St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-05
The CHARGES Preferred

Quinn, was yesterday dismissed by the
state board of medical examiners.
The Charges Preferred
against the doctor were of the most
damaging sort. could they be sustained,
and the fact that the board acquitted
the accused, not upon the motion of the
defendants attorney. but upon the
motion of the members of the board
tSel . and that before all the evidence
lnaU the defense was prepared to intro
duce had been submitted, places the
doctor in good position to bring action
for malicious prosecution, it is said. DR..
Livingstone was charged with immoral
practices, with the seduction of women,
with habitual drunkenness and cuSSed-
ness of every sort. The evidence, how
ever, failed utterly to sustain the
charge. Still, there was some pretty
warm testimony. For instance, George
Danberg, of Wells, gave evidence that
he had overheard a great deal of bad
talk on the part of the accused. He had
heard, he said, the doctor say that
Nh. Joyce, who occupies an office in the
same block that the doctor occupied,
had produced an abortoin upon girl
with instruments that belonged to the
doctor. Moreover, the witness testified
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owed him S225 for treatment for a vile
disease. This was all supplemented BY
a mass of dispositions that would fill the
broadside of newspaper to reproduce.
William Domes swore that he had
often seen Dr.. Livingstone drunk and
disorderly. He testified in an eager
way. and was Scathingly croSs-eXam-
ined by Lawyer Townley. Witness
said that he mad heard the defendant
threaten to shoot people, and say that
he had no scruple
To Shoot and Kill
any one that he did not like. Proceed
ing in this vein, the witness testified
that he had often heard Dr.. Livingston
boast OF criminal intimacy with the
women of Wells. Some time last June
or July, proceeded the witness, Dr.. Liv-
ingStOne became involved in an imbrog-
lilo while playing game OF cinch, and
the doctor in great rage t1OuriShed a
loaded revolver and threatened to eX-
terminate the whole party. E. w. Nor
gan, merchant of Wells. also had
bitter tale to relate. He said that the
doctor had at one time become so no.
toriouS that the witness had ordered
him to keep out of his store. Charles
Bruder owns hotel at Wells. He was
placed on the stand to show that the de-
PENDANT had given one John Brown, an
inebriate upon whose account all the
salo0nkeepers of the village had been
notified officially not to sell or give
him liquor-that the accused bad given
this Brown prescription for one ounce
of whisky. This witness, however, con-
coded that the doctor had said not to
give more than the ounce. At this
juncture the doctor himself was placed
OH the witness stand. He proceeded
from item to item, and denied all the
damaging things that had been sworn
to on the part of the state. He had
sold out his practice because of ill
health and had prepared to remove with
his family to Los Angeles, and these
proceedings had been brought against
him while in that city by service upon
his wife. He Immediately returned
and prepared his defense. The doctor
acknowledged that Mr.. Joyce had
Used His Instruments
to produce all abortion, but he strenu-
ouslY denied that ii was done with his
consent or knowledge. He testified
that he had never been intoxicated in
his life and that he had never been ad-
dicted tOthe immoderate use of liquor
of any kind, although at one time, or
during the political campaign of two
years ago, in which he took an active
part, he occasionally, for policy sake,
took drink. He opposed the election
of Mr.. Quinn as county attorney, and
that was the whole animus of the prose-
cution, he said. He denied having had
criminal relations with any woman, but
he swore that this Mr.. Joyce had been
criminally intimate with a woman in
Chicago when the witness and Joyce
were there. This occurred in the Gault
house in October. The witness then
continued to deny all the naughty
things that had been said about him and
a score or so of witnesses, among whom
were Senator Wilkinson, DR.. Fellows, a
rival practitioner; Col. Polleys, Hon. c.
S. Dunbar, a. j. Parks and others all
testified to the unblemished character
of the accused. They had all known
him Intimately, and they had seen him
daily for years and not one had ever
seen him under the influence of liquor.
More than this, they considered him
moral and upright citizen. The case
was dismissed.