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and after learning said she wanted the
nurse to take charge of her S15

| and after learning said she wanted the
| nurse to take charge of her SIS.
Then the nurse, under the cross QueS-
tioning OF the coroner and detectives,
contradicted many of Hastings most
! positive assertions about his treatment
and the conduct of the patient the most
| important of which bore on the use OF
certain instruments and the symptoms
of fever. Witness had repeatedly asked
the patient to disclose her name and adj
dress, but was always met by a refusal
That was the only suspicious thing the
! witness saw about the girl. When ques-
toned closely about the clothing the
girl had worn, the witness said it had
all been sent to a Chinese laundry, but
she did not know which one
witness had urged the girl to write to
her friends and she had done so as
many as three times, but no one came to
see her. The girl semed to be getting
better, up to the day she died and had
walked from one room to another that
same morning.
OTHER EVIDENCE.
Dr. Dora King, the next witness, threw
much light upon the real condition of
this unfortunate girl. Witness said
that on Friday, the 29th ult. between Il
and II a. M, young woman came to her
during heavy rainstorm and asked her
" lltlp HtI Out VI lTOuDie. IN q UOr-
rent of tears the little woman begged
the doctor to help her, saying she was
three months gone. II asked her if she
was married" said the witness, "and
when she said mo- Said you had better
get married to your young man right
away" The woman said to witness
that the man who was responsible for
her condition was not in good enough
circumstances to marry Just now. The
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doctor who said she would relieve her
for 5000, but she could not pay that
much. Witness said she would not have
anything at all to do with the case un-
der any consideration. The little woman
showed to witness a paper containing a
long list of doctors who had been recon-
mended to her as practitioners who
would perform abortions, and witness
saw her own name on the list. The lit
tie woman was in great distress of mind
and when she went away she declared
she would find some one who would help
her.
Witness identified the hat and cape of
the dead girl as the same worn by the
crying woman who had besought her
Illegal aid. The girl had not told wit
ness how much money she had, but said
the man who was responsible for her
condition would see her through her
trouble.
Mary f. Van Ness OF Monrovia, pa
tient Of DR. Hastings, who has been re-
ceiying treatment fer the past two
months for sciatio rheumatism, told
what she saw Of the dead girl the past
two days of the latter's life. Aside from
an evident desire to shield the institu-
ton, her testimony was not particularly
important She was present when the
girl died in the arms of Hastings and
helped in the effort to revive her. a
few minutes before the death, as witness
went to the patients bedside the poor
girl grssped her hand and sobbed:
II wish you were my mother"
To witness the girl said her mother
lived IN San Bernardino but even then
would not tell her name.
This ended the testimony and the jury
deliberated a few minutes. on the case
bringing III a verdict that "the deceased
came to her death by criminal opera
tion performed by some person unknown
to this jury; but we severely condemn
one G. g. Hastings, medical electrician,
for taking and keeping the deceased un-
der his care without notifying the au-
thorities or. trying to communicate with
her parents, relatives or friends
In view of the failure to secure con-
vlction In recent case where a doctor
was charged with committing an abor-
ton, 1t Is thought no criminal action will
be brought against Hastings, and the
incident Is probably closed.
TO BE TAKEN HOME.
Mr.. Hattery will today take the re-
mains of his daughter to San Bernardo
no for burial, The bereaved father does