Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-28
Wight In A STEW
kruse Conspired With Him 70
ndo" the Committee.
HIS CLERK TELLS The STORY
Showing How the Two Men Tined 20
Swindie, snd Did S~Irdie me City.
Druggist White Explains.

The committee appointed % invest
-aie DR.. Wngnt's alleged maIfeasanee
- ofhce held long meeting yesterday
afternoon IN the committee rooms OF
re city ball, before which appeared sew
fzal witnesses. airs. Sherwood and
s4Fs. Dye, city charges. testified under
-sssh that they were habitual morphine
caters, and that. while city pnyslelan.
N WRIGHT prescribed noTpains for
sasm. PooEmaster Kruse Was sworn.
"a regard 20 seventy OF the persons
Who were receiving medical attend
sncs and medicine. on the books OF
Mite Il White, be- not on the poor
DIRECTORS books. re said ne had gwen
vsTbsl orders. lie claimed the seventy
mentioned were al ne knew anything
about and was somewhat surprised
xa-n the committee produced ninety
additional na mes.
The Clerk is sworn.
Howard MinchIn. the clerk IN the
pe0r directors office, Was also sworn.
al saIc That ne bad seen kTuse and
Neignt drink WHISKY IN the directors
esstce. and also that 10 was customary
20 see lewd and dissclute women hang
rsg about the waiting room OF the city
Ytgy slcian's Office lie said that when
Wright first heard that be was being IN
xsstgated be entered into al agree
Eaent with kruse by which the latter
agreed 10 say that those cases of which
ane committee complained had been
ordered treated by him, and IN accord
aHce with this understanding he IN
sDYucted Minchen 10 take the list and
ssFve the doctor written orders. In some
81 these the services had been rendered
she year before. The clerk entered
4nem in the back part of the
'DpOk so that he could tell
which they were. In the presence of
f1ae clerk this compact was declared to
a. for the purpose OF getting tine best
81 the committee.
krass Was In IL Knee Deep
Kru-e advised the doctor to make
she bills large, and intimated that he
would do the same, as he wanted IL
thoroughly understood that ne would
not listen to the behests of the commit-
tee or any one eIse--he WAS his own
boss and could give the peoples prop
whom ne saw lit. In giving Wright in
structions TO make his bills large,
Krusc told him he would stand
hack OF him. He said that a con-
sDirscy also existed between the doctor
and hruse To obstruct the progress
OF the committee IN making its iuves-
tIgatlon, kruse agreeing to do all IN mis-
power TO checkmate 1t. In telling
Mnehin to give ths doctor orders be
said IL was for the purpose Of putting
HIM IN right light before the commit
tee. Minchin put the seventy names
on the order book, but knew nothing
xbeut them before the doctor copied
them from the list secured by the COM
ulittec from White & White. In regard
20 the ninety additional names he had
never heard krusc give the doctor vei-
hal orders TO treat them or had occa-
son to write them IN the books,
although be knew all those who
were regular city patients. In all there
were 100 persons being treated by the
7Octsr who were not regular city
charges. Minchin thought that kruse
was not q competent man for the posi-
ton OF poormaster and had done many
things which were irregular.
Mr. white Tsstiaes
w. l.. White, of White & Whites
drug store, said that he called the poor
committees attention to the city physi-
rIsn because he thought was
not right. Al certain periods of the
year. when there was no sickness to
speak OF, the bills were about as high
So when there was an epidemic. Many
vcll-dressed people were getting medl-
zine whom he felt sure were not en-
ttlcd to II. Since pr. Kelly took the
Office this class Of people did not come
with prescriptions During the present
month Of January the expense to the
city for medicine would not exceed
Sl25, and 10 was notorious fact that
there had been more sickness than for
years. and many more paupers on sc-
count OF the enlargement of the city.
J4der Or. Wright White n Whites bill
tor January, 1890. was 1888, or SIS
higher than II snouid have been.
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