Show r f j SIC BIG TIM JIM 4 SULLIVAN IS DEAD J Killed Hilled by Train Body in Morgue Unidentified Thirteen D Days ys RECOGNIZED ON WAY WAYfe fe TO POTTERS POTTER'S FIELD Met Net Death Two Hours After Leaving Home of His Brother I. I t NEW YORK Sept ept 13 Big Big Tim Sullivan the New York politician who rose from newsboy news news- 5 boy to congressman is dead His Hs mangled body was was identified fled fied today by his his his' step stepbrother rother f. f Larry Mulligan after after it had lain for thirteen days in a local morgue Sullivan who vas was as ill elud eluded d his nurses in the early morning of August 31 and a few hours ours later Inter was struck and killed by a atrain atrain atrain train at Pelham Parkway With no identifying marks on tho the r. r clothing or r arti articles 1 in the pockets the body lay in Fordham morgue for thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen days day awaiting swatting identification This morning it ft wa was sent to B Bellevue morgue morgie There was stationed Peter Puri Purfield ld a policeman who had known Big JUg Tim and liked him before his mind bec became me 1 clouded S Something me hing about abou the expression r r. r sion ston of ot the features stirred P Purfield's s 's memory By and by after he had hadi i pondered ponder d an hour or so remarked re re- re marked to a a. reporter That Thai looks Iok a little bit like Big Tim v 1 J Peering o lon lope at the mutilated and discolored face the he reporter thought thoughtS S so 60 to too The t telephone l br brought u bt Big BiJ Tim Tims IS t east side friends in groups to r. r the morgue ue but none recognized in the changed ed features the tho man man they h had d P. P known in his prime Larry M Mulligan an Sullivan s 's stepbrother was was summoned Ho lo looked ked at the face eo once an and turned S a away way Identified by Brother Its Its It's Bi Big t Tim he said card Sullivans Sullivan's b body dy was on its way to potters potter's field when whoa the chance observation observation of Policeman Purfield led to its identification Tho The transfer from the Fordham mor morgue o to the one at Belle Belle- vuo YUO hospital is js the usual preliminary to int interring tho the city's paupers and aud unidentified unidentified un un- un- un identified dead in the public burying ground Sig i Tim met his death two hours or less aft after r he be had bad wandered out into the tho night from tho the homo home of his brother Patrick at Williams bridge The nei neighS neigh neigh- h. h S is sparsely settled there and Sullivan had but 1 in his hig pocket Ho lie struck out ont a across ross the tho fields for the tho railroad d apparently with the thou thought ht in mind that he ho would take tako a train for New cw York and visit his former circles on tho east side Probably Going to Station Pelham Parkway station lay lav ar not far awaIt It is away awa- possible that Sullivan an saw its li lights and made mado it his immediate destination In any event e his body was found at 4 0 o'clock clock in the morning near the tracks by bv a policeman It was taken to tha Fordham mor morgue ue For NOTED NEW YORKER IS KILLED BY TRAIN wc I ti I I S 54 4 S fi TIMOT TIMOTHY D. D SULLIVAN Member of ot congress and good angel to thousands of New Yorks York's east side poor His body lay in the morgue thirteen days unidentified and was Vas about to be buried in the potters potter's field |