The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
USED TO ROASTING. !"
Chambers Street Hospital Doctors
Show No Change Of Heart
Or. Grandy Refused Three Times to
Treat Gustave Lawson.
The Latter Was Bleeding PrOfusely
from q Knife Wound.

Gustave Lawson, a pleasant-faced
German engineer, who boards with Mrs.
Pfennig, at 179 Greenwich street. is the
latest victim of the brutality which at
times racterizes the conduct OF he
cub doctors at Chambers Street Hos
pital.
Lawson IL at his home greatly weak
ened from loss of blood resulting from
the neglect of Dr. Charles Grandy to
sew up a great cash in Lawsen's right
cheek. received during a quarrel with
John Ericsson yesterday afternoon.
At $50 o'clock yesterday, few min
utes after he had received the wound.
Lawson went with friend. Ernest
Coleman, to the Chambers Street Hos
pital and asked the clerk at the desk
to have somebody attend to him. the
cash in his cheek extended from near
the right eye to the point Of the jaw.
1t had been made with Il knife and was
bleeding freely.
Lawson says he was told to sit down
and wait until a doctor came In.
Lawson and his friend waited twenty
minutes, but nobody had come to at
tend to his wound. He felt that he was
getting weak from loss of blood. and be
coming alarmed. again asked the clerk
II Ia asked him. said Lawson this morn
ing. III the doctors were not paid to at.
tend to cases like mine. lie said that
they were, and l then demanded that my
wound be sewed up at once.
II waited ten minutes longer and then
DR.. Grandy came in. :,
He had been to dinner. he said. i
| was told to 20 Into the operatlng-room,
| and asked my friend Coleman to come
with me. as l felt nervous.
"Dr. Grandy said, He can't go with
YOU and when insisted hsrs tb ne both Of
YOU We were both hustled out of the
Returning few minutes later we
were thrown bodily down the steps
All this time Lawson says his wound
was bleeding and he was very weak.
Policeman Lucie Of the Leonard street
station. noticed the men from across the
street. He saw at once that Lawson
had bad wound. and that he ought to
have surgical attendance.
and told DIR. Grandy that he must do
something to stop the now OF blood The
| Doctors reply was:
Take thst man out of here and get
Lucie lost no time in getting Lawson
| to the Leonard street station, where he
| stated the case to Sergt. Cosgrove. The
latter Immediately sent out an ambu-
lance call to the Chambers Street Hos
"The ambulance got here" said Lucie
to-day, "a few minutes later. Dr.
| Grandy came into the back room where
Lawson was sitting In a chair. AS soon
as ne saw who II was DIR. Grandy threw
| up his hands and said: Why did you
call me? won't treat that man
Then he turned on his heel and went
| out
THE Sergeant rung up Gouverneur
Hospital, and told them to send an am
bulance as quick as possible.
| Five minutes later DR.. Grandy came
back. He was very white and evidently
much excited. He told Sergt Cosgrove
| that he would attend to Lawson and
| set about 1t at once.
1T took eight stitches to sew up the
cash In his face"
| While he was at work the doctor from
Gouverneur came in and asked what the
trouble was.
Grandy replied that he had had a dis
pute with the patient, and that 1t was
however. and he would not need any
help.
Policeman Lucie said that Lawson
was not drunk and was not obstreper-
Gus. He could see no reason for
Grandy's refusal to treat Lawson.
At the Chambers Street Hospital to-
day an Evening World" reporter who
asked for Or. Grandy was told that the
doctor could not be seen.
Does DR., Grandy desire to make no
statement" the reporter asked of the
mo: he Is willing to let It 60 as II
Is. The doctors here are so used ia
getting roasted in the papers that they
| don = mind 1t any more"