The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

New York, Deosmber 27.-The inquest
ever the death Of Louis ii. Hilllard, in
the insane pavilion OF Bellevue hospital
on December IL. was begun before Coro-
ner FITZPATRICK today. Three nurses from
the Mills training school, j. X. Davis,
Edward q. Dean and Clinton / Marshall,
who were on duty at the insane pavilion,
ara accused CT causing billiards. death.
Mrs. Hilnard, wife of the dead man,
ssid ne had not been bruised or hurt be-
fore entering Bellevue. She said that
enos when she called at Bellevue she saw
Marshall, one Of the accused nurses,
hanele her husband roughly.
Tlomas j. Minnock, reporter, saii
he was In the Bellevue insane ward when
Hiliiard was taken there. When the man
arrived, according to Mlnnook, Deans
cried out, "Hurran, here comes another
bum He said that this remark or an
other mora opprobrlous was thu usual
greeting OF patients.
Minnock said billiard was made to run
down the corridor and was kicked by
Marshall as TO ran. The witness de-
SERTED billiard refusing TO eat and
eaid that Dean said:
"Ill make You eat, grappled billiard
by rhe throat, threw him to the floor and
held him there until he was black in the
face, kneeling on his chest while Mar
shalt and Donnelly helped to hold him.
When billiard again declared he would
not eat, the three hit and kicked him.
Then they dragged Hilliard head first in
TO the bath rom, took his clothes on,
gave him a shower bath and hit him in
the stonaea Then they took billiard
into his room. Witness was awake ned
In the night by billiard crying for water.
Next morning he saw nothing OF Hilliard
until dinner. He was feeble and seemed
to be IN great pain His head was covered
with ruises and there were blue marks
on his throRt. About one o clock he said
Superintendent . RourSe came in and
said:
''You hare tesn getting pretty goo1
beating, hey
ono, Hililasd repl led, 81 have been
scratched
Minnock explained that Hililard made
this reply PROBABLY because Davis had as
semhIea the patients that morning and
had saidi IF any tyou say anything
OF what goes on here, Wen tx you. We
have the power of life and death here"
Davis, witness said. told DIR. wlldman
when he came on his rounds, that they
had a pretty violent patient and DIR.
WiIdman he alleged, replied: "Give him
coed licking"
20 Il AFa
any good Minnock said, WAS Davis
answer.
Continuing the witness said that at
supper on Wednesday one OF the nurses
asked billiard If he was going to eat
Hiiliard said he was not; he wanted TO go
home Davis came in from the office ana
grabbed Hilliard who broke away and
ran around the table Marshall and Dean
caught MIN and he was Kicked unmerci-
fully, Dean and Marshall holding him up
while Davis kicked him about the legs
and thighs and even about the body.
Then, tue witness said, they got sheet
and rolled it up and, putting 1t around
billiards. neck, twisted 1t tighter and
tighter. Then they took him into the
hath room and turned the water on him
without taking of his clothes, afterwards
dragging him to his room. Presently
the witness heard Davis say:
Dean, come here, 1 think this fellow
Is dying"
The nurses ran past the witness room
several times and then Davis telephoned
for DIR. Moore. After that, the witness
Tell asleep. The next morning Minnock
heard Davis tslephoning about dozen
times inquiring, has that autopsy bean
performed, and the nurses held num-
ter of consultations. The witness said he
told Davis on Thursday evening that he
had come there for the purpose OF getting
story. Davis turned white. The wit
ness said that Davis, Marshall and Dean
had each begged him not to say anything
about what had occurred and he assured
there that he had no story.
Minnook said that when the N urses
were beating him billiard cried out:
"Ain't you ashamed; kill me at once;
finish me.''
DIR. e j. Donlin, coroner's physician,
who made the autopsy on the body Of
H.lliard, testified as to the condition in
which he found the body, with abrasions
on the right elbow, Commissions on the
left hand, forearm, side and shoulder and
on the forehead and all along the left leg.
He said that three ribs were broken, the
lungs oongested, the hyoid bone broken
and that the trachea showed internal
hemorrkages. Death had bean caused, he
said, by asphyxiation and fracture of the
ribs. The inquest then adjourned.