Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-23
EVIDENCE OF CRIME.
4 Boston Inspector Has Followed Up the
Record Of Or. Clarke.

Boston, Aug. 22.-Another case agains,
one member of the Drs Hill and Clarke
firm, whose "sanitarium'' on fremont
street has figured in police matters of late,
has been brought to light by the work of
, Inspector McCausland
The body of woman buried in Mt.
Hope cemetery ON June % has been ex-
humed, an autopsy held, and the fact dis
covered tlsi. the death certificate filed with
the board of health fails to state the cor
rect cause Of death.
The woman's name was Mary A. &c
Donald, age 40, and her home was in VIM
chendon. DIR. Robert A. Clarke, alias R.
A. Monroe, who is now under arrest on
the charge Of having performed q GRIM
inal operation on the woman named
ingalls,, is charged with the crime, and
was yesterday taken from the Charles
street Jail on a habeas corpus and ar
raigncd in court. He was held in $1,000
for hearing next Thursday.
About one week ago, Clarke was placed
under arrest with DIR. Hill, alias Wilson
for performing an operation on the ingalls,
woman. Both were arraigncd and held in
5000 bail on that charge. 1t appears that
since their arrest the woman has suf-
ficiently recovered so that at the present
time she is out of danger.
Her story, however, set the police to
work, and Inspectors McCausland and
Burke began and have prosecuted
Most Thorough Investigation.
In searching the house on fremont street,
which the doctors had used as q hospital
they discovered a number of letters and
papers relating to the business of the doc
tors. Among them was one referring to
an alleged operation performed on Jennie
Norcross Of Winchcndon, who was known
az Mary Mcdonald.
The inspectors learned that this woman
had left the doctors house and gone to
another house on fremont street, where
she was taken suddenly ill the following
day.
A well-known South End physician was
summoned, and he, knowing nothing
about the operation and detecting symp
toms of neuralgia of tho heart prescribed
for her accordingly.
She died, however, within half an hour,
and the physician gave hcart disease" as
the cause Of death in the death ccrtifi-
cate. Her name was given tohim as Mary
Mcdonald, and the undcrtaker's certifi-
cHtc WIS 1latlc OUT III UIle same name.
When Inspectors McCausland and Burke,
however, visited Winchendon, Mass,
they learned that the woman's name was
Norcross, and it is charged that Augustus
Il. Blgelow, Il resident Of that town; knew
Of her visit TO Boston He will be sum
moncd as d
Witness Against the Doctors.
Upon tho return of the inspectors to
Boston they had the woman's body ex-
humed and an autopsy was made by Med
ical Examiner Draper revealing the fact
TINT death had been caused by criminal
operation.
On the morning Of June Is fire was
discovered in the upper floor of the house
occupied by the doctors, and after it was
extinguishcd the body of u woman was
found on the floor. She was taken to the
city hospital morgue and identified as
Jennie l.. Gunnison, single, aged 35
She was buried and nothing more was
thought of the case until the arrest Of the
doctors.
Then the inspectors made n thorough in
vestigation Of this case, and DIR. Draper
performed an autopsy, but there was no
evidence to show that an operation had
been performed on her