The San Francisco call., 1899-09-26
MORE ACCUSERS RISE
AGAINST DR. TEBBETS
Continued from First Page.

the board were opposed to granting GER
tiflcates to women. Tebbets feigned sor-
row for the young lady's plight and out
of the goodness of his heart suggested
that he might be able to fix the mat
ter for a certain sum. The money was
paid and the certificate was issued.
When the impending scandal was known
only within the inner circle of the Dental
Examiners DR.. Moore of Benicia, who is
secretary of the board, wrote to DR.. Cranz
that whenever he said the word he
(Moore) was in a position to force Teb-
bets to resign. Later Cranz received
letter from DIR. Metcalf, urging him. in
view Of the evidence he had in his pos
session. to take immediate action against
Tebbets.
Desiring to prevent the scandalizing of
the profession, Cranz sent the Metcalf
letter to Moore, reminded him of his as
sertion of his power to force a resignation
from the accused and requested him, for
the good of the fraternity, to make Teb-
bets step out. DIR. Cranz has never re-
ceived an answer to.the letter and Tebbets
is still member of the board
1t appears that at the time George r.
Harris decided to try for certificate
from the State Board he was not aware
that the key of the whole situation was
for sale. No one had intimated to him
that the list Of questions could be pur-
chased from members of the board until
after he had taken the examination in
anatomy and failed to pass. This exami-
nation occurred in the morning, and be-
fore the afternoon, ii Is stated on good
authority, Harris was told by DIR. j. S
Knowlton that there was an easier way
to get a certificate than to burn the mid
night oil studying books on dentistry. For
a consideration of S25 Knowlton is said to
tionS. Harris did not have the ready
money. and pawned his ring to raise the
wind that promised to blow a dental GER
tifcate in his direction.
The scheme was so promising that Har-
rs let a couple of fellow-students named
Nicholas Connor and Fred o. Wolf in on
the secret The story goes that he agreed
to let them have the use of the questions
which he had contracted for with Knowl-
ton Knowlton had previously informed
Harris that Tebbets was the man who had
such great compassion on the struggling
students in dentistry as to give them the
list of examination questions for a con-
sideration.
In some way the fact that Harris was
going to share his information with his
friends reached the ears of the dealers
in State Board favors, and Harris was in
formed that the price of questions had
gone up. The demand was made Tor $l5
Wolf and Connor were called into con-
sultation. and between the trio the neces-
sary amount was raised. This was handed
to Knowlton and in the course of little
time he delivered the goods
The three men studied the questions ana
prepared their answers in the office of
Dr. E. j. Treyer room 7, Phelan building,
where Harris is now practicing- They
carefully avoided a similarity in their
style of answers and when they went to
complete their examinations they were
satisfied that all they had to do was to
wait and have their certificates handed
them
Things did not come their way. While
they were waiting for the glad tidings OF
their success they received the sorrowful
news that they would have to try again
that they had fallen by the wayside in
answering some of the questions. Harris
at once jumped at the conclusion that he
had been bunkoed and snorted around like