“STEERING A CORPSE.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 8 January 1913, Page 5

“STEERING A CORPSE.”

AMUSING NEW YORK CASE. New York, December 29. The first case in which it has been reliably established that compacts exist between doctors and undertakers has been heard here. Dr. Igiiatz Schwartz and Frank Winter, an undertaker, appeared at the Harlem Court to air their grievances. They were arrested after a fight at Winter’s obituary emporium. During the battle the medico fell out of a window and landed on his head in a snowdrift. The cause of the row was a demand by Schwartz of £3 from Winter for commission on an embalming and interment job. Schwartz’s patient died, and ho rushed to the telephone and gave Winter the order. The undertaker paid the doctor £l, and refused to give more. The fight followed. In dismissing Schwartz’s claim, the Magistrate said: “You are a fine doctor—a credit to your noble profession. If ever 1 hear of you claiming a rakeoff for steering a corpse to the undertaker’s shop I’ll sool my dog on you.’'