The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-23
Tells Why He Changed at Rate
Of Eighty Dollars an Hour.
MAGEE WAS WILLING To PAY.
Told the Doctor Hs Had Made $6O0,000
for Hin In Speculation No Record Of
Transactions Yet Found.

Philadelphia, April 23.-Dr. Walter c.
Browning said today that he had $4,000
in the hands OF senator Chris H. Magee
when the latter died. This sum was the
result. the doctor declared. of specula-
tions made for him by the senator.
He did not get the proceeds of these
operations and does NOT know whether
there is any record OF them.
The doctor also asserts that he declined
20 take as patient a New York man
worth sa0oo0,oO0 because he had To give
80 mu ch OF his time to Magee. lie says
the New York multi millionaire would
have paid twice the $4,000 bill for medi-
cal services against the Magee estate TO
have been cured, and that he could have
cured him.
The Magee bin was FOR attending the
senator during the last twenty-one
months OF his life and was at the rate of
$50 AN hour
Dr. Browning lives in a modest house
I'm fashionable Spruce street He Is a
little more than forty, mas piercing eye.
and wears carefully trimmed Van
Dyke beard Asked TO explain his record
breaking bill. he said:
my ordinary charges are so an hour
for the office and $40 an hour for outside
service Senator Magee voluntarily In
creased my fee 10 SO an hour, because he
required an my attention outside or my
ofnce work. / am "A rapid worker and be-
lieye l can do more in my line I'm five
minutes than. any other man can do IN
half an hour. Then | had 10 work night
and day TO be with Senator Magee as
h.. az
my other patients.
.',rhe bill is the aggregate of monthly
statements rendered TO the senator, who
20. KID each statement. The state
ments should he among his papers, but
] understand they cannot be founn. In
October. 1899 about four months after
j had begun treating the Senator. he told
me that he had $l5Oo0O FOR me. You can
have my check for that amount. or l Will
6nyest the money for you he said
I'll concluded that the Senator could
do more with the money than | could,
and ] told him To keep H. Two days be-
fore he died ne showed me papers which
indicated that the money. with other
items. amounted to s6oO00, and this did
not include my bill of $4,000.
.',rhe Senator also told me that he had
made s1Up9sO0 while was keeping the
breath In his body"
Asked n he had ever before rendered
such a large bill he said;
mo. but | turned away New York
man worth s200oo.OO0. who wanted my
services while | was attending Senator
Magee. | could have cured the New YORK
man In four months, and he would have
paid me double the amount OF Senator
Magee's bill"
DIR. Browning said that Senator Ma
gees death was from collapse through
oyerwork in nghting Quay at Harris
burg and not from the disease affiicting
him He said that IA addition 10 the lib
eral fees Senator Magee had agreed To
pay him. he had promised to provide
funds 10 aid I'm building a sanitarum
planned by the doctor. but that part
OF IL failed TO be put in writing before the
senator died" the doctor said regretfully.
DIR. Browning is graduate OF Jeffer-
son Medical College, and has been prac-
ticng in Philadelphia since 1873. the year
of his graduation. He belongs TO the
well known Jersey family of Brownings.