The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-12
FUN WITH A WOMAN SLEUTH
QUARRY WOULD TAIN AILMENTS, BUT
HE WOULDN'T PRESCRIBE.
County Medical Society's Detective Called
So Often to Get Evidence That the Doc
tors She Suspected Found Her Out.

County Medical Society's Detective Called
So Often to Get Evidence That the Doc
tors She Suspected Found Her Out.
Richard G. Flower OF the Waldorf Astoria.
a real estate dealer who Is also financially In
terested in q medical company in West Thirty
fourth street, was arraiRned before Magistrate
0lmsted in the-Je (Terson Market Police Court
yesterday on charge OF practicing medicine
without being registered as a physician. The
charge was preferred by.Caroline Westphalen.
q private detective in the employ OF the County
Medical Society. who said that she had Wis
tied the office Of the company a number OF
timesiand that she had had two interviews with
Mr. Flower. in which no had examined her and
had told her all about her many alleged all
ments.
Mr.. Flower told the court that the woman
had visited the company's Office 80 many
times. always asking to see him personally.
that the physicians there finally became suspi-
clous and made up their minds to find out the
reason for her mysterious calls. When they
had succeeded in this he decided to have some
fun with tho woman. She was admitted into
his private once:when size called the next
time and he began to examine her in way
which ought to have told her that he was ok
ing with her He tod her that she had all
kinds OF diseases and that many medicines
we're needed to build up her ruined constitu-
ton.
According 10 the complainant's state ment
in her affidavit Mr.. Flower felt her pulse by
Whe he ' reed Rs I hand
which position was maintained for some niue
time" She was not quite satisfied with tho
ouGhy into her case. MIR. Flower answered
that he never needed to ask patients CUES cues
ing at them. She tried several cans to get
him to write out prescription Tor her but ne
told her at last that she would get medicine.
the prescription was made out by DR.. j. Is.
She returned on June 81. the woman said in
her AFFIDAVIT and again saw. Mr. Flower. in
person, aud Acknowledged The ,receipt on a
iclnes, a bunch Of circulars and a b! for So.
Her chief COMPLAINT then was that all the med
,hs to be ali '1k sR SeT r omsr replied
to her. Take them Just to suit yourself, be.
fore. after o. during the meals: and you may
it. it, You see the trouble with YOU is that all
you eat passes irto your blood and then IT.
you are so thin and nervous Eat, my dear wo-
man. eat red bricks: II yol can .,
He then examined R ner again inc CESSNA n
outifthere was any heat in her blood. 1t was all
chilliness. apparently and he said that was very
OF alleged ailments to those he had already
discovered in her, hoping 70 got him to pre-
mentIo ned INSCRIPTIONS she was sent to one
ofthe registered physicians on tbs floor be-
low. This same thing happened when she
wanted to pay her bill to Mr.. Flower. All
these achemes failing. she went to Magistrate
Cornell to get a warrant on the strength OF
the examination alone.
Ex-senator Norton Chase. who was a wit,
ness for the defendant and testified that he had
been in the defendants company daily for the
last six months. in his own office. in the de-
fendant's Broad street office and travelling in
the Southwestern States. He was thus able
to tell with absolute certainty that Mr.. Flower
had never tried in earnest to act as a prac-
ticng physician.
Magistrate Olmsted dismissed the case on
the ground that the prosecution had failed to
prove that any law had been violated.