Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-10
THE NEsBIT TRAGEDY.

Coroner MIX Finds That pr. Pulford
 is Criminally Responsible for Miss
 Nesbil's Death-Dr. Palford and
 Burgess Deny Any Compl1c1ty With
 the Crime-The Doctors Trial to
 Take Place Wednesday-HisS Son, Dr.
 PuIford of Ohio, will Not Settle in
 Ansonia.
 The investigation into the cause of the death of Nellie Nesbit by Coroner Mix and the authorities has been practically com pleted and the finding in the case turned over to State Attorney Doolittle. But little more remains to be done until after the preliminary hearing of Dr. Pulford which takes place in Ansonia Wednesday morning. It is not probable that any further arrests will be made,- but 1t is by no means certain until after the hearing.
 Coroner Mix has filed with State At torney Doolittle his report in the case of Nellie Nesbit who died in Ansonis, July 5, from the effects of criminal operation alleged to have been made by Dr. W. E. Pulford. The report is ss follows:
 complained of not feeling we'll. June 27, 1893, she requested Tristan Burgess, a young man who boarded at the house and who was a friend of hers, to take her to New Haven for 8 ride. Burgess hired team and they drove to New Haven.
 While on the way Helen informed Bur gess that she was in trouble and that she had been to Dr. W. H. Pulford of Ansonia, Conn.,, and he had performed an operation upon her, and that she was going to New Haven to be nurzed for few days. 1- I,L S,l, written the direction she was to observe in order to arrive at the house where she was to go.
 This paper, she stated, Dr. Pulford had given her. Burgess drove according to her direction to certain bridge in Vest vile where she stated she wanted him to leave her. She got out and went up the street and to the house of Mary E, Ellis, on Gilbert street, Westville. Burgess watched her and saw her enter the house. Upon the return of Burgess to his board ing place, he informed Helen's mother as Helen had directed him to do, that he had tended ball game and he had had then driven her to the house of Mrs. McPart- land, a friend of Helen's where she would stay few days. While Helsn was at Mrs. Ellis house she was cared for by Mrs. Ellis and was visited by Dr. Pulford and by Burgess. She also saw physician called in by Mrs. Ellis.
 During one of Burgess visits at the | house, Helen stated that three operations | had been performed upon her by pr. Pull | ford by the use of an instrument that hurt her, said operation being performed at his l office in Ansonis.
 | Helen remained in this house until the
 evening of July 4, 1893, when she was
 taken in hack by Dr. Pulford and Mrs Ellis to her mothers home in Ansonia
 She was in dying condition when taken | On her arrival Dr. L. H. Wilmot WAS called to attend her. also Dr.W. H. .Conklin. She
 stated to Dr. Wilmot that she had bsen op
 erated upon, and to Dr. Conklin she made
 8 statement in detail. She died at about
 o'clock a. m. July 5, 1893.
 find that Helen Nesbit's death Wal
 caused by the criminal act of Dr. W. H
 Pulford of Ansonia, Conn.,, in producing
 or endeavoring to produce criminal abor
 ton upon her by the use of some instru
 ment passed into her womb causing peri
 toneal inflammation. I find that said Dr
 W. H. Pulford is erimina1ly responsible
 for the death of Helen Nesbit. | The witnesses are: Dr. M. O.. White
 Christopher B. Donegan of New Havel
 the hack driver, Arthur NJ. Rowe of Ney
 Haven, Dr. E. L R. Thompson, Dr
 Adams, Dr. William H. Conklin, Dr. L H. Wilmot, Mrs. Mary E. Ellis, Tristan
 Burgess.
 pr. Pulford denies that he is in any wa , criminally responsible for the death o
 Miss Nesbit. He says his connection wit the case was simply that ordinarily exist , ing between physician and patient, an emphatically denies having performed an , operation on the girl.
 , Tristan Burgess, the young man who ha been suspected of having been responsibl for the girls condition, says that he Is al , solutely innocent of the charge and had D knowledge that any operation was to t a ! performed. He also says that after th hearing on Wednesday he will make D statement which will completely vindica
 | him ssa