Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-17

COURT MARTIAL
IS AT AN END.
The Trial Of Major Egao Closed
This Afternoon
Makes plausible story o. "''
parent NssIcc,-Judse Advocate
VIII Review the Case

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The trial Of Major Esan at ro ',.
Douglas for alleged lnatten'lon 70 s ',.''
soldiers Was completed today WIN we
,ss,Imony Of the accused man himself
The only witnesses heard were Dr. A.
q. Belle Of this city and the aceuSeu
man. The only value Of the former
testimony lies in the fact that II sen-
erally sustains Major Egan In MS
method Of treating and diagnosing Ine
peeullar diseases that have come up9er
his care as post surgeon Ihe hlaJor
Ia an eYperlenced witness and bore clear
direct testimony He eyinced thorough
knowedae of the various diseases anu
thelr peculiartles that the soldiers wy
afflicted With and made a plauSlple
story out OF his apparent neglect
Judge-Adyocate Skerret as tne prose-
sutor, was keen and comprehensive
and II Is safe 70 say that he mas KY,
mtted nothing to be passed over that
was his duty as an officer OF the gov
eminent 10 inyestlgate'
The afternoon was taken up IN the ar
g,menls of the counsel for the DEFENSE
and the reviewing Of the case by tne
1udge-advocate. The session was held
behind closed doors
Or. A. c. Behle was the first witness
fnd In defense testified that he was
familiar with such diseases as afflicted
the sick soldiers az the post. A sup
Tosed case Yves presented to him, based
UPON the condition Of Private Holland,
the soldier who WAS operated upon, ana
he could see no reason for pain In suoh
q case. He further testified that ne
had performed similar operation UP
en- patient who was afflicted with
the same disease, but performed a sub
segment operation on the same patient,
Another case was presented TO the
witness, Of a supposed case based up
on the condition Of Private Glover
wherein the patient complained OF va
ilous diseases at different times, Wit
ress thought such a patient would be
suffering from hypochondria or hys-
terla.
Dr. Behe bore testimony tending to
endorse The method Of Major Egan In
diagnosing certain cases, and was then
cross.examlned by the judge advocate.
Witness stated that In case, such as
Private Hollands he knew Of no rea-
ron why further operation should not
have been made, but there may have
been conditions requiring q different
course He stated further that an In
spcction, such as Major Egan gave,
was sufficient 10 determine the pres
euce Of Inflammation, but added that
the ordinary layman could not deter
mine the presence Of Inflammation In
such case as Private Hollands,
The Judge advocate then asked q
series Of very lncisive questions as 10 |
why q layman could not determine the
presence OF Inflammation Witness con-
tended that the average man Of aver
age Intelligence could distinguish the |
extreme and not the milder form Of the |
emotions unless he had made special
study Of the matter,
MAJOR EGAN TEsTfFl1s.
The last witness before the court was
the accused man himself and his ex-
animation was close ana sharp. But |
he stood up well under the pointed
questions Of the keen Judge advocate
and presented his case as we'll as posi-
bic. He stated that he graduated
from the medical department Of the
Columbia university Of New York In
1850, He then went into the Charity |
hospital In New York, where he had
broad experience In skin and other
diseases. Witness had always paid |
as much attention to skin diseases as
possible He was In the hospital i'm
Boston and worked IN the laboratory OF
the surgeon generals Office at Wash
ington
In the case OF Private LeMesurior,
witness swore that the former was not |
on sick report on the date charged. On
the morning of Nov. witness was un-
der orders to so to Ogden, lie had |
examined % men that morning and had |
about fifteen minutes to catch his car
when he got through lie was not sat-
isfled with the examinations he had
given the men and two days later call.
ed them up again and examined them
battalion OF he 1sth ,nssn, ~ =, M oi,e
were 700 men a. the post, while before
the Spanish war, when there were univ
400 men al the post there was ons nn,,
geon and two assistants.
Witness testified that when he on.
nmlned LeMesurlor he aid moi And the
latter's clothes adherlng IN hls sorss
The efuptions were IN a c,usted statc
and the witness marked that the ma
tient walked away from thn hosnitai
difficulty He testiflaa ,hat ~
only saw one open sore on Testasr,,a,s
Major Egan explained the evrnn,n 'vss
Of dhoblc itch, saying that when in The
rrusted stage there was no Ingamma
tlon or soreness and tho cas@s 80 ,So
Itch that ne refused Ia tale tn ~ ~ sno
pital were all In .he crnetsd s,ae W. ''0s
Witness gave Inc history 30 ~ 49,.
u Sergt swInford WIN NO., u'e uase
led wag IN The Inst a,a s.s .csu-
tage of dhobjc itoh un io,na puiniess
ped hollis and was n,onNa Nv ueVel-
itaI Witness stated No, Ine nos,
wlnford In Inc hosnitat T NV hept
fler the latter wan,od . uoS or TWO
uty, ~ ~ JAVA vi
In regard Ia the one. 80 NIL,
lover witness stated that ~, ~ rIiVate
orted about Nov ~, 'na. wv COOK re-
Z n sore thrcat sh ~ a"a compialned
ess said Glover's CONF. ", vac suh, Wit
r told him he was Y" .,,syn!.,, ooianlahd-
,ul disease ana S,s,o u,seliiis from
he cook room clavar 'V M. MN rom
D witness comulaInine ~ r nai. reported