The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
USED TO ROASTING. 1"
Chambers Street Hosrital Doctors
Show No Change Of Heart
Or. Granny Refused Three Times to
Treat Gu Lawson.
The Latter Was Bleeding Profusely
from a Knife Wound.

Gustave Lawson, n pleasant-faced
German engineer, who boards with Mrs.
Pfennig, at l7g Greenwich street, is the
latest victim OF the brutality which at
times characterzes the conduct of the
cub doctors at Chambers Street Hos.
pital.
.a'vsen is 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 Lawson right
cheek. received during quarrel with
John Ericsson yesterday afternoon.
At go 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 neal
the right eye to the point OF the jay"
IL had been made with IL knife and Was
bleeding freely.
Lawsen says ne was told to sit down
nd wait until doctor came in.
Lawson and his friend waited twenty
minutes, but nobody had come to at
md 10 his wound. He felt that he was
citing weak from loss OF blood. ana be
umlng alarmed, again ASKED the clerh
i G'rtsi nm" said Lawson this morn
ing, 'if the doctors were not paid to at
they were, and l then demanded that my
,JuIiu Je =, uru ~ at oh~G.
II waited ten minutes longer ana tnel
Jr. Granny came in.
"He had been to dinner, he said. ]
vas told to 70 into the operating-room,
and asked my friend Coleman to come
NH M. "a | f.lt
DIR. Gruniy said, He can't go with
,ou, and wnen insisted he shouted,
Get to out of here, then, both of
tou.' We were both hustled out of the
Returning a few minutes later we
were thrown bodily down the steps
again"
vas BILE, ding and he was very weak.
Policeman Lucie, OF the Leonard street
station, noticed the men from across tnt
street. He saw at once that l-awsei
had bad wound, and that he ought IL
He took Lawson into the hospital again
lnl told DR.. Grandy that he must Dc
sonnet ling to stop the flow OF blood. TIL.
rake that man out of here and ge
out yourself"
Lucic lost 10 time In getting Law sen
. the Leonard street station, where h"
stated the case to Sergt. Cosgrove. The
alter Immediately sent out an ambu-
unce call to the Chambers Street Hos
Jital
"The ambulance got here" said Lucie
o-day. "a few minutes later. DR..
iraudy came into the back room where
!.awsCn was sitting in a chair. AS soon
Is he saw who 1t was Or. Grandy threw
Ip his hands and said: why did you
all me? l won't treat that man
Then he turned on his heel ana went
nut
The Sergeant rung up Gouverneur
Hospital and told them 10 send an am
OulanCe as quick as possible.
rive minutes later DR.. Grandy came
back. He was very white and evidently
much excited. He told Sergt. CosgroVe
hat he would attend to Lawson and
set about 1t at once.
ut took eight stitches to sew up the
cash in his face
While he was at work the doctor from
iouyerneur came in and asked what the
trouble was.
Grandy replied that he had had a dis
pute with the patient, and that 1t was
al his own fault. 1T was all right now
lowever, and he would not need any
hep.
Policeman LucIe said that Lawson
was not drunk and was not destroyer
nus. He could see no reason for
irandy's refusal 10 treat Lawson.
At the Chambers Street Hospital to-
lay an Evening World' reporter who
lSked for llr. Grandy was told that the
loctor could ~ be seen.
Does DR.. GltH.y desire to make nc
'tatcmcnt" the reporter asked OF the
NO; he is willing to let 1t go as II
s. The doctors here are so used tc
Getting roasted In the papers that they
ton't mi.Id II any more"