The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-03
HEARD A MOAN
FROM THE BODY
Miss Murphy Declares That
Miss MCCabe Was Not Dead
| WHEN BODY WAS PLACED ON ice
| Had the High Temperature Of Typhoid
Fever Patient, She Insists.
DOCTORS MADE AN AUTOPSY LATER
| h Showed, the Physicians Claim, That Death Wal
Due 10 Hsmouhags Of the Intsstnss s-An
investigation is Demanded.
Had the High Temperature Of a Typhoid
Fever Patient, She insists.
DOCTORS MADE AN AUTOPSY LATER

New York, Jan. S.-Presbyterian hos
pital physicians yesterday came 10 the
conclusion that Margaret McCabe was
not i'm a trance, but was surely DEAD
The woman was supposed to have ileo
in the hospital on Sunday. she was
pronounced dead and an autopsy was
ordered neld, but when il was learned
that she had been subject TO cataiepsy
the woman was placed back in bed ana
efforts were made to restore her' NO
sign OF life. however, was shown.
Coroners' Physician Weston called at
the hospital. After viewing the pody
he stated that the woman was dead De-
yond doubt. He authorized an autopsy
which showed that death was due 10
hemorrhage of the intestines.
Notwithstanding the result OF the au-
topsy and the emphatic statement by
Superintendent Fisher OF the frespy
terian hospital, and other physlclais ol
that Institution, that Miss McCabe was
dead when taken To the hospltai
morgue, Miss Harriet Noruauih Mui
| phy the woman's friend, and herselt a
! trained nurse of long experience. insists
| that there has been great mistake
made and says she will demand tuE-
| ther investigation.
| -A,-Hulshof- who appeared IN Inc
| case as the dead girls fiancee, and VINO
| IL also a trained nurse at the Isabella
| Ueimath. Amsterdam avenue ana lsOth
| street. SAYS Miss Murphy is correct
| Hc saws he visited the hospital on sun
| day night after the body had been
| taken TO the accident ward from the
| morgue. and will swear that the Wo-
man had not been dead more tnah
| .,.sll 4 M IA 4 H.
vestigation. -
Miss Murphy. after telling OF her
friendship for Miss McCabe, and the
circumstances of her removal 10 th'
PRESBYTERIAN hospital, said:
u went to the hospital on sunday
morning at 10 o'clock, and was tod tina
Mas McCabe had just. died. Some
thing told me that / should view th'
body, and at o o'clock, eight hours later
| went back and obtained permission
to inspect IL i'm the morgue.
> II Mas startled at it's lifelike appear
ance. There was nothing of the coma
tose condition and no sign whatever o
death 1 was perfectly calm ana co,
Iected and walking over TO the Dou'
nl,ced my hand on the forehead.
J II found the body at the temperatur
of n tvphoid fever patient, or ABOUT lv
degrees. And this was, remember al
ter being for eight hours in freezin
temperature. As l placed my mana
the girls forehead / heard a distinc
moan. and the head moved slightly.
I Il will swear that the woman wa
2 then alive. | conveyed my suspicion
4 10 the authorities and to Dr. tlshel
and he admitted that 1T looks strange
and had the body taken from IN
r,orp,ie and wrapped i'm blankets. MOI
than that. the coroner's office was nc
tified that the case was one OF 'su'
. pended animation
Miss Murphy says she proposes
= have the case thoroughly inNestlgat.
80" -. n,.otect other patients i'm the cit
bospitaIs who might be carelessI
treated.