The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-30
PHYSICIANS ON THE STAND
AT YA UGH4NlHEARING
 LAST NIGHT.

and Dr. E. l.. R. Thomson-Evidence
 as to the Character of Mrs. vaughn's
 House-Hearing VIII Continue To-
 night.
 The hearing on the Vaughan appli- plication was continued in the common pleas court room before the board of health last night. MT. Goodhart attor- ney for Mrs. Vaughan, continued read ing the testimony of Policeman Phelps before the police investigation in 1894, which was interrupted at the previous session by adjournment, and at it's con- clusion asked MT Phelps if that was his testimony. MT. Phelps refused to answer any questions until he had been given opportunity to make a statement. The opportunity was given and he made about the same statement as that made by him at the police investiga- tion, already published in part.
 Dr. Ruickholdt was next called to the stand. He stated that he had known Mrs. Vaughan for about five to seven years. He said that he was call ed to Mrs. Vaughans house in 1885 to attend confinement case. He said that the father and mother of the girl confined were there, or at least that persons there had told him that they were her father and mother, and that their name was Smyth and that they lived in Boston. He said that he was at Mrs. Vaughan's ten or twelve times and never saw any improper conduct on the part of Mrs. Vaughan or occu- pants of her house. So far as he re- membered the house was a quiet, de- cent place, and Mrs Vaughan was a good nurse. On cross examination he said that the parents of the girl had told him that the father of the child lived in Boston.
 Dr. Vishno was next called. He said that he was called to attend conflne- ment case at Mrs. Vaughans five or six years ago, that the woman was married and that her husband was there with her. He said that he had never seen any indecent or immoral conduct on the part of Mrs. Vaughan or occupants of her house. He said Mrs. Vaughan seemed to be good nurse and gave evidence of being exceptional ly well qualified to care for confinement cases. On cross examination he said that he had no personal knowledge of the people who told him that they were husband and wife the couple at Mrs. Vaughan's hase, and that the case of confinement was an ordinary case, calling for nothing more than ordinary care. He later remembered another case of confinement which he had at tended at Mrs. Vaughan's and the wo- man was married. He knew the people to be respectable and had attended the woman in confinement once since.
 Dr. Frank H. Wheeler was next call- ed. He had made professional visits to Mrs Vaughan's house on Stevens street, and also to the house on Pros pect Place. The first time he called at her house he went to examine Mrs. Vaughan for a life insurance company, with which she desired to be insured, and a month or two later he called to examine her for another insurance company. He had also attended a. case of sickness there, person i'll with chills and fever. He had been called to Prospect Place two or three times to see Mrs. Vaughans son, when he was i'll. He said that he never saw anything indecent or immoral about Mrs Vaughan's or her house, and the impression he gained of the house was about the same that he would have of any ordinary private home. He said that he had examined Mrs. Vaughan by request of the insurance company as to her moral fitness as person on whom it was safe to take @ life insur- ance risk He said that the risk was not accepted because of her family his- tory. Mrs. Vaughan had nursed cases of confinement that he had attended qualified to conduct a maternity hospi- tal On cross examination he said that one of the two insurance companies for which he examined Mrs. Vaughan was the Hartford Life Annuity and he thought that the other was the Man. haitian Life. He thought that the lat ter was the one that rejected the risk on account of Mrs. Vaughan's family history.
 Dr. G. $. Lamb was next called. He said that he had been acquainted with Mrs. Vaughan since March 1, 1897, and had been to the Stevens street house ten or twelve times, and to the Pros- pect Place house thirty or forty tims; never saw any indecent or im- proper conduct on the part of Mrs. Vaughan or anyone in her house. He said that Mrs. Vaughan's house was al- ways neat. clean, orderly and quiet and he thought that Mrs. Vaughan was an exceptionally good nurse. In re- sponse to question by MT. Goodhart he said that the occasions when Mrs. Vaughan had ridden with him in his carriage were three in number, and on those occasions he had visited pa- tients in Mrs. Vaughan's house, and when he was going away she asked to ride to places in town to which she desired to go, and he had permitted her l to ride as a matter of accommodation to her.
 Mir. Goodhart showed to the witness the report of the birth of a child named Newman Smyth Sommers and asked him to state all the particulars regard ing the making of the certificate of the birth of this child and also of a child