Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-26
DIED TOO SOON.
A Hospital Patient Expires
on an Operating Table,
AND HOMICIDE is CHARGED
he Had Engaged in a Fight Away
Back in the yOnth of May,
IND HOMICIDE is CHARGED
MAKING THE KNIFE NECESSARY,
But, After an Anasthetic Had Been Applied,
He Passed Away.
ONE EARREsT, MOREPOSsIBLY TO FOLLOW

John DAILY, aged 6S years, died at the
Homeopathic Hospital yesterday morning
just as he was about to undergo an oper-
alton by the hospital physicians.
DAILY was injured in fight with John
McNally, who keeps a boarding house at
1888 Mignonette street, East End, on the
night of May IL. The police report of the
difficulty is that DAILY went home drunk,
and was met at the door by McNally, who
threw bim off the sidewalk. In his fall
DAILY sustained compound fracture of the
right leg. He was taken to the Homeo-
pathic Hospital, his drunkenness develop
ing
INTO DELIRIUM TREMENS.
An amputation of the injured leg was
necessary Daily, notwithstanding his pros
trated condition, stood the operation we'll,
and his physical condition improved con-
siderably.
The amputated leg did not heal, in spite
of all the efforts of the hospital physicians,
and a few days ago DR.. C. P Seip, in whose
charge the patient was, decided that another
amputation would be necessary. Yesterday
morning was the time set for the opera
tion.
DR.. Seip went into the operating room,
and shortly afterward DAILY was carried in,
under the influence of an anesthetic. He
was laid upon the table. Before the sur
geon's knife was put to use, however,
DAILY STOPPED BREATHING,
and efforts were made to resuscitate him.
These efforts were kept up for quite while,
but to no effect. About 1 o'clock in the
afternoon he was pronounced dead.
The Coroner was notified, and after ir-
vestigating the case ordered the arrest of
John McNally on a charge OF murder. This
was done, and McNally was placed in the
Nineteenth ward station house.
DR.. Seip was seen at his Office last night.
He said that Daly's physical condition was
such yesterday morning that he considered
it perfectly safe to perform the operation.
DAILY had been taken to the ante-room be-
fore he was taken into the operating room,
and an anesthetic, composed of alcohol,
chloroform and ether. administered to him
by DR.. Blair, resident physician at the hos
pital. DR.. Seip says DAILY was given the
usual amount of the anasthetic for an oper-
alton of this kind. He died before any
thing was done to his leg.
HE HAD BUT ONE FRIEND.
Nothing could be learned about Daly's
hi story. He refused to tell the hospital
physicians anything about himself further
than that he was a laborer, single. lived in
Pittsburg, and had mot friend in the
world except God Almighty"
Dr.. Seip was asked if he thought that
death was caused by the medicine admins
tered to him. He said no one could tell
that. DAILY was in pretty good condition
yesterday morning, and he was willing to
risk having the amputation performed in
order to get his leg to heal up. The doctor
thought that death might possibly have re-
suited had no anesthetic been admins
tered. However, the doctor said he had
nothing to do with the administration of the
medicine, as it had been given, as was done
in all large hospitals, by the surgeons as
eistants.
The body was turned over 10 the Coroner
and taken to the morgue. A post mortem
will be held on the remains this morning.