The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-01
OUINTON CAMPBELL DEAD.
Much Mystery Surrounding the Cause
of His Demise.

Captain Quinton Campbell a formerly
we'll known newspaper man of this city
and recently connected with the Inter
Ocean is dead at Chicago. The enron
icIe prints the following regarding the
circumstances attending his death:
An investigation of the death of Cap
tain QuintOn Campbell by the ponce
failed to develop any direct cause as
to the manner in which he sustained
the injuries which ended his life
His friends, however, charge pnysl-
clans at the county hospital with Grim
inal negligence in not receiving him at
the institution when first taken there
by the police and when medical atten-
tiOn might have saved his life.
The victims skull was fractured and
hemorrhage of the brain had resulted
from the injury. A thorough eXami-
nation by the receiving physicians at
the hospital would have determined
This fact but he was refused admit
tance after casual scrutiny of his con-
ditiOn.
Little light has been shed upon the
manner in which the injury was sus-
tanned Friends of the dead man be
lieve that he may have been assaulted
and thrown into the area where he was
found by a policeman. He was seen
an hour before by friends who say he
was not intoxicated
When the news of his death was re-
DOrted to the coroner he Immediately
ordered the police to make a thorough
investigation of the case, and at the
same time instructed Coroner's Physi-
clan Noel to hold post mOrtem eXan1-
nation of the remains. ThlS was done
and it resulted in a verdict that death
had been caused by fracture of the
skull and hemOrrhage of the brain
brought on by external violence. When
Coroner Berz learned of the verdict he
Immediately postponed the inquest and
ordered the police to make further
investigation Of Captain CampbelPs
death.
Oficer Mcdowell of the lake front
police station was detailed to make this
investigation and he submitted his re-
port. It was to the effect that Camp
bell had fallen into the basement of the
Waukesha saloon at 80 Washington
street. where Mcdowell found him He
took the injured man to the Harrison
street police station, from where he was
ordered to convey him to the county
hospital and the authorities there re-
fused to receive him. He then brought
Captain Campbell back to the Harrison
street station, where he left him under
the impression that he was to be
placed in a cell on a charge of disor-
derby conduct.
The following day Mcdowell went to
the Harrison police court and then
learned that Campbell was at the cOun-
ty hospital The charge was dismissed
and Mcdowell says he knows nothing
further of the case The policeman
says that Captain Campbell was suf-
fering from an indispOsitiOn, but makes
no mention in his report of the frac-
tured skull which the coroner's physi-
clan reported in his autopsy.
The authorities of the hospital seem
to be equally ignorant of the injury.
although DR. Noel is of the opinion that
such wound should have been appar-
ent to a competent physician.
In this condition the police have ap-
parently dropped the case and a def
mite statement as to how Captain
Campbell met his death will only be
made after the coroner has held an in
quest
At the county hospital the clerk in
charge professed ignorance of details.
He did not even know the name of the
physician or interne. so he said, who