The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-02
HERNIA
CAUSED DEATH.
Attending Physician Testi.
fieS in the DOnahOe
Case.

When the United States Circuit
Court convened yesterday after
noon Judge Bradford drew the at
tention of the counsel in the case Of
Donahoe and the Receivers of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to a recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court. The
Supreme ourtrecognized what pro
posed to be a narrative of what oc-
Cured as being inadmissable. The
bodily feeling can be narrated but
not the cause.
Miss Mary Donahoe testified she
rubbed the abdomen and back of
her mother to relieve her of pain.
Her mother was sick at the stomach
at times. After the accident she
could not sit up for any length of
time. Her mother suffered intense
pain until she died. Before the ac-
cident her mother kept her room
clean and cooked and baked for the
family. She was not able to do
anything around the house after
she was hurt, DR.. Chandler at
tended her for two weeks and DR..
Pyle, DR.. Palmer, DR.. Draper and
DR.. Tomlinson called 70 see her
mother. Then she was placed un-
der the care of DR.. Josephine White.
Mrs. Cornelius Donahoe was a
boarder at the house when her
mother-in-law was injured. Wit
ness was present when Mrs. Dona-
hoe came home the night she was
injured and she complained of pains
in her back and lower part of the
abdomen. She often heard her cry
out with pain. Her condition was
critical and Mrs. Donahoe was I'M
able to leave the bed. Her condi-
ton was getting worse and she
grew weaker and weaker. For
days at a time she would not use a
spoonful of food. In her opinion
there was no time between the time
she was injured and the time she
died that Mrs. Donahoe did not
suffer with pain, She was not able
10 do more than lift the saucer to
her mouth after being injured. She
vomited the day or two after being
injured and for long time before
she died. She usually came down
for about twenty minutes each at
ternoon.
Cornelius Donahoe testified he
helped his mother upstairs the
night she was hurt. His mother
was a stout woman when injured.
She was almost a skeleton wh"1
she died. She was not able to 90
a thing after the accident. She suf-
fered pain continually and some
time it was greater than at other
times.
Mrs. Ella Logue lived five doors
away from Mrs. Donahoe and usu-
ally saw her twice day and was
frequent visitor at the house for
eight years, She had seen Mrs.
Donahoe bake as high as q loaves
of bread in one day. She saw Mrs.
Donahoe three days after the acct
dent and her suffering was intense.
Never saw any one ingreater agony
and often heard her scream out in
pain.
Alfred Carey knew Mrs. Donahoe
for six years. He generally waited
on her at Thompson's store. She
was at the store for groceries the
night before the accident. She car
ried the articles home in her apron.
He never saw her after the accident.
Sergeant George Black testified
that he knew Mrs. Donahoe for six
teen years. He usually saw her
every day around the store. He
frequently met her going from the
grocery store. He never saw her
after the accident.
John Rodgers knew Mrs. Donahoe
for eleven OF twelve years. He fire.
quently saw her about her store at
work and on the street going to the
butchers and grocery store.
William Jackson saw Mrs. Dona-
hoe at Hockessin on the day she
visited that place and the day she
was hurt. He knew her for thirty
years and on that day she looked
physically we'll
Miss Mary Reardon, of Hockessin,
testified that Mrs. Donahoe visited
her parents at Hockessin on Octo-
Der 10, 1893, and was in good health.
Mrs. Donahoe walked to and from
the house.
Mrs. Alice Moynihan knew Mrs.
Donahoe for thirty-tive years. On
the day she was in Hockessin Mrs.
Donahoe looked better than she had
for several years.
DR.. Peter W. Tomlinson testified
he has been a physician for twenty
one years. Upon the request of DR..
Josephine White he visited Mrs.
Donahoe in December, 1893, He
found her abnormally weak and APP
parently suffering from shock. He
next saw her the day before she
died. She was vomiting and could
retain nothing. A surgical exami-
nation revealed hernia and that
was accountable for the vomiting.
A hernia could be caused by a sud
den jar. 1t was a case of strangu-
lated hernia and that was the cause
of her death.
To Mr.. Bird examined Mrs.
Donahoe in 1893 and did not pass
her for insurance on account of
weak heart.
Assuming, DOCTOR said Mr..
Bird, that this woman fell down
stairs week before the accident. "
Mr.. Biggs-I object to this course
of throwing an inuendo into this
case. If this is the proper place to
introduce this part of his defense
then let him put it in. But it is I'M
fair to put such a question based
upon something for which there is
no foundation.
The court said this IL not in CROSSE