New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-15
ANOTHER MALPRACTICE CASE.
ARREST OF TIE AEoITIoNrsr.

Mary Ann Lowden, age 45, a widow owning
considerable property has lived for several years at No
22s Thompson-st occupying the entire house. She was
apparently in good health last Monday morning when
she went out, she said to take walk She returned
about D. m and went Mt once TO her room on the sec
ond floor OF the house. few moments afterward
middle aged called at the house and asked TO see
Mrs. Lowden. He told by the servant that her mis-
trees was in her room, and replied that he was phys
clan and had boon summoned The servant conducted
him Mrs Lodwens He entered and as he did 80
slammed the door in the face OF the servant and locked
himself in. The occupants Of the conyersed for
long tme and 1t until two hours afterward that
the physician left the house. daughter Of Mrs Low
den happening to 20 to her mothers room few min
utes after the physician left it, found the door locked
She asked her mother to open the door, and as she
received reply, she became alarmed. Inc nus
band OF O daughter OF Mrs. Lowden broke In
the door, and found Mrs. Lowden dead In bed
The bed saturated with blood, and the daughter,
thinking that her mother had been murdered, immed-
atey TO the Fifteenth Precinct Station house, ana
related TO tho police all that had occurred at home
during the day. Capt Byrnes went TO the house, and
after examining the body concluded from the marks OF
violence that an abortion had been performed. Capt
Byrnes also found the floor several slips OF paper
upon Of which was scrubbed mo. 112 Ninth-ave"
officers sent to the place indicated, which was
drug store, but the physician who had attended Mrs
vicinity throughout the day, but unsuccessful in
their attempt to arrest him. Early in the evening
Capt Byrnes dismissed his officers and kept
watch himself for the physician. man answering
the description given of the physician by Mrs. Lowdens
servant entered the drug store and sat IN chair near
the window Capt Bynes entered the store and asked
his name. He replied: " am George X Gyles the
keeper Of this drug store, and physician Capt
Byrnes told him that his patient, Mrs. Lowden, was
than when he had left her the previous
day. and that her relatives wished him to come aud pre-
scribe for her. Gyes said he would do 80 at once and
accompanied Capt. Byrnes, who, upon approaching MS
saon-house In Mercerst told his companion That ne
would be compelled TO take him thither for few mo
ments Gyles, when informed that he was prisoner,
asked, "Why have you arrested meP Capt. Byrnes
said That woman is dead" Gyles replied, IL did MT
do it," and repeated the words many times In a
nervous manner. officers we're sent for the
daughter and servant OF the deceased, and they
in most positive identified Gyles as the man
who had been with Mrs. Lowden ON the afternoon when
she died. IL was alleged that Mrs. Lowden had been
seduced by verystbe keeper, whose name Is for the
present withheld Deputy Coroner Marsh examined the
body and found that she was only three months ad-
vanced In pregnancy and that her death had resulted
from uterine hemorrhage, caused by the use Of surgical
instruments