The sun., 1895-03-29
LORETTA HATNIGAN INQUEST.
A Coroner's Jury says She Died OF Nal.
practice, but ISlames No One.


Coroner Hoebcr held yesterday an inquest in
the case of Loretta Hannigan. who died of an
operation at her home at 4O3 West Fifty-ffth
street Oh March %. Solomon Ii. Mann OF 43l
Fifth avenue. who. she had said, betraye ed her
was in court He defended by Lawyer
Howe. De i.ancey Nicoll appeared for Dr. Henry
b. Pettiugil OF 127 West Thirty-cighth street.
who was rearvested by Judge Fitzgerald yester-
day on charge of manslaughter. DIR. Pettin-
gill sat throughout the proceedings in Coroner
Hoebers private Office, in company with Mrs.
Hughes, who, it was said, gave Miss Hannigan
q box of pills before she visited DR.. Pettingill.
The dead girls mother occupied chair in
corner of the room and cried silently while the
inquest lasted. The jury WAS composed of Will
Psrkin;;;; Herman 4; o;Ssill; Wilma d smith.
and Dr. samuel Aleltzer. In their verdict.
they declared that Miss lIanngan had come to
her death from general septicHnia. which.
have been caused by a. operation Neither the
nameot solomon II Mann nor that OF pr; Pet
be considered by the Grand Jury.
Coroner Hocber on beginning tho inqucst read
the girls ante-;nortem statement, rs he said no
one else in the room could read his handwriting.
Deputy Coroner Huber was first put on tho
topsy The girl, he found, had d ieL of endome.
tritis. peritonitis and double pleurisy, caused
not lie was unable to say. In his examination
he said that the autopsy revealed that medicines
had not been used.
effects arc produced by many different causes"
Dr. Huber testified that tie girls lungs were
in n bad condition and tnnt plcurisy must have
existed flon, four to six weeks
The microscopic examination proved the re-
suits obtnined in tho autopsy. and added but
little 70 the value or the witnesses testimony.
AT the close Of Dr. Huber's testimony, Assist
ant District Attorney DAVIS wished to submit
fence objected vigorously. Mr. Nicoll pointed
out section in the Penal Code which says tho
One Of the Jurors cut tho tnngle by asking that
DR.. ustn, tho family physlc,an, be put on the
stand: nr, Austin tod IN detail The history OF
believed had died OF septic perit itonitis, but he
could not sny that she was tho victim of n GRIM
inal operation. In his treatment OF the ease he
had not prescribed for pcurisy. and did not
know. until after her death, that she had suffered
from aIinhammAiion Of the pleura.
ods used by Coroner He Der when king the two
ante mortcm statements, and of his other rea-
rs m H M M ae . sni the er
the defence koaded the witness on
DR., Malcolm Mel can. who was called in by
dencc of blood poisoning in lhe case, and that
Miss linnnignns death YVES due TO malpractice.
Assistant District Attorney Davis again desired
and Howe threshed over the same arguments
used In the first instance.
the case, and Mr.. Nicoll said 1t was illegal. Dr.
Iloeber called on Coroner Fitzpatrick for ad-
vice Coroner Fitzpatrick told him, him to sub.
nit tho case TO the Jury. MIR. Nicoll said ho
magistrates court, the right had been de;
wished TO put DR.. Weston on the stand. After
some hesitation tho Coroner closed the case,
and the jury brought in its verdict, given above.