The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-02

LHucu Oh MS TIME dL night ne spent
away from home. If / said anything
about ii he claimed that he was off on
professional business. He left no one
with me, even when | was sickest, and
there was no one to wait on me, even
| to hand me glass of water.
when he went out he always locked
the door on the outside and took the
key with him. There was another key
that unlocked the door on the inside,
but l was so very sick that | could
not use it. One night when | was
thus locked in, fire broke out near our
house and | was very badly frightened
and distressed DIR. Buffaloe did not
| come back until very late. He said he
had been to the lodge, but my father
and mother came to my assistance dur
ing the fire. | don't remember how
they got into the house.
Did DR.. Buffaloe that night ask you
il YOU We're satisfied to remain alone?'
Il don't remember, but that WASH t
his custom TO ask me what my wishes
were. He would go off, sometimes say
ing he was going to the lodge and some
times to the Academy of Medicine.
Occasionally | would ask him to let me
know where he'd be so that | might
let him know if call came, and he
would say Il woman ought not to inter
fere with her husbands business"
THE TRIP TO BALTIMORE.
The expense of her trip to Baltimore,
to have an operation performed, Mrs
Buffaloe said, was borne by her father
DIR. Buffaloe was not with me when
the operation was performed, though he
was in Baltimore. And while | was
there after the operation l saw very
little of him. He would come for a few
minutes in the morning but wouldn't
sit down. And he would pay me SINH
lar visit that evening. / often asked
him to stay and talk to me but he sell
dom did so.
Did he give any excuse for not re-
naming with you?"
HE said there was so much to see
in Baltimore lie also spoke about the
new diptheria treatment, and said he
was studying that"
Mr. Busbpe-'Do you know whether
DIR. Buffaloe would have been allowed
to spend his time with you iaethe ward.
Mrs Buffalce-'l am sure he would.
/ had private ward. In a similar
ward next to me there was another lady.
A. doctors wife. Her husband was with
her all day and even slept in the ward
when she was suffering most"
The witness said certain prescriptions
for medicines We're glgen her at the hos
pital in June, 1898, for use after she
came home These she said her nus
band refused to get for her until she
told her father and he spoke to DIR. Buff
falF about it.
I'm December | was again sick, CON
fined to my bed, and DR. Buffaloe did
nothing for me. One evening | had
Il very hard chill and was very i'll. But
DR.. Buffaloe seemed to pay me no atten-
ton. He came to supper, passed hur-
riedly through my room, are supper, and
at once went away again. He did not
return till very late. The colored ser
want remained with me that night My
father came and spoke TO my husband
about the medicine, telling him that if
he (Buffaloe) wouldn't get the medicine
then he (my father would and would
see that | was provided for. For
whole month | did not have my tonic
DR.. Buffaloe refused to get it for me,
and gave me instead some sample bot
ties Of medicine left with him by
drummer. He protested that he knew
better than the physicians at the hos
pital what | needed.
81 asked him whether he had ever
given to anyone else the preparation he
wanted me TO take. lie said no, but
he wanted to try it and see what it
was worth, and what effect it had. Also
one day when / was suffering from a
paroXysm of pain he chloroformed me.
Or rather he told me next day he had
and that he would never try it again as
he thought / was going to die"
THE DEATH OF a CHILD.
The witness related the circumstances
of the death of her child Mabel.
THE child was sick and | had no
one to help me. | nursed her beside at
tending to my household. duties, until
| was worn out. That night the child
was quiet and, | thought, better. DIR.
Buffaloe said he thought so, too, and
| told him if he'd sit up with her I'd
sleep some. He agreed to do so and I
lay down. When ! awoke she was
dead. / asked why he had not told me.
He said he went to sleep too. Then
| said being a physician he ought to
have known she was worsesoff' and told
me of it before | went to sleep. He
replied that he knew the night before
that she was dying, but he didn't think
it necessary to tell me-
Mrs. Buffaloe next told of her husband
whipping their other child, Ethel This
was in the Spring of 1896.
Ethel was sleeping in DR.. Buffaloe's
room. | was awakened by the sound of
blows and the child crying. Though
was very weak and feeble / got up and
went into the room. | found DIR. Buffa-
Toe whipping Ethel because She had had
bad dream which had woke her up
and scared her, and she wanted a light
brought in. He refused to do so and
was whipping her to make her hush. |
demonstrated with him and he said it did
no good-that the more / said the harder
he would whip.
Il then took up the child and started
out and he put his hands ON me and
pushing me toward the door said if /
was going to do that way we might both
go out of the room and stay out /
would have fallen had | not caught
hold of the crib"
ONLY so FOR CLOTHING.
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