The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13
MOTHER ACCUSES DOCTOR.
,~Rs CARHART'S STORY OF THE
DEATH DE- HER BABY.

x.,,,renco In AdminlaterinR Too Powerful
N.dicInes-The Bnb,'s sunerinrn ana Death.
n- Trumbull w. Cleavcland Of 45 West Fiji.
.n,h s,rco, was arrested yesterday morning on
.,hargc OF manslaughtor in the second degree.
-hjrh was based on the allegation that he had
Ion guilty OF culpablc negligence in prescribing
sodiriue for the infant daughter Of Mr.. and
A.. lanes l.. Carhart. DIR. cleveland was ar
tened before Magistrate Oltnsted in the West
s,dc Police Court, where he waived examinu.
.,or IN the advice of counsel, and was held for
,ho Grand Jury in So, 0 bail. which, later in
tho day, he furnished.
Afr Carhnrt, the father OF the child. is an
,c,or. He lives now at 365 Lexington avenue.
las, spring no was a neighbor of DIR. Cleavoland
In West Fiitirth street. Mrs. Carhart gave
birth TO n child about n year ago and DIR. Cleave'
land attended her. Six weeks afterward. on
saturday, April 10. according to the informa-
zion laid before District Attorney Gardiner,
Mrs C,rhart called on DIR. Cleaveland for consul.
,.ton about herself. and the doctor asked her
tox the baby was. The baby was named Violet
I,.,e Mrs. Carhart replied that tho baby was
r.rv we'll. except for a slight bowel trouble. and
,he doctor said he would give her something to
check il. She protested slightly. saying that
,hc didn't believe in giving much medicine to
children so young, and asking him, at all events.
IN make whatever he did give the baby very
mild, and not to put any pareEoric In It. .,,
is very light; be sure she gets this" And he
handed over this prescription:
M.1,.ih, su6.carb, II drachms.
Tr ont ramphor, / drachm.
Aqua CgmpAor, A. D., Ill OF.
I, was TO be- given in teaspoonful doses every
two hours. The medicine was given regularly,
hcTirn ng at : o'clock on Saturday evening and
continuing until 10 o'clock on Monday morn
I Es:n y Mfs' c inf Gn'i not hSs f esat t the Child do %as
breathing heavily and she sent for the doctor,
WIZ, called about noon. He examined the
tbat the complaint amounted to nothing
and that the mother had nothing to fear. Mrs.
Corhart told him that the child had rejected tho
renlied that he would give her something else.
lie wrote a prescription which called for lie
snoouful doses every two hours along with the
other medicine; This would make the dose OF
resOrcin ga grains every two hours.
The prescriptions were put up at the drug
store of Schwartz s Schweinfurth. at Forty
ninth street and Sixth avenue. The medicine of
the second prescription was given to the child
beginning al ! o'clock on Monday afternoon.
According to the information given by Mrs.
Carhart to the District Attorney, in about ten
the pupils OF her eyes enlarged, and she turned
sIshrly. and there was noticeable the odor
OF carbolic acid. Then she leaned back
limp ana seemed ~lifeless. She. monned.
however, began TO clutch at her mothers wrist
aud soon was in a profuse perspiration, al
though hands, face, and feet wero cold. She
medicine was given Ter at 8 o'clock. and Just be.
fore it was time to give the third dose there
was ayellow emulation about the child's nose
time as having turned black and her mouth
was dark blue. Dr. Clcaveland was called
S siSti sa ssq that nS Se felt t the chilG' si puise M snd said aid:
she has gone: no. there is a spark Of life;
poison; what has she had r.
The mother said that the child had had moth
ing except the medicine prescribed. Thereupon,
she AYERS, the doctor said the druggist must
have made = mistake in compounding tho pre-.
brandy, and gave the child hyperdermic in
iections OF it in the right arm and in each thigh.
"Oh. doctor. don't do that; that is terrible"
The doctor replied, she says: 1T is heroic
treatment. Brandy burns like fire under the
After this, Mrs. Carhart says. tho baby turned
purple and began to breathe heavily; Mrs. Car
iected the child SO, and she says that the doctor
answered that It was. and repeated that the
druggist must have made a mistake in putting
Mrs. Carhart then became anxious to get
another doctor. DIR. Cleaveland said that she
inO eonsa aitSM mlh g she se, saes wnasYebf Dr. we J. f Ionis
Smith or DR.. Sinclair Smith, both Of whom were
known to her as children's physicians. and the
them and that he preferred to have some one
with whom he worked. He further said, accord.
II will get a man whose word is taken in
court"
What is this, doctorI" said Mrs, Carhart.
Mrs. Carhart mentioned DR.. jacob and O DR..
MrDougall; but DR.. Cieaveland wanted to send
fS Dr.; William I; homson 1t was then about
son to the house at 8 O'Clock: They. talkei for |
afew minutes out of Mrs. Carhart's hearing.
and then DR.. Cleveland. in a tone audible to |
her, told DR.. Thomson that the baby had some
Slight bowel trouble, and that he had prescribed
SSamphorated %tincture Of opium and resorcin.
he said that at noon the child had been all
right and that at 3 o'clock she was in collapse.
Mrs. Carhart says that DR.. Thomson said in an
"Blunder this time"
Mrs. Carhart asked him what he had said, and
ne answered, she says;
Inc mother says that the child had turned to
hcrimson blue all over the body and WAS cold.
pr. Thomson gave directions how TO care for
DC perfectly quiet. surround her with hot
sIS bottles, apply oxygen to her ~nostrils
water. When the mother asked him II her
CONDITION was serious, he said that it was
very. The child then had spasms and her eyes
becoming almost 'black. Nitro Il cerine and
SLanay were administered to the sufferer, and
when this was done, tho mother says, crimson
Mould appear in the little ones face under the |
In her statement to the District Attorney Mrs.
About 400 in the morning hor eyes were
sIsd again; her face was black; her breathing
EsSemeu 10 have stopped. at 5 l sent for DR..
cleveland. and he administered brandy and
Uutlogiycerlne again and stayed until z o'clock. |
~ came again at noon and said that the baby
nouIn pull through all right on account of her /
siength. During the remainder OF the day her |
IcaVy breathing continued. At 8 O'Clock |
noticed a change in her complexion.
telt her head. She was in q very
hsn lever. Her mouth was wide open;
Sr tongue looked swollen and white; the
Ueathlng was SO heavy that the clothes that
Sere iylhg over her were heaving. She had a
SSe ernId grcenish color. having turned from the
Rurple blue. The breaths were then broken in
t,ae centre with screams between. This WAS be-
Tween . and 4 O'Clock. At 5 O'Clock DIR. Cleave-
i ~ came. told him a great change had
"uWhy. does she breathe like that, doctorT
I, ne said: Those are what we call double
4, said: n human being could live and suf-
%r a. she Is suffering now. She Is in a terrible
aMnnssdI' she can't. swallow. Her eyes have been
bb a since 3 O'Clock. Her tongue has been
hanging out OF her mouth
they not 4 HN ''"so"'' No
mhe applied therstethoscope and said to the
sSid" 'hal there were no rattles. Mr.. Carhart
,na Tho child certainly cannot 1.-Two through tho
: 'lt - very much worse
iHe doctor said: She does not look any