Show eiliot Eil iop mcay aw boril within alia railing in room 19 in city hall where the bishop inquest is belt everybody te rilay george franca arb iu entered the court room early anadia tributes tri buted bouquets to the coroner the jury the lawyers and all the court attendants dr S robertson of 28 east twentieth street who attended bishop in cue of his francea tran cea had gone out of town and charles thomas of the theatrical thimas thi mas wa the first witness lie told the etory of experiments at the lambs club tho night before hia death and caid that when bishop was taken yick lie seemed at first iko a woman ia hysterics delirium continued mr thomas 1 I heard bishop call repeatedly for hia child but he never mentioned his wife or his mother I 1 did not know that his mother was living did dr irwia make any ini quirina lor bishops friends Iri ends iio did make inquiries I 1 heard no suggestion that the coroners permission or eliat of the next of kin be obtained for an mr bishop died at 1210 monday I 1 have neen him la cataleptic cla u sail fr incisco and other citow but never in an attack as tins last one bishop in mourning that her ana lull bame was washington irving wellington bishop law and medicine he v BS born i mind reader mra bishop and he was aldaya subject to fits and trances when he was years old lie was seized by H cat fit and when the doctors azre called in they should bary him he appeared like adeal person and remained lema ined in this condition six days the seventh lay le awoke all be was 9 years old and ugaku whan he was 34 he had cataleptic attacks and he doctors pronounced him dead adother time in europe when lie biad exerted himself to savo a young lady be had a similar attack describe one of these attacks said mr they usually followed some exertion lie bicanic convulsive his turned blue under the nails and his limbs became cold and stiff there was every appearance of douth did not mr bishop ibave a fear that ho might bo buried alive lie did and always carried a letter with him addressed to doctors forbidding an autopsy and giving instructions about his burial it alati contained contain od the address of his mother saturday evening when he belt my house at 2137 huber in philadelphia to come to new york he showed me that paper and aard that he would put it besida one of my letters t also carry such a letter when my son had a cataleptic fit in california om time ago I 1 telegraphed at once to the masons there not to permit an autopsy or a burial I 1 never gave my consent to an autopsy ora burial I 1 first heard of his illness at monday afternoon and came directly to new york from philadelphia I 1 was told that night that ahe doctors were doing all they could for him the next morning I 1 heard the troth and was taken I 1 see roy murdered boy at the undertakers miss ida orme jones a poetess who mr atchison Atch to call her miss orme eaid that fhe had known mr bishop fifteen years and had taken care in three cata leptic fits the first of these waa at the metropolitan hotel in boston two years apo continued miss jones 1 was summoned to cincinnati where mr bishop waa sick at alie barnett house he insisted on giving a public exhibition of hia powers although he was co weak that ho could hardly walk he performed the usual word test and one of the eaid that it was merely muscle reading mr linhop then asked him to select a word in acme language he vid not touch the man but stood bia back toward liim and then wrote the word backward on the blackboard mr staggered to bia dress aug room and tell in a cataleptic fit lie vw taken to ii hotel hia lower jaw dropped aad hid limba becart rigid I 1 sent for the physician who in the hotel and after examining him he pronounced him dead shortly afterward mr bishop revived louia aldrich the actor said that he waa present Bial iopa death t tho lambs club air stewart asked ruo to search bishops effects with liim he said as it was reported that be had a large eum of money with him bishop had the reputation of a peculiar man and as his agent elated that lie had no parents living and IHO women each to lit hia wife mr stewart wanted a aiu ta in this bearch oo 00 jy and jewelry and when ont ourse was opened ber droppel t I 1 glanced at and handed K L dr irwin eaid lla rat not a nice tiling tu exhibit ol 01 hf would dreamy it I 1 advised hiim to keep it as there might bo knuble mr aldrich waa sharply examined about this paper until lr irwin handed it to coroner J avy annj the subject was dropped the paper was a prescription written in doctora latin dr J edwin braggg of west thirty third gave beati mony I 1 attended air bishop at 23 waverly place in 1873 his landlady bent for me and said that he wag dying 1 found him in a cataleptic condition dr ford and dr leach summoned and atter a examination pronounced the nian dead there was no respiration sad hi imbs were nud rigid there vaa every align of death ilia face was pale and calil and iiii cua were we applied all the it roil tests and dia ford and leach insisted that lie was dead I 1 remained wib bishop twelve hours and alid log foi lini find at the end of twelve houra ho pave a shudder and in forty he had recovered from the attack the defence tried to break down dr briggs but he said that he had uritta n the facts at the tirui his book and bad alio boies aith boim 1 I insisted that was not dead he said because I 1 had been treating him and knew that ho was subject to these fits there waa ab Bol no I 1 biad been in a similar trance in and I 1 have attended andrew jackson davig and two other men who were afflicted in this way mra alary white martinet tup mother of sadie martinat Marti nut raid tatt biscup had called on lier the sun day afternoon before hia death and EC fined to 19 in good heal ill she had afien heard libin refer to the directions to the doctors which he alvae carried with him sweet n little witti a fringe of black curla around her forehead and a very decided way of talking insisted on telling the court that she had been to mrs eleanor flelcher Fl bishop by lord lyons at a ball given by the prince of wales yeara ago afif teen yeara ago began mrs sweet and then coroner levy stopped her she however a tic fit which bishop bad at the union square uriel when he was again pronounced dead by a eliy and alter about twelve hours came to life again the inquest will continue on monday at 2 and the expert will be taken mr george francis train announced that he was going to give an exhibition of catalepsy mr aldrich says that everybody else who has appeared in this case is geini to etar |