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

DAVID +. Mccarthy. a sugar sampler
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
believe that his mother was dubbed to
death.
II took her to the hospital on April g."
he says, land when I called to see her
on the two subsequent Sundays I 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 l could
not understand at the time, but which
now seems clear enough. they would not
permit me to share this privilege.
mother had died the day before. To
my surprise. when again called at the
hospital, | was not allowed to see my
poor mothers body. DIR. John A.. Ar
hospital, told me that the rule prescribed
that nobody should see the lead until
the undertaken had prepared them for
burial
"'but she was. my mother!'. I ex-
claimed, and l know that this rule,
like the one relating to the quarantine.
is not always enforced. You certainly
won't enforce it in the case Of a man
who comes to see the dead body of his
mother
Well. / can't allow you to see IT, re-
piled DIR. Arnold. Mccarthy states.
II returned later hat same day with
eight friends and Undertaken Matthews.
OF Hamilton avenue and Coles street.
TIL body had by that time been pre-
permitted to gaze upon its face.
what / saw struck me speechless.
The left eye was blackened and swollen.
the mouth was distorted out Of shape,
and looked as If the jaw-bone had been
broken, and on the face there was a
general expression OF agony. My
clusion from all this; namely. that my
mother had been beaten to death in
the hospital"
When THE Evening World reporter
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, 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
against a chair that stood beside her
the day after it happened. AS far as l
could Judge the blow on the eye did not
amount to much"
When told what the physician in
charge had said, Mccarthy exclaimed:
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"
ag The reR This ti nailed pp at ATno hlSpsP wsI
in. He was very anable, and showed
great readiness in placing the records
at the service of the reporter.
The doctor in charge here yesterday"
said the reporter, stated that Mrs. Nc
Carthy was brought here with her
daughter; that they were both de
the insane asylum and Mrs. Mccarthy
detained in the insane reception ward
for observation, and that, while there,
she Jumped from her bed and. in that
Perfectly correct replied DR.. Ar
mold.
But Mccarthy says that his mother
last thirty years." aueried the reporter.
ooh, yes" said Dr. 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.
1.-THE whole affair." he added, 'Is
really absurd. If any brutality had oc-
CURED here l would not wait for an
outsider to make complaint. l would be
the first to sift the matter in order to
get at the truth and punish the offender.
The woman's eye was only n little dis
colored from the fall, and her mouth
was a trifle 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 n teapot. l n not
ordered an investigation because I
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 subordinates to go unpublished.
Mccarthy says he Is going to try to
have the body exhumed and examined;
and II 1t Is found that his suspicious
are justified, he says he will lay the
matter before the District-Attorney.
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