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

David +. Mccarthy, a sugar sample
for commission merchants, who lives a
Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, make
grave charges against the Kings Count!
Hospital at FlatbusN in connection will
the death of his mother, Margaret Nc
Carthy. which occurred there April 2
last.
Mccarthy says that he has reason t
believe that his mother was dubbed t
death.
II took her to the hospital on April g.
he says "and when l called to see hel
on the two subsequent Sundays I wa:
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 coult
not understand at the time, but whict
now seems clear enough. they would no
permit me to share this privilege.
On April q | received notice that my
mother had died the day before. Tc
hospital. | was not allowed to see my
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 lead until
burial
But she was my mother!, I ex-
claimed, and I know hat this rule,
like the one relating to the quarantine.
is not always enforced. You certainly
won't enforce 1t in the case of a man
h comes to see the dead body of his
MOTHER
We'll, / can't allow you to see it, re-
piled DIR. Arnold, Mccarthy states.
7 returned later that same day with
eight friends and Undertaken Matthews,
OF Hamilton venue and Coles street.
The body had by that time been pre-
pared, and my companions and l were
permitted to gaze upon its face.
The left eye was blackened and swollen
the mouth was distorted out of shape
and looked as If the jaw-bone had beer
broken: and on the face there was q
friends and / could draw only one con.
clusion from all this: namely, that my
mo t had been beaten to death in
When The Evening World reporter
called at the hospital yesterday Supt.
Arnold was not IN. The physician in
charge, however, said that Mrs. Nc
Carthy was insane when taken to the
She and her daughter were brought
here together he said. THE daughter
was removed to the insane asylum at
once fs While Mrs: Mccarthy was kept in
ton. Her mind wandered and she spoke
In a rambling, often incoherent; way.
Sometimes she grew violent. DURING
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 was called to this
the day after it happened. AS far as |
could Judge the blow on the eye did not
amount to much"
Whom told uvhof tho Dhyyctoior ~
charge had said, Mccarthy exclaimed
Why, my mother lost her only daugh-
ter thirty years ago. And as for, my
mothers insanity, there Is nc truth in
it.. She was perfectly sane when she
entered the hospital. nor had she at any
time shown signs of insanity"
ag The reporter Pert called nr at the hospital
In. He was very affable. n 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-
mented; that the daughter was sent to
detained in the insane reception ward
for observation, and that, while there,
she jumped from her bed and. in that
way aSer l9F5sElsd 6 her eye" rsn,,sd nr A.
mold.
But Mccarthy says that his mother
hadn't had a daughter living for the
last thirty years." queried the reporter.
"Oh, yes" said DIR. Arnold, II forgot
to say that the doctor who spoke to
you yesterday got Mrs. Mccarthy mixed
up with another patient, but as for the
insanity part and her having hurt her
eye by jumping from her bed, these
statements are correct.
THE whole affair."" he added, "is
really absurd. If any brutality had oc-
Cured here 1 would not wait for an
outsider to maxi complaint. l would be
the first to sift the matter in order to
get at the truth and punish the offender.
The woman eye was only a little dis
colored from the fall, and her mouth
was a trif1e crooked, as the natural re-
suit Of the rigidity OF death. Our nurses
have been with us for years and have
always proved themselves not only
efficient. but courteous. 1t all amounts
to a tempest in a teapot. / have not
ordered an Investigation because
deem the whole affair too 'trifing."
At the office of the Commissioner Of
Charities and Correction. Chief Clerk
Joseph Short, jr.. said that no complaint
had yet been made there. He expressed
himself as convinced that DIR. Arnold
was too strict a disciplinarian to per-
init any act of brutality on the part Of
his ubordinates to go unpublished.
Mccarthy says he Is going to try to
have the body exhumed and examined;
and II II is our that his suspicious
are justified, he says he will lay the
matter before the District-Attorney.
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