New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-19
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
4 DYING PATIENT SENT OUT IN A STORM
TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE METHODS OF DR.
JONES AND her USE OF THE SUR
crows KNIFE.

N'~D-'
The iury 10 try Drs Mary a. Dixon Jones ana
Charles " Dixon Jones upon indictments charging
manslaughtcr in the treatment Of Mrs. Ida Hunt was
secured Yesterday morning in the Court Of oyer ana
1erminer and Disrict-Attorney Ridgway opened INC
case. -,
Mrs Eliza Jane Dcvoe. mother OF Mrs. Hunt tesu-
fed that she went to the hospital with her dauE'o''
Her daughter was alone with Mrs. Dr. Jones nan an
hour and the latter then said she could not tell just
what was the matter with her. but wanted hcr 10 como
for treatment She went 20 her daughter two daN7
after she became inmate OF the ho'pl'dl an" 'o
said no operation had been performed on hcr oiuSo''
hut something had been done TO her so she 'ouu"
walk. on the night OF February - TWO udN' ''
tbo witness said her husband and sOnin law were sent
Tor 70 remove her daughter and she went with them
Her daughter said that Mrs. Dr. Jones had a'hcu "i
II she did not want to 20 home, ana hau '"lu "'' 81
would do her good. While her husband was gone Io'
coach her daughter began to cry ana salu ua' j ''
was TO die she wanted to die at home SIC was pl",''
ON a mattress and carried TO the coach Mis Dr'
ro,os to,d them 10 hurry The Witness daughter
died the next dav at II a. m. On cross eNanlhaI""
the witness testified that her daughter had been S''
for several months and had complained OF pans IN 'i
parts Of her body. Mrs Dr. Jones told her ''a' ",,
daughters trouble not serious ana tiat SIC "'"'
soon be we'll -
ead that he saw Mrs DR.. Jones after tho operation
was performed and she said IL was one OF the most
nainful she had ever known, and If She had KNOWN
how il would be she would not have undertaken IT,
She said that she had removed a tumor ana hau sent
II 20 New-Yo-k. The witness said IL was 9'"'I"'
night when his daughter was taken home. WINE "'o
witness was undergoing cross examination Miss NIFTY
Gearon one Of the witncs,e tainted IN the '"Irr"''
and an adjournment was taken The witness 7du'
when the case was resumed that Mrs Dr. Jones u'n
not tell him his daughter was beyond all help' y
uror asked by whose advice his daughter went - inc
Drs Jones ard he replied by that Of Mrs Mason
BEFORE that time She had been examined hY IL
Helmle. who said she had no tumor as ms daughter
told him. -
lanes A. Hunt, the husband q the dead "'nah' Il
nrnter employed at 80. 80 Bcchman IT,, Ne" loih'
testified that he married Ida DcVoc "hcn sHc wa
sl,nuf sixteen wear, old. she was twenty hNc VIII
Shc died Before she went 10 the hospital me wa
allie 10 attend t. her household duties. vi, Hi =
Jones told him that slight operation "'''u 'N''
her. , ,. ..i.,.,.I ,l.at tho
cauSc of death was an abdominal tumOr ana prIl,"Iu
rho tum0r had existed for three or four month";; y
IyuOthctical question was pat 10 If. a. imam
son b,srd upon the evidence but u was "l.' leu 1,
l Tho defence and the District Attorney wa, aH""'n
IN have more time 10 frame one not open L" ".I''
non EXpcrt evidence VIII DE gwen i"ndN' '""''
Uar.lct asked each of the member ~ me fanny "H
testified II they made any objection - me i'm"'"
of Wrs Hunt from the hospital. and they all answered
in the negative