The herald., 1897-02-24
INSIDE OF HASTINGS DEN
The AbOrtiOnist's Examin-
alton Continued
/ Day OF Startling DISCLOSURES
How Unfortunate Lillian Hattery
Met Her Death
HER LAST LETTER PRODUCED
Miss Horton Gives Some Very Dam.
aging Evidence
tn Workings Of the Infamous System
Fully Exposed
HlsdIcaI Testimony as to the Cause Of Death.
Instruments Introduced as Exhibits.
The Prosecution Will Pr0ba
ably Close Today
How Unfortunate Lillian Hattery
Met Her Death
HER LAST LETTER PRODUCED
Miss Horton Gives Some Very Dam.
aging Evidence
tn Workings Of the Infamous System
Fully Exposed

All day yesterday the preliminary en-
animation of Calvin S. Hastings, the
medical electrician" and his assistant
Or nurse, Mrs N. c. Weaver, charged
with the murder of Lillian Hattery
dragged on in department one of the
police court testimony being taken
slowly owing to the innumerable OBJ
jections interposed by the counsel for
the defense. Hardly question was per-
mitted to be answered without the in
terposition of a lengthy objection, which
in most cases was overruled by the
court, The hearing was taken up at
10:3O am, where it had been left off on
Saturday evening with the direct exam
ination of Miss Alice Horton, who was
employed as an attendant in Hastng $
den during the period that Lillian Hat
terry was an inmate of the place.
A DIRECT ASSERTION
Her testimony was most important
and upon it the prosecution largely de-
pends for the making of its case. By her
the condition of the deceased was
shown from day to day, from the first
time she saw her on Monday morning
February 1st, to the time of her death
late Friday afternoon. The miscarriage
occurred on Monday afternoon about
o'clock, and from then until she expired
she was in the greatest agony. Miss
Horton attended her during nearly the
entire period and gave damaging testi-
mony regarding the application of the
electric battery to the abdomen and back
of the patient, making the direct asser
tion that Hastings performed the abor-
tion upon her.
LARGE PRACTICE
Upon cross examination the witness
was unshaken upon any material point,
giving her answers indelibly stamped
with the impress of truth. While she was
in Hastings place fifteen or twenty
women were given Treatments daily,
the greater number for the purpose of
securing abortion, and she had seen the
doctor" going about from cot to cot in
the place carrying instruments in his
hands which he used upon the different
patients. Nearly all the women came and
went, hut there were during her short
employment four who were confined to
their couches. Two of them were Lillian
Hattery and the colored girl, Fannie
Norris, the names of the other two she
did pot remember, as they had partially
recovered and were moved away.
TROUBLED AND CAREWORN
During the examination Hastings and
Mrs. Weaver occupied seats in the dock
several feet apart and neither spoke to
the other during the proceedings. Con-
finement is beginning to tell upon them
and both looked troubled and eareWern.
Hastings was pale and distraught, pay
ing apparently little attention to what
was passing during the direct examina-
tion of Miss Horton, but when Attorney
Gage took her in hand for cross Ques-
tioHing he frightened up and followed
her testimony with attention. The pro-
ceedings were enlivened periodically
by good natured verbal sparring be-
tween Prosecuting Attorney McComas
and Messrs. Gage and Jones, but the
quips of the attorneys had no effect on
Hastings or Mrs. Weaver, who were not
seen to smile during the entire day.
LILLIAN'S LAST HOURS.
At the opening of court, after the room
had been cleared of all but attorneys,
witnesses, officers and reporters. Alice
Horton was recalled by Mr. McComas.
Upon taking the stand she related how
the battery had been applied by Hast
ings to the body of Lillian Hattery on the
Wednesday following the miscarriage,
he stating that it was used for the pur-
pose of relieving the pain He also gave
her some kind of stimulant, thick,
white liquid, which resembled butter
milk. The battery was applied low down
on the abdomen and back, and was used
but once on that day. Mrs. Weaver as
sisted in the care of the girl, who was in
great pain and soreness in her left side
and abdomen. The patient wore one OF
Hastings numbered night robes, and
was occupying couch in one of the rear
rooms. Hastings told Lillian repeatedly
that she would be all right and Woul1
soon be WELL
On Thursday the condition of the pa
tient had not improved, and the same
treatment was pursued, the battery be-
ing applied as before. Lillian told Hast
ings that the pains We're going down in
her body, to which he replied that that
was just what he wanted. The milky
looking stimulant was again given. On
Friday about 3 o'clock in the afternoon
the patient began to vomit, throwing un
substance resembling thin coffee
grounds, and few hours later died,
THE SHOPS ACCOMPLISHMENTS
In detailing the various articles which
We're used about the place, Miss Horton
said there We're night robes numbered
from Z to 1l5, which We're kept on num-
bered hooks In long closet There
were five rooms in the place reserved for
women, divided into sections by heavy
curtains. each of which concealed a
couch. In one of the ladies' rooms there
We're seven couches; in the gentlemen's
apartment two, in the office two, and two
In the other rooms. Near the head of
each couch, affixed to the wall on a
bracket. was an electric battery, with
wires ready for come ction
Witness had charge of the linen used
and stated that great quantities of
cheesecloth were used as bandages. IT
1t being bought by the bolt as needed.
At this point Mr.. MoComas endeavored
to introduce several pieces of cloth
in evidence, to which the de-
fense strenuously objected, and the
witness was allowed to proceed Mrs.
Weaver cut the cheese cloth up into
pieces about yard and half long by a.
yard wide, and these bandages were
used in abortion cases Nearly all
Hastings patients came to him for this
purpose, and she supposed that he per-
formed the operations Fifteen OF
twenty were treated each day. The,
cash waa generally taken in by Mrs.
Weaver. who collected s1.25 in advance
for each treatment, The nurse receive