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Dr. Joseph C. Thoms Charity Patient's Victim, enraged Chinese Tom Yin. Survived by Mrs Ethel Colcord
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a Eighty-ninth ' Brooklyn's GWriese Doctor Gave Life t6 Coimtrymah
Dr. Joseph C. Thoms
Charity Patient's
Victim
Dr. Joseph C. Thorns, for more than twenty years the only Chinese doctor practicing medicine in Brooklyn, is dead.
He died in Beekman Street Hospital, Manhattan, yesterday from the effects of five bullet wounds, inflicted by an enraged Chinese, Tom Yin, 31, whom he was treating for a tubercular throat in the patient's home at 26 Mott street, Manhattan.
Dr. Thorns was born in China in 1862 and eleven years later was sent to America by his parents to be educated. He studied in elementary school and later entered Long Island College Hospital Medical School, from which he graduated in 1889.
He lived and had his office at 1280 Herkimer street in the Ocean Hill section, until eight years ago, when he moved to 110 Macon street, in the heart of the Bedford section.
When he began practicing medicine Dr. Thoms' first thought was of his countrymen who had not been so fortunate as he in obtaining a suitable education in this country. He visited Chinatown frequently and soon he was treating scores of his countrymen witnout charge.
"I was just lucky, that is all," he would tell his friends. "I am enjoying the benefits of an excellent education. Few of my countrymen had the same opportunity and I feel that I owe something to them."
It was this belief that led to his death. He had been treating the man who was to become his slayer gratuitously for two years. He visited Yin in his Chinatown flat daily. He felt that he had done all he could for his countryman, and told him so.
"No, you must come to see me every day," Yin is reported to have told Dr. Thoms. When the latter explained that he could not do that, Yin is alleged to have seized an automatic pistol and fired five shots into Dr. Thoms' chest and neck. The latter struggled with his assailant, much more powerful, and followed him to the street before he became unconscious.
Dr. Thoms is survived by
- his widow, Mrs. Ethel Reginia Thoms, a white woman;
two daughters,
- Mrs. Frank Fletcher and
- Mrs. Ethel Colcord,
and a son. Joseoh C. jr., who is studying civil engineerlng.
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Dr. Joseph C. Thoms Charity Patient's Victim, enraged Chinese Tom Yin. Survived by Mrs Ethel Colcord
CLIPPED FROM
The Standard Union
Brooklyn, New York
17 May 1929, Fri • Page 13
BY wetzupdoc · 13 May 2021
a Eighty-ninth ' Brooklyn's GWriese Doctor Gave Life t6 Coimtrymah
Dr. Joseph C. Thoms
Charity Patient's
Victim
Dr. Joseph C. Thorns, for more than twenty years the only Chinese doctor practicing medicine in Brooklyn, is dead.
He died in Beekman Street Hospital, Manhattan, yesterday from the effects of five bullet wounds, inflicted by an enraged Chinese, Tom Yin, 31, whom he was treating for a tubercular throat in the patient's home at 26 Mott street, Manhattan.
Dr. Thorns was born in China in 1862 and eleven years later was sent to America by his parents to be educated. He studied in elementary school and later entered Long Island College Hospital Medical School, from which he graduated in 1889.
He lived and had his office at 1280 Herkimer street in the Ocean Hill section, until eight years ago, when he moved to 110 Macon street, in the heart of the Bedford section.
When he began practicing medicine Dr. Thoms' first thought was of his countrymen who had not been so fortunate as he in obtaining a suitable education in this country. He visited Chinatown frequently and soon he was treating scores of his countrymen witnout charge.
"I was just lucky, that is all," he would tell his friends. "I am enjoying the benefits of an excellent education. Few of my countrymen had the same opportunity and I feel that I owe something to them."
It was this belief that led to his death. He had been treating the man who was to become his slayer gratuitously for two years. He visited Yin in his Chinatown flat daily. He felt that he had done all he could for his countryman, and told him so.
"No, you must come to see me every day," Yin is reported to have told Dr. Thoms. When the latter explained that he could not do that, Yin is alleged to have seized an automatic pistol and fired five shots into Dr. Thoms' chest and neck. The latter struggled with his assailant, much more powerful, and followed him to the street before he became unconscious.
Dr. Thoms is survived by
- his widow, Mrs. Ethel Reginia Thoms, a white woman;
two daughters,
- Mrs. Frank Fletcher and
- Mrs. Ethel Colcord,
and a son. Joseph C. jr., who is studying civil engineerlng.
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