Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-29
KILLED A PATIENT.
Such Charges Against Bellevue
Hospital Nurses.
THREE HELD FOR GRAND JURY.
Released on $1,000 Bail Each-District
Attorney Mcintyre says IL One Wit
ness story Is True. the Case Is One
OF Murder.

New York, Dee. 29.-The jury in
the inquest into the cause of the
death of Louis H. billiard, an insane
patient at Bellevue hospital, render
ed verdict declaring that he had
come to his death from asphyxiation
and fractured ribs, caused by Jessie
II. Davis, Edward o. Dean and Gin
ton l.. Marshall, three nurses. The
coroner held the accused to await
the action of the grand jury. The
fury also censures the Bellevue hos
ptal authorities for laxity of meth
DDS.
Despite the protests of Assistant
District Attorney Mcintyre Davis,
Dean and Marshall were released in
s., 900 bail each
Mrs billiard said that she noticed
bruises on her husbands head when
she saw him at the insane pavilion,
and he told her he had been beaten.
She asked the doctor ditch how he
got the bruises, and he said he did
not know and did not want to know.
Thomas ID. Boyle, a policeman, tes-
tilted that he had arrested Minnock,
the man who gave sensational evi
dence Thursday, on Dec -. and told
of a conversation with Minnock on
the ear to the police station, in which
Minnoek said he had been thrown
down on his story, but had story
at any rate. which he could sell, that
they had killed a man in the pavil-
ion on Tuesday"
DIR. John w. Moore. Jr.. of the
Bellevue hospital staff, testified. His
testimony was in part as follows:
He first saw billiard on Tuesday in
the shower bath and paid no more
attention to him. The witness said
his impression was that he saw Hill
Hard between 10 and II Oh WedneS-
day, Dec. r. and had short CONVEX
sation with him. He had his clothes
on and the witness said he had an
indstinct recollection of seeing n
slight bruise over billiards. eve. He
next saw billiard between ; and 6
o'clock. when lie was summoned in
hurry and found one Of the nurses
kneeling over billiard. producing
artificial respiration. He did not
want to stop the artificial respiration,
so he did not put his ear to the mans
heart for several moments He then
found that billiard was dead. In
reply to some of the questions he
said Marshall was trying to produce
artificial respiration. Davis was also
present. and a third nurse, if he re-
memhered correctly. Davis said the
man had become violent in the cor
ridor and had a violent scuffie, in
which he fell. striking the back of
his head; that he ascribed death to
acute dilation of the heart. caused
by an exhausting fight. and the au-
topsv said the man had dilated
heart
City Magistrate Hogan testified to
the appearance of Minnock. former
patient before him on Dec. Is and
his discharge at the request of DR.
Fitch.
81 asked him if he had not become
frightened by the doctors" said Mag
istrate Hogan. "and he said he had
asked him if he had seen anything
he had not. He was not under
oath"
DISPUTE arose before the coroner
as to the time when sheet was
twisted aboUt billiards. throat the
defense holding that it was on Tues
day. Minnoek was recalled and testi-
fed that the sheet was twisted
around billiards. throat ON Wednes-
day by Davis. He was questioned as
to details of his story and repeated
the Incidents related by him on the
stand Thursday and described the
twisting of the sheet about billiards.
neck by Davis after the fashion
known among sailors as the Spanish
windlass
"If this witness testimony is true
this takes the case out of the cate
CORY Of manslaughter and makes it
one of murder" said Assistant Dis
trict ATTORNEY Mcintyre. ut estab-
fishes generalization. To take sheet
and twist it about n mans neck I'M
til he is suffocated is murder"
William O'Rourke. superintendent
of Bellevue. also testified
Annie McDermott. cook in the
kitchen of the pavilion for the in.
sane. testified in part, in answer to
some of the questions that on
Wednesday, after supper, billiard
got ND from the table and fell. She
said Davis gave billiard a slight
slap that would not hurt a baby"
She admitted that she had said she
heard men take Hilliard into the
bath room and turn on the shower
bath. and that she recognized the
voices of Dean and Davis and the
Frenchman.
The attorneys on both sides summed
up and the case was turned over to
the jury.