Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-02-17
ID II.
SMITH AND THE Al
COUNTY HOSPITAL

',''eo with affidavits showing the way
Inc ADA county hospital has been
Kept, and how patients have been
treated by DR.. =. Smith, the hospital
contractor. The hospital, according
10 statements made and sworn TO- IS
worse than hog pen. The sick have
been thrown into it, and left to die for
want OF attention and medical treat
ment. Hon. J. D. Agnew, among 9th.
er things, relates the condition in
which he found the body Of John Rev
noids, who died in miserable shantv
too filthy for a hog. Mr.. Agnew
says: "On the It'll day of April, 1880,
was informed by Dir. Smith that Rev.
nolds was dead. | had the contract
with Ada to bury the county dead. I
went to the place in DR.. Smiths sta
BILE yard and in a small shanty I
would judge to be about by 10 feet,
covered with lumber and not hieh
enough for a man to stand up in-tak-
ing such assistance with me as was
necessary to prepare the corpse for
burial. found Reynolds dead in his
shanty, and in horrible condition.
So much SO that il vomitcd me. /
found his back all raw with bed (?)
sores. The bedding that Reynolds
used had been thrown out before |
got there. examined it and 80 did
my assistant; it stank so bad that we
could not handle it. | never saw in
my life a corpse wherein everything,
from all appearances, went to show
total neglect while living and under
going his sickness. | cannot describe
it; it was worse than | can make it,"
James Dunn deposeth and says:
About four years ago, during the
summer of 1878, DIR. Smith came to
my house and wanted me to board a
man named Bradley, a stage driver
who had been on spree and was
sick in consequence Dr.. Smith then
had charge of the county hospital, but
had no place open for Bradley. Brad
ley came, and stopped at my house
until he died. He was healthy man
able to eat, and improved right along
until a few hours before his death
The evening before lie died DR.. Smith
came to my house and said: Dunn
| want you to sit up with Bradley
and give him these powders (produc.
ing the powders) tonight, as l d.
rect" | told DR.. Smith | was worn
out from loss of sleep, and would no.
do so; that he must get some one
else. So the services of Mr.. Johnson
a neighbor of mine, were secured
and he came to my house, and DR.
Smith gave him the powders with di
rections how to administer them. Tn,
next morning DR.. Smith came to IN,
house and met ME at the gate. Sale
he: Bradley is dead, amt he?
Said |: "No, he is doing first rate
6 why should he be dead?" Then DR.
, .Smith remarked: THAT is strange
d Did johnson give the medicine?" DR.
ISmlth then entered the house, ant
Bradley arose to sitting posture il
bed, and Dr. Smith took from his peck
ct three or four powders, put them al
together, and gave them to Bradle.
, in one dose. Bradley, after swallow
ing the stuff, laid back in bed, wen
to sleep, and never woke again in thi
world. He died about one hour afte
, he took the powders. 1t is my tiru
+. belief that the powders given Bradle.
were the direct cause of his death"
John Johnston's statement is, i
/, substance, the same as Dunn's. ID
IL Jooto, ,.o,o him a rack AR