thoughts Of the journey.
Then, three years ago, humbly
clothed and strangely altered in an.
pearance, he engaged a room at Mrs.
Hunting's rooning house, and took
up his work as a dishwasher in the
restaurant on Forty-second Street.
Preferred His Dogs
CDR. Campbell seemed to care
more for his dogs than he did for
his family" said Mrs. Campbell in
the brief interview she gave to news
paper men after coming from Can
ada to give permission for the re-
moval of his body at amounted al
most to an obsession. But that was
only one of the many eccentricities
peculiar to him and which led to
an enlargement nearly three years
ago.
But there was no reason. fnan-
cial or otherwise, for a man of his
mental attachments and medical skill
to assume the role of a dishwasher."
There had been report that a
short time before DR.. Campbell died
his wife had collected $4,000 in a
matured Insurance policy made out
by him in her favor, but this she
emphatlcally denied. After giving
the authorities permission to turn
the body over to the cousin in Pitts
burgh she left the city without visit
ing the rooming house where the
physicians trunks and effects await
ed disposition, but in a final word
to reporters she paid this tribute
to her dead husband:
CAS- to his character, he was a
man Of sterling habits, neither smok-
ing, drinking nor indulging in any
other practice that would serve 20
accentuate his ccccntricities."
She would say no more, and when
newspapermen sought for informa-
ton about her at the house In
Brooklyn where she lived it was an
nounced there that she had returned
to Canada.
SO then the question remains what
1t was before. 1t would be grotesaue
to believe that DR.. Campbell's love
OF dogs alone drove him to abandoe
his practice and adopt the calling Of