The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-11

ITO my knowledge no one but the doctor
ever visited the room where the lady was.
This was the first time the doctor ever
rented room for any of MS patients Fart
OF the time he took his meals with me ana
sometimes he slept at my house.
'He left no cards in his room, only some
medicine bottles. There were no pictures
In his room and no physicians dlploma. L
do not know whether he was physician.
"Dr. Beale was dark completed with
dark hair and mustache mixed with gray.
l never heard him called DR.. Haven. He
did not wear his hair in pompadOur.
miss Graham is an old friend OF mine.
She does nothing except help me little.
She has little income of her own.
The doctor told me that the lady did not
wish to see any strangers. Saturday and
His room adjoined that occupied by the
lady. l do not think the doctor has ever
returned since he left Monday afternoon.
THE lady who came there TO visit him,
and whom | thought was his wife, was dark
'complected,' tall and not very heavy. She
never staid there over night"
Witness was dismissed without being
asked whether the woman who called on
the doctor was young or old.
Miss Harriet Elizabeth Graham was the
next witness. She has resided with Mrs.
Smith six months, and says she has known
DR.. Beale only that length OF time.
II think his initials were Ii. G., but do
not know for sure. l know nothing at all
about the doctor, where ne came from or
where he has gone. / never heard him
called DR.. Haven. / had no conversation
with him about the lady.
SUNDAY afternoon | first saw the de-
ceased alive. At the doctors request ] took
her q glass Of water. She drank it and
thanked me, but we had no conversation.
She did not look sick, but was lying n bed.
Monday afternoon Dr. Beale passed me
In the hallway and stopped long enough to
tell me that the lady was dead. The doctor
was excited aud was going out.
Just before that a young gentleman
came 10 the house. he was of medium
height and build. with brown hair and
brown mustache, about IS years old.
II answered the doorDell. The gentle
man asked for the doctor. led him into
the Office AMI asked him to be seated while
l called the doctor. did not see him after
that. He left the house just before the
doctor.
u do not know how the deceased was
dressed. l did not hear any calling nor ex-
preston of pain from the woman. Ny
room is on the same floor only in the rear.
II was not present when deceased came
to the house. DR.. Beale himself took charge
OF her ROOM"
n. Jacobs, the overinuuisItive iuryman,
asked witness whether DR.. Beale were a
man or a woman. He followed this Ques-
ton up with another that under other cir
Gums tances would have been insulting and
which under the existing circumstances
Both Mrs. Smith and Miss Graham ac-
knOwledged having read DIR. Beale's adver-
tisement IN the morning papers, and Mrs.
Smith admitted that one of the sheets of the
bed occupied by deceased was missing.
Then DR.. II. X. Brown was sworn yes
terday morning an agent OF the California
Undertaking Company, accOmpa MED by
Mr. Carroll, the father Of deceased, called
upon me, said the doctor, land asked me
to sign burial certificate for the deceased.
n II hg No hn had 1a.3
her last had left town.
II went to the house on Golden Gate
avenue as soon after that as possible and
asked for Mr.. Carroll The young lady
who opened the dOOr-Miss Graham | after
ward learned her 10 be-said she knew Of
no such person.
Il asked her IL there was not young
lady in the house dead. She SAID yes, and
showed me 10 tie room.
LAS soon as saw the body / became sus-
picious and refused TO give death certif-
cate until the Coroner had been notified,
Il asked great many questions at the
house, but could gain no information at all
about the deceased. l saw her clothes in an
adjoining ROOM"
Police Surgeon R. E Williams. who made
the autopsy. testified that the dece ased died
from the effects of a hemorrhage superin-
duced either by miscarriage or malprac-
tIce
The overinQusitive juror wanted to know
whether the doctor thought the malpractice
was criminal
"All such are criminal" said the doctor.
Ihere were evidences of peritonitis In its
inceptional stages. The other organs were
heaIthy' with The exception that they
showed an enemlc state, due to the systems
being drained of blood. There were no
signs OF instruments having been used"
From the autopsy 1t could not be deter
mined whether malpractice or a miscar-
rlsge from natural causes was responsible
for the fatal hem0rrhage,
Herman Metzler, undertaken, was the
next witness.
His dinner hour, by his own tale, Is u
o'clock noon. shortly after noon on Nom
day a short, thick-set man, with ETayish
hair and mustache and blue eyes, came into
my place Of business and told me he had a
case for me to attend to-" said the under
takeT.
He asked me for blank death certificate,
saying he would fill il out ! handed him
one from the drawer and l then left the
room Tor moment, being called away on
business.
when returned he handed me the GER
tifcate folded just like that"
Here witness produced the identical
plank, and 1t was made a part of tue evil
dence
Being IN hurry at the time and not
thinking but what the certificate was prop-
erly made out put il away in the drawer
without unfolding it.
The stranger appeared to be in a hurry.
and said he had to go to telegraph the
death. de asked ME if | remember the
ADDRESS, and / told him 1t didn't matter,
since II was all in the certificate. He replied
that had better take it down myself to
make sure, So / wrote the address on the
cloth-streteher in my hand.
Then / went right up to the house and
laid out the case. found a young lady
there who said she didn't know anything
about the case. The case was laid on the
bed and dressed only In nightgown. The
young lady helped me and we carried the
case down into the front room.
W hen left told her TO be sure to send
the folks down 20 my Office to make the ar
engagements L went out to the house again
at about 1890 o'clock that evening.
Not tlil II o'clock that night, after had
returned from the house the second time,
did l think to look at the certificate. Ihen
found it blank, just as you see there.
The next morning another undertaken
came TO my office with the father of the
deceased and told me he had charge of the
case. went out to the house AMI put the
away.
II was glad to get out OF that case"
witness thought he could Identify the
person VINO gave him the blank certificate
he also said that the young lady mem
TONED something about DR.. Haven 10 him.
out Just what that something was or how il
came TO be said he could not remember
The young lady" he referred to is Miss
Graham. MISS
Catharine Slattery of Lucher Valley
Sonoma. County, Is the sister OF the he,
reaved father. During the inquest she had
been hurriedly subpenaed to supply the
missing INK as to how the news of the
death reached the family. She could not
supply il. "0'
Nine o'clock Monday night, she said. her
nephew, James McKenns, who also lives at
SonOma, drove over to her house and fold
her that Mary Alice Carroll was dead in the
city and gave the address