Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-08-22
EVIDENCE OF CRIME.
Record of DR.. Clarke Fol.
lowed Up
BY A BOSTON INSPECTOR.
Investigation Show d That Criminal
Operation Had Bee Performed.

BOSTON, Aug. 22.-Another case against
one member of the Drs. Hill and Clarke
firm, whose "sanitarlum" on fremont
street has figured in police matters OF late,
has been brought to light by the work of
Inspector McCausland.
The body Of a woman buried In Mt
Hope cemetery on June e2 has been ex-
huIhed, an autopsy held, and the fact dis
covered that 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. Nc
Donald, age 40, and her home was in Win
chendon. DIR. Robert A. Clarke, alias r.
A. Monroe. who is now under arrest on
the charge OF having performed a orim-
ina operation on the woman named
Ingalls,, Is charged with tho crime, and
was yesterday taken from the Charles.
street jail on q habeas corpus and ar
raigned 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 arraigned and held I'm
$4,000 bail on that charge. 1t appears that
since their arrest the woman has suf-
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 a 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 Winohendon, 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 i'll 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 the heart, prescribed
for her accordingly.
She died, however, within half an hour
and tho physician gave "heart disease" as
the cause Of death In the death oertifi-
cate. Her name was given tohim as Mary
Mcdonald, and the undertakers certif-
cate was made out In the same name.
When Inspectors McCausland and Burke,
however, visited Winchendon, Mass,
they learned that the womdn's name was
Norcross, and 1t is charged that Augustus
K. Plgelow, a resident of that town, knew
Of her visit to Boston. He will be sum
moned as a
Witness Against the Doctors.
Upon the return Of the inspectors TO
Boston they had the woman's body ex-
humed and an autopsy was made by Med
ioal Examiner Draper, revealing the fact
that death had been caused by a criminal
operation.
On tho morning Of June Is FIRE was
discovered in the upper floor Of the house
occupied by the doctors, and after 1t was
extinguished the body Of 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 thorough in
vestigat'on Of this case, and DIR. Draper
performed an autopsy, but there was no
evidence to show that an operation had
been performed on her.