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Show I: "BIB TIM" DIES !! UNDER WHEELS OF FAST Til, Congressman Timothy D. j Sullivan, Idol of New York's 'East Side, Eludes Nurse and Is Killed on Track. , MANGLED BODY IN MORGUE 13 DAYS Identification Made in Time to III Prevent Burial in Potter's ! Field; Leaves Estate Estir IS mated at $3,000,000. llJ , NEW YOTtK, Sopt. 13. "B'i- Tim" ijl .' Sullivan, tho Now York politician, who if roe from newsboy to congressman, is III ' dead. Bis mangled body was identi- lil fied today by his stepbrother, Larry 1 Ijl , iMulligan, after it had lain for thir- i jj teen days in a local morgue. i'ljl Sullivan, who was ill, eluded his lit . nurses in tho early morning of August II . 31 and a few hours later was struck f and killed by a train at Pclham Park- j j i way. ii W In Morgue Thirteen Days. Ij II With no identifying marks on tho m clothing or articles in tho pockets, the k Ij j' body lay in .Fordham morgue for thir- E I 1 teen days awaiting identification. This j morning it was sent to Bellovue morgue, g j! There was stationed Peter Purfiold, a j policeman, who had known "Big Tim" I and liked him before his mind became clouded. Something about the expres- 11 ! sion of tho features stirred Purfield's II I uicmorj By and by, after he had pon- J ji dored an hour or so, Purficld remarked ; to a reporter, "That looks a little bit ;tt ji like Big Tim." m Ij i Peering long at the mutilated and Vjjji discolored face, tho reporter thought L IB ! fio, too. The telephone brought ''Big Tim's" "east side friends in groups to ji.jHj the morgue, but riono recognized in the il Jl changed features the man they had j ! tnown in his prime. Larry Mulligan, Sullivan's stepbrother, was summoned. e looked at the face once aud turned j ! Identified by Brother. Iff! "It's Big- Tim," he said. I J Sullivan's body was on its way to I I potter's field when the elm nee observe - 1 Hi tlon of Policeman Purfield led to It 1. Ill identification. The transfer from the I P For.ilmm morgue to the one at Belle- JH vue hospital Is the usual preliminary to Interring the city's paupers aud uu- K identified dead In the public burying I I j ground. i j H "Big Tim" met his death two hours or Jess after he had wandered out into I the night from tho home of his brother K I Patrick at Williams bridge. The nelgh- I j borhood is aparsely settled there and Sullivan had but $1 In his pocket. He j JH struck out across the fields for the I J I railroad, apparently with tho thought in Ij mind that lie would take a train for lM New Tork and visit his former circles S j on the east side. j On Way to Station. j Pelham Parkway station lay not far Jj away. It Is possible that Sullivan saw j fi j Hs lights and mado it his immediate" ; destination. In any event, his body ; !JI "'aa found at 4 o'clock in the morning 1 III near the track3 by a Policeman. It was Ijl taken to the Fordharn morgue. For 1 11 many months "Big Tim's" mind had C j! been under a cloud. Elected to congress fi'flj last fall, he had never taken his seat S because of this trouble. A commission I was appointed to administer the affairs f Ij of his large estate and to watch over his jj person. j .Voyage Useless. ifl Last May, Patrick took him to Europe, jjl hoping that the ocean voyag and s. trip Eli on the continent would restore him to health. When ha came back, however, ln his friends saw little improvement In his Kill condition. He was taken to the Williams J Bridge home of his brother and three m, male nurses were employed to guard 2 111 'm nc l10 eluded them and went mm back to the east aide. He remained there jjfj but a few hours till hl nurses were notl- wfll flw5 and he was again under surveillance. H On the night he disappeared he sat up ffftj till 2 o'clock playing pinochle. Two of J tlie nurses went to bed at midnight The 'Ih third nurse became drowsy; "Big Tim" QS ill ld noh "en the nurse finally alum- Jtjl oered, 'Big Tim" crept noiselessly out C . o' the house and went to his death. II East Side Idol. I Timothy Sullivan "Big Tim" was III mne ot lne beot bftloved of the genial I'm Tammany leaders whose power came mil trom popularity in the swarming tene-mm tene-mm ment districts that have voted many a Mm Tammany candidate into office. His JI Btronghold was the Bowory. There IX eyei?r wlnter he distributed shoes and . clothing to thousands of human do re-Ill re-Ill Hot. M-m -r"Ble Tim" was a child of the Bowery. Mul He was born In a Leonard street tene-4M tene-4M Jnenr ,n 1865 a"1 all his life he resided BffSJ ,n the dwntown district of New York. ! He was one of four young children left l fatherless. Wlien he was 11 years old ho Mm J18 "elUns papers on the streets. But il was t0 ambitious to stay a news-Mil news-Mil boy. A year later he was working In a mil newspaper pressroom. 1 Entered Politics Young. mU Sullivan was a political power In a small way before he was of age. At 23 mm he was elected to the state assembly, Mm and there lie served continuously for Mm eight years. mm After the assembly came the state sen- ate, where he served four full two-year iHH terms and part of a fifth. Then he went Ml Jo congress. "Bls Tim" did not find H Vashington as congenial as Albany, and fcBflj after a few years In private life he was 1 --Icctcd u tho Htate senate. Against his will, It was said, ho ran again for congress last full. Worry was the last ailment Ills friends could associate with Sullivan's sunnv disposition, dis-position, but It was worry, they ugreed today, that finally brok down his keen mind and probably brought him to his death. The death of his cousin, Alderman Alder-man "Little Tim" Sullivun. was the first blow. Tho treachery of one of Ills trusted frlondK cost him. It was said, $100,000. Then came the death of his wife. He first showed signs of breakdown In August. Au-gust. 1011. and although since then there vero occasional Hashes of his old wit. his health steadily declined. Identification Easy. So many friends and relatives identified the body at the morgue an that of the I Bowery politician that tonight wonder is expressed that it was permitted to lie In I the Fordham morgue thirteen days without with-out efforts being made to run down tho several clews that of a tallor6 label in lne coat and the name of ono of his nurses In the band of the hat ho wore when he was killed. In addition to these murks, which any of the Sullivan clan would have recognized, recog-nized, the shirt worn by the congressman bore his laundry mark. Patrick II. Sullivan, Sul-livan, brother of the- dead congressman, tonight complained bitterly that the body had been permitted to lie so long without an attempt to identify it. The body of Congressman Sullivan was taken tonight to the rooms of the Sullivan Sul-livan political association, where it will lie In state until Tuesday morning, when a public funeral will be held from the Catholic church he attended on the east side. Leaves About $3,000,000. Although noted for his many chnritles In life, Congressman Sullivan made no provision in his will to perpetuate them. Mis estate, estimated at about $3,000,000, Is divided among Ills brother and sisters and their children. Tho will. It was learned tonight, was drawn five years ago. Claims against the estate, It wa3 said, would amount to about $100,000. The breadline that forms nightly In front of tho Bowery mission was broken tonight and many derelicts gave up the chance of getting coffee and rolls to visit the rooms of the Timothy D. Sullivan association and look upon the dead face of the man who had befriended thousands. The line of persons that passed the coffin of the dead Idol of the east side tonight was still a long one at a late hour and the prospects were thai it would continue con-tinue all night. |