The evening world., 1894-05-03
SAYS HIS MOTHER WAS BEATEN
Mccarthy Thinks She Was
Olubbed to Death in a Hospital.
May Make Charges Against the
Kings County Institution.

for commission merchants, who lives at
2 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. makes
grave charges against the Kings County
Hospital at Flatbust. In connection with
the death OF his mother, Margaret Nc
Carthy, which occurred there April 20
last.
Mccarthy says that he has reason to
believs that his mother was dubbed to
death.
IT took her to the hospital on April g."
he says. land whe1 l called to see her
on the two subsequent Sundays l was
denied admission. The reason assigned
for this was that the patients were
quarantined on account Of smallpox.
Other visitors, however, were admitted.
and I learned that the quarantine rule
was never enforced in the case Of rela-
tives. But for some reason which I could
not understand at the time. but which
permit me to share this privilege.
"On April q / received notice that my
mother had died the day before. To
my surprise. when again called at the
poor mothers body. DR.. John A. Ar
mold, the medical superintendent OF the
hospital, told me that the rule prescribed
that nobody, should see the dead until
the undertaken had prepared them FOR
tnrial
"'but she was my mother! I ex-
claimed. a l know that this rule.
like the one relating to the quarantine,
won't enforce 1t in the case of a man
who comes to see the dead body OF his
m !? her oan,, allow vo,, 70 see T.. rs-
piled DIR. Arnold, Mccarthy states.
II returned later that same day with
eight friends and Undertaken Matthews.
The body had by that time been pre-
pared. and my companions and I were
permitted to gaze upon its face.
What saw struck me speeches..
the mouth was distorted out Of shape,
and looked az If the jaw-bone had been
broken, and on the face there was a
frieeds and edfP T eouid drs of o aE9n ONE co my
clusion from all this; namely. that my
the hospital"
called at the hospital yesterday supt.
Arnold was not in. The physician in
charge, however, said hat Mrs. Nc
Carthy was insane when taken to the
She and her daughter we're broYgh.
was removed to the insane asylum at
the insane reception, ward for obserya-
ton. Her mind wandered and she spoke
in a rambling, often incoherent. way.
Sometimes she grew violent bou Rur tme
weeks before her death she leaped from
her bed and fell face downward to the
floor. In falling she struck her eye
bed. My attention vas called to this
the day after it happened. AS far as
could Judge the blow on the eye did not
When told what the physician ir
why. my mother lost her. only daugh'
ter thirty years ago. And as for my
entered the hospital, nor had she at any
time shown signs Of insanity"
The reporter called at the hospital
IN. He was very arabie. and showed
great readiness. In placing the records
at the service OF the reporter.
said the reporter. stated that Mrs. Nc
daughter. that they were both de.
the Insane asylum and Mrs. Mccarthy
detained in the insane reception ware
for observation. and that, while there
she Jumped from her bed and, in tha'
"Perfectly correct" replied DR.. Ar,
"But Mccarthy says that his mothe,
last thirty fyo ye a r ssS!"e aueried ht the re spe ter
"Oh. yes said Dr.. Arnold. II forgo'
to say that the doctor who spoke t.
you yesterday got Mrs. Mccarthy nike
up with nothe patient, but as for thu
insanity part n her having hurt he
eye by jumping from her bed. thes,
statements are correct.
The whole affair" he added. II!
really absurd II any brutality had oc
CURED here I would not wait for ar
outsider to make complaint. / would b,
the first to sift the matter in order tt
get at the truth and punish the offender
The woman's eye was only, a little dis
colored from the fall, and her moutf
was a trine crooked. as the natural re
suit OF the rigidity OF death. Our nurse,
have been with us for years and hav,
always proved themselves not only
efficient. but courteous. 1t all amount!
to a tempest in a teapot. ] have no
ordered an investigation because
deem the whole affair too trifiine."
At the Office Of the Commissioner Of
Charities and Correction, Chief Clerl
Joseph Short, jr., said that nc complain
had yet been made there. He expressed
himself as convinced that DR.. Arnold
was too strict a d~isclplinarian to per
NIT any act of brutality on the part O.
his subordinates to go unpublished.
Mccarthy says he Is going to try Il
have the body exhumed and examined
n II II Is found that his suspicion'
are justified, he says he will lay TIL
matter before the District-Attorney.