The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-24

III 6lSeil part Oh physicians VINO DelIer
than any other persons know the evils
and dangers that may result from this
business and it was thought that this
being an arduous, delicate and moral
duty, these gentlemen being physicians,
could guard against the evil. The
board of health should not alone peri
odically inquire into these maternity
hospitals, but powers should be lodged
in their hands that they might exam
inc them and search and seize any inn
plements of suspicion found in any
| such houses. The idea of the legisla-
tive committee was that this power
might be most safely lodged in the
| hands of honorable boards of health,
not thinking that persons on whom
| suspicious would fall would be entrust-
| ed with the duties of this Office
| Mr.. Goodhart-"Are you willing to
| tell the board of a single person who
| has stated to you that an abortion was
committed in the house of Mrs
| Vaughan"
Il refuse to give you any name"
S. o. Preston, agent of the Organic
| ed Charities, was the first witness call
ed when the session began last evening.
| He said that he had known Mrs
| Vaughan since 1894, when he traced
and found the fourteen-year-o daugh-
| ter of Mrs. Vaughan, who had run
! away from home. The girl was four
| teen years old and was found in a
| lodging house in Boston, where she was
dressed in boys clothes and went by
| the name of Charles Foster. Mr.. Pres
ton testified that she told him that she
| left home because her mother was a
bad woman He said that the girl
was now with her grandparents in
England.
Mr.. Goodhart-"Did she say any
thing about her mothers homer"
"She said 1t was a bad place, and
that she would never go back again.
you got the impression from what
she said that her mother was prosti-
tute, did your"
| mo, SIR
| did the girl state to you any act,
improper or lewd, which she had seen
in her mothers house?"
"No SIR
"Tell me with whom you have talked,
other than the girl in regard to the
reputation of Mrs. Vaughan"
II talked with Mrs. c. G. Penny, Su-
perintendent Smith, Officer Phelps,
Sergeant Dennehy, Captain Brewer,
! Detective Reilly and others whose
names l don't remember"
did any of these gentlemen tell you
of any particular incident that came
to their knowledge regarding the char
acter of chastity of Mrs. Vaughan. %
"Off1cer Phelps told me the stories
| of men being seen through the win
dows with Mrs Vaughan, of people
coming there at all hours of the night
in closed carriages, or women going
there pregnant and going away reliev-
| ed and of the bodies of children being
found on the meadows. / don't know
as 7 heard any stories except those re-
! lated here"
Norman Loud was the next witness
called. He is the husband of Mrs.
Loud, who has already testified, and
| who lives at AZ Stevens street, next to
No. 45, where Mrs. Vaughan lived.
Mr. Morehouse-"Mr Loud, will You
state what you noticed about Mrs.
Vaughan's place while she lived on
| Stevens street?
We'll, a good many men went there,
| going in at night and coming out in
the morning. A great number of girls
also went there. Most every night a
number of men were there until mid
night
do you recall how Mrs Vaughan re-
ceived visitors in the EVENING"
''She usually received them in eveninf
attire. Along about IL or IL o'clock SHE
would come to the door and look III
I and down the street, and If no one was
in sight the fellow would jump out and
hurry away. One night a fellow wht
was leaving took her by the hand ant
pulled her out on the stoop. She hat
4 on a white skirt and some kind of {
waist / think; her arms We're bare"
After some unimportant testimony
was given by the witness DR.. Fleisch
ner, president of the board, said: "Mr
Loud, do you remember in 1895, wher
/ the application for a maternity hospi
tai on Stevens street was pending be
fore the board of health, that had 6
conversation with your"
i Yes, SIR
Can you state what it was?"
II met you on a car and said that
had heard that Mrs. Vaughan had APP
piled for a license. I asked you to lie
me know when the hearing was held
as I would like to come down and op'
pose the granting Of license"
Didn't I tell you that a Congress
avenue car was no place to oppose thu
granting Of license and that a hear
ing would be held the following Tues
day at o'clock in the afternoon, ant
to come there if you had anything t.
say against the granting of license?'
Mr.. Alling-"There must have beer
misunderstanding. I didn't know tina
there was a hearing"
i Mr.. Loud-"There was a misunder
standing"
Mrs Dwight B. Snow Of No. 6 Pros
pect place was the next witness called
She said that her house was only ten o.
eleven feet away from the house wher
Mrs. Vaughan now lives at No. 8 Pros
pect place.
Mr.. Alling-"Mrs. Snow, do you re
member of seeing on any occasion ;
man and a woman together in one O
the rooms of Mrs. Vaughan's house?"
Eyes. The first time was about tn
middle of last October. 1t was in tn
back room, the window of which wa
just opposite my bedroom. 1t was il
the evening and saw a man apparent