The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-08-24
EVIDENCE OF CRIME
A Boston Inspector Follows Up
DR.. Clarke's Record.

An IncorrecA Certificate of Death Was
Filed-Invesadgation Showed That a Grim.
inal Operation Had Been Performed.
BOSTON, Aug. 22.-Another case against
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 a woman buried in Mt.
Hope cemetery on June 20 has been ex-
humed, 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 woInan's name was Mary A. Nc
Donald age 49, and her home was in Win
phendon. DR.. Robert A. Clarke, alias R.
A. Monroe, who is now under arrest on
the charge of having performed Grim
inal operation on the woman named
ingalls,, is charged with the crime, and
was yesterday taken from the Charles
street jail on habeas corpus and ar
raigned in court He was held in $4,000
for hearing next Thursday.
About one week ago, Clarke was placed
under arrest with DR.. Hill, alias Wilson,
for performing an operation on the ingalls,
woman. Both were arTaigned and held in
$4,000 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 a hospital,
they discovered 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
NWcross Of Winchendon, who was known
as MarA Nc Donald.
The inspectors learned that this woman
had lely the doctors house and gone to
another house on fremont street, where
she was taken suddenly i'll the following
day. - hunm1nnunann -
summoned, and he, knowing nothing
about the operation and detecting symp-
toms of neuralgia Of the heart prescribed
for her accordingly.
CQb ulSu, HOWeVef, WltHLu IftIt du nOttR,
and the physician gave 'heart disease" as
the cause of death in the death certffl-
cate. Her name was given tohiIn as Mary
Mcdonald and the underthkeris certif-
cate was made out in che same name.
When Inspectors MoOausland and Burke
however, visited WinchendOn, Mass,
they learned that the woInan's name was
Norcross, and it is charged that Augustus
e. Bigebw, a resident of that town, knew
Of her visit to Boston. He will be sum-
moned as a ata S
Witness Agafnst the Doctors.
Upon the rsturn of the inspectors to
Boston they had the wornan's body ex-
humed and an autopsy was made by Med
ical Examiner Draper, revealing the fact
that death had been caused by a criminal
operation.
On the morning of June B fire was
discovered in the upper floor Of the house
by the DOCTORS, and after il was
extinguished the body of woman was
found ON the floor She wgs taken to the
city hospital morgne and identified as
Jennie L. Gunuison, 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
vestigation of this case, and DR.. Draper
performed an autopsy, but there was no
evidence to show that an operation had
been performed ON her