The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-18
DR.. PIPES DISCHARGED
Aud Taylor Foreman Held to Court Last
Night.

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Thursday night and was continued I'll
last night, was ascommenced at $3.50 o'clocl
Hast evening at Justice Arkle's office.
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Donglss, woman VINO haa been EN-
ployed as a nurse at the 1nRrmary at tn
. time the BODY was stolen. and at tn
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stltnEon' sne salo: L i've ABOUT thret
miles west OF Bridgeport, on the Nationa
road. with my father and mother: / wa
emniovoJ 40 a nr,oo ~ tbo Tns,n, a., =,
IA4ptoyeN - ,non 0s @s sue 4D.ty , =, =.
January 10, 1eSV, and was there til
| April l, 1901. Taylor Foreman wa
Superintendent; / saw DR.. Pipes at the
Infrmary three times while was there
he was there once on Sunday with an
other man; he went at once Il
the hospital with Taylor Foreman
he only stayed few minutes; he anC
Foreman were in the room with the
corpse the evening Watsbecker died
Foreman told me that the corpse had tG
be held to give Mrs. Watsbecker
chance to take it away II she cared to
the next day she called and looked at the
corpse and said that she was not able to
pay for funeral; she took lock Of
bis hair and left for town; Foreman
came in later and said that Or. Pipes
would take the body; l asked II he could
come out on the motor, and he said he
would come in wagon: he and DR..
Pipes came into the hospital at 1850; ;
DR.. Pipes came out on the motor; l
asked him II he was going to take the
body, and he replied that he was not;
he went back to the Grove hurriedly,
and went in on the same motor on
which he came out.
That night heard a wagon on the
road near the hospital where | slept; l
was up at the time; it was about II 80 p.
m. there were three others in the room
at the time; William Branstroup, Mr..
Creighton and my cousin, Miss Shane,
OF Elm Grove; We were playing casino
1t was not unusual for US to spend the
evenings together In my room; the
wagon went past the hospital aud
stopped at the entrance OF the cemetery !;
| do not know whether anyone was in
the grounds or not.
Captain Dovener then took the wit
ness and asked her il she had not lived
in Columbus, Ohio. She replied that
she had, aud detailed the time at which
she had gone there aud the way she
lived. Captain Dovener then read a
letter from someone at Elm Grove 10 the
Columbus SuHduy Capital in which the
writer said that her husband had aban.
doned her aud that she was then work
ing as a nurse at Elm Grove in hospi-
tai. This letter was read for the pur.
pose OF showing that the writer was a
married woman and that ii she was
Miss Douglas she had been going under
an assumed name, The Captain asked
Miss Douglas If she was not the author
OF the letter, meaning to chow that she
was not sailing under her true colors and
that her testimony might be impeached
in that way, but she denied 1t. There
was considerable talk between her and
Captain Dovener about whether she was
single or married, but 1t had no partlcu-
lar bearing on the case.
John Koch, County Commissioner
and q member OF the Committee on
Poof houee ana Farm, was called. He
said that the only reason that Foreman
had ever given him for wanting the
woman Douglas dismissed, was that
she and his wife had had a aquarrel and
they did not get along wei! together.
This the Commissioners did not think
sufficient cause for her dismissal, so long
as she did her duties well. Foreman had
once said to the witness that he had
doubts as to her name being Douglas.
Taylor Foreman was then placed upon
the stand as a witness. He said: Twas
Superintendent OF the Ohio County In
tirmary from April ], 1889, to April l,
1891. never at any time while was
Superintendent OF the 1ntrmary, before
or since, assisted, arranged for or per.
mitted any body TO be taken from the
cemetery OF the 1ntirmary, illegally; no
such conversation as has been detailed
here was ever had by me with DR.. John
K. Pipes or any one else.