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Last week, as the body of Brother Salesius was buried, Hoboken police arrested two Skid Row derelicts who, they said, had confessed the attack...
...Hoboken park, he stepped into a public washroom. There, two hoodlums attacked Brother Salesius, beat him insensible and stole his wallet. It held about $10. They left the old white-haired monk unconscious on the washroom floor...
...Brother Salesius revived after a few moments, and made his way back to his quarters at St. Mary's Hospital. He asked one of the nuns to lend him a needle & thread to sew up a tear in his clothes, but said nothing of what had happened...
...dinner engagement at St. Francis Hospital in nearby Jersey City, and when he appeared, holding a handkerchief to his face, Sister Amalia, the superintendent, suggested that he go to the clinic. Brother Salesius protested at first that it was merely a bump, and his injuries amounted to nothing. Then he told about the attack, but he asked her not to tell the three members of his order who were traveling with him, for fear they might worry unduly about...
Sister Amalia called the police. Could he describe the men who attacked him? Brother Salesius did so, reluctantly. "It may be," said the man who had given a lifetime to charity, "that they needed the money badly." While he was talking to the police, he began to feel ill. He was taken to a hospital bed, and the doctors gave their diagnosis: a cerebral hemorrhage. For two hours, until he sank into a coma and died, Brother Salesius prayed aloud for the two men who had robbed...