The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-08
CATHERINE BRADY'S DEATH.

THE coRoNERs INoUEsT-No SOLUTION OF THE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO ENABLE THE CoRo-
NER TO MAKE FURTHER INQUIRIES.
| Coronor's investigation into the mysterious cir
cumstances surrounding the sudden death of Catherine
! Brady, aged about twenty years, was commenced in
Chambersburg, suburb of Trenton, N. j. yesterday.
An intelligent jury empanelled, and the
cited considerable interest The evidence adduced
establishes beyond any of doubt that malprac-
ce has been the direct agent that caused the untmey
end Of the young woman. Who the guilty parties are
is enigma which it Is feared will not be
solved. The drift of the testimony points
to Philadelphia the place where the deadly drug
obtained. small bottle was produced, which was
half filled with repusive looking fluid of brown hue
the other half of its having taken by the
unfortunate young woman, enough the physician
marked, to kill four persons. This bottle found
secreted under bureau in the where the victim
breathed her last The sad event has cast a deep
gloom the family of the deceased who highly
respectable and the good moral people of Trenton and
vicinity have been greatly shocked at the developments
revealed in the case. prominent physician, of wide
experience, remarked to HERALD reporter
that he had doubt that the crime
of malpractice was extensively practsed in
Trenton, but shrewdly did the guilty parties pursue
the unnatural and unlawful vocation that to establish
direct chain OF testimony against them
nearly impossblity. Scarcely week elapses with
out a case occurring.
The following is a condensed report of the evidence
taken yesterday
Dr. Bodine testified that he had made postmortefn
examination and found that death caused from
hemorrhago after a miscarriage. He could say how
the miscarriage was produced, whether by medicine or
by the use OF instruments
Dr. Jacob Quick testified that he had been called upon
TO attend the deceased few days before her DEATH no
had doubt but that there means used to pro-
duce miscarriage; tho symptoms she exhibited were
unnatural; when first visited her she said her namo
Jones and that she was married. l asked her
where her husband was, and she said he in Balti
that she expected HIM home the latter part Of
the week; the man who claimed to be her husband
to me on Sabbath morning and said l was
wanted at No. LOG Front street; l went along with
hum; after the deceased he asked me If thought
she would improve, and told him she ought TO i'm
prove the morning Of her death this not pres
emit; asked Mrs. Hcllngs where he and
she said she had not him since he went after
on Friday she was not in the recumbent position she
should have been in she was sitting up in bed; her
stomach in terrible state Of nausea, and she had
awful thirst she grabbed at a small piece Of ice,
put ii In her mouth and said II worth dollar to
her; Mrs Hcngs told me she had known the deceased
for year and that she "a nice, correct girl" when
found her supposed husband was not present at her
death said he was an unnatural, ill-natured man;
suggested TO Mrs. Hellngs that there was foul play
used; she. replied that 4 there was i was
the deceased that death resulted from malpractice,
and that he should take some steps to have
the matter investigated the deceased had been TO Pha
| uelphia week before she died, and when she came
back she complained Of being unwell; she told me she
! took nothing TO bring about the miscarriage.
Mrs Emma Hellings the proprietress of the house
where the deceased died. testified rather reluctantly,
and her to the questions put to her by the
Coroner curt studied and somewhat cvasive. She
said that she had known Catherine Brady for about
year. and that she stopped her house for three weeks
prior to her death was sick when she came and she
told mo she would be glad to take Of me- she
TO my house acquaintance and nothing more; she
complained Of being unwel and DR. Quick attended her;
she was attacked by chills about ten days before
her DEATH she came TO my house when was out, and
don't believe any one brought her there; live alone;
the day she came happened TO leave the door UNI
locked beyond going for DR.. Quick did not do any
| thing for her; she sick week before went
after the doctor; she went to Philadelphia one after
noon and did not return until the next day; she did
not say what she went TO Philadelphia for; she was
not suffering when she went away, but after shQ
back she complained of being unwell; on the Sunday
before her death man, who said he was her husband,
came to see her. he only stopped half hour and then
went away did not know she was married until she
told the DOCTOR | never her supposed husband be-
fore hc gave name but simply inquired for
Mrs Jones; | asked him no questions;t heard no con-
versation between them; after her death found a
bottle Of medicine in her ROOM socreted under a
bureau, Fgave IL TO her father; do not know what II
here produced and denncd.) man, named Henry
West, called at my house few weeks ago; he simply
sauted the deceased; Charles West also called am
sure he did not bring Catherine to my house. Ihe de-
ceased lived In hotel kept by these two men, short
time before her death The remaining portion Of the
evidence Of this witness which describes the sickness
&c, Of the deceased, Is unit for publication.
After tho examination Of more witnesses, IN.
Guiding the father Of the deceased l Of whose test-