Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-09
WATERLOO DOCTORS EXPLAIN.
Case of William Englekey Who Was
Taken to a Chicago Hospital.

Case of William Eng1ekey Who Was
Taken to Chicago Hospital.
from The Milwaukee Sentinel
WATERLOO, September Sin some
of the Chicago papers yesterday APP
peared sensational article stating that
Drs. Torpy and Davies, of this city, had
caused the incarceration in the Insane
asylum of William Englekey, under
very peculiar and sensational circum-
stances. After careful investigation
of the facts in the case leading up to
this charge, the following facts were
cleaned: On Friday, August 7, word
was brought to DR.. L. G.. Torpy, at his
office in this city, that one William
Engelkey, living on what is known as
the Island, about four miles from the
city, had cut his throat and was dying
and that medical aid was needed i'm
mediately. DR.. Torpy summoned DIR.
@. w. Davies and together they went
to the mans home, where they found
him sitting in his kitchen with his
windpipe and gullet both cut trans
versely but the main arteries on either
side of his neck had not been touched.
Upon consultation of the two doctors,
it was decided that the only way to
save the mans life was to take him to
Chicago, and DIR. Torpy Immediately
proceeded there with him. Upon arrival
he was placed in the Augustana hospi-
tai at $50 Cleveland avenue, where he
was treated by DR.. F. r. Sherwood.
Upon arrival at the hospital they would
not receive the patient unless DR..
Torpy would guarantee the entire ex-
pense of medical attendance. After
turning his patient over to the hospital,
DR.. Torpy came home, and in about
three days received a telegram from
the hospital, stating that unless the
patients expenses were paid be would
be turned over to the City hospital,
and upon receipt of this telegram DIR.
Torpy went to Chicago immediately
and satisfied the hospital management
in regard to the charges. DR.. Torpy
then returned home.
The man Englekey and his wife had
some family trouble. and she had left
him ust before be made an endeayor
to end his life. After DR.. Torpy re-
turned home he, together with his at
torney, went out and saw Mrs. Engle-
key and prevailed upon her to sign
some notes secured BY mortgage upon
their farm to pay the expenses con-
nected with her husbands care and
medical attendance, which act the lady
| did without any coercion. After Sc
curing the wife's signature, DR.. Torpy
went to Chicago and Englekey was
! only too willing to sign the notes and
mortgages securing the doctors against
any loss. Englekey having so far re-
covered as to deem his removal from
! the hospital expedient, DR.. Torpy went
to Chicago last Monday after him.
! The strange actions of the man, to-
! gether with his wild utterances, had
made the doctors attending him con-
| slider him insane, and when DR.. Torpy
| brought him back he took him to JEFF
| ferson, the county seat of this county
and be was taken before DR.. w. W.
| Reed, practitioner for years, for ex-
animation, and upon his recommended
ton Judge Grimm, of the county court,
| committed him to the Northern Hospi-
tai for the Insane at Oshkosh. The peo-
| pie in the neighborhood where En-
glekey lived all consider him more
or less demented, although be was
never considered to be wholly insane
The story as printed in the Chicago
papers does a great injustice to Drs
Torpy and Dayles, who are young ply
sicians here.