Show Reformer Killed By Falling While Walking in Sleep Dr C. C H. H Parkhurst Noted for foi Causing Removal of Le Leaders der by Vice Expose By BT MARION F. F COLLINS COLLIN United Press Frets Staff Correspondent ATLANTIC CITY N. N J. J Sept 8 8 Dr Charles H. H Parkhurst fighting lighting preacher and reformer who shocked shacked the country th the with blistering bUster g denunciations den of ot vice arid and Tamma Tammany y Hall was was killed today while e sv walking Ik ng ngIn In his sleep He walked out of his bedroom in the home ol othi nephew Parkhurst and pass d through an open wind window Volt onto the he roof root of a porch from which Jie ie iee e ell l to the ground Dr Parkhurst was 91 feeble but still poss possessing a l sharp tongue The oratory from Irom his pulpit in the broke Tammany Halls Balls grip on New NewYork NewYork York City exposed a a. liaison between en organized vice and politics polities and launched a reform era that extended from one end of the country to the other SHOCKS CONGREGATION Parkhurst had a gift gilt for lor phrase making In the when it was lash ash to shudder at a public glimpse of a feminine ankle he made the discreet discreet dis dis- creet erect precincts of his Madison Square Presbyterian church reverberate with This city Is Js' hell with the lid off Parkhurst came to New York not nota a reformer but a 3 scholarly divine Certain tain lain of his male parishioners confessed confessed con certain cerbin things to him hint He gathered gath ered other bits of information by hearsay One Sunday morning in 1892 he dropped his hL mild manner and arid Continued on Pan Page Two S S Reformer Killed By Falling While Walking in Sleep Continued tram from rase PAe One On shouted shouted tion ton Indignantly at his hi congregation There is ic not no a form under which the devil disguises himself himsel that so o perplexes U us in our efforts or so 0 bewilders bewilders be be- wilders us ut in the devising of ot our schemes as a the polluted harpies harpie that that under the pretense of ot governing this thi city are feeding day and night on Its quivering vitals They are a lying perjured soaked rum and libidinous lot STARTS PROBE He Ho was WM promptly summoned before before be be- fore tore the grand gand jury by the Tammany district attorney and md forced force to admit ad mit he had no evidence Humiliated he concealed his hi profession and entered en tere upon an Investigation of ot the New Ne York redl ht district at that time something which would have put the Barbary coast in its it days to shame He lie came out of oC that with wih evidence evidence affidavits ach each each descriptive of one house of ot ill m repute It I shocked the town The Lexow legislative committee commie was wa authorized It I heard 70 witnesses its minutes mutes filled mostly tied pages concern concernS lag ing Ig astonishing official corruption FORCES LEADER OUT Tammany Leader Croker quit and at the next election electon an aroused pub pub- he lie le removed the Tammany administration adminis from office The Te Lexow investigation brought broughton on the great crusade against white slavers which created create an army of professional reformers upset Innumerable Innumerable Innumerable In In- numerable political machines in every part of the country and gave the then feeble dry cause the impetus impetus im im- im petus that was wa culminated years later lter in iii i the eighteenth amendment 0 S. S |