The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-02-07


they went to bed and sometimes they
didn't.
FRANK JusTUs 1
being sworn, testified;
Have been doing chores at Crofford's,
carrying in-wood, keeping fires and at
tending to his team; been there since
the night after Christmas except two
days last week. l worked in the country
Monday and Tuesday; got back to the
Sanitarium Wednesday,; Miss Stone was,
there; DIR. Croford told me she came on
Wednesday; had taken sick on the train.
| understood she had appendicitis and
inflammation of the bowels, understood
she was very sick; don't know of her
having company any time but the day
she died; wasn't interested in it at all.
A lady named Barnes from Shenandoah
was there; don't know whether she was
operated on or not; never saw her.
There was no operation for appendicitis
performed on Miss Stone; at least they.
told me there wasn't; never been there
when they performed an operation;
know where the operating room is but
never prepared it for operation by
scrubblng or heating. | didn't notice
any other physicians helping DIR. Crof-.
ford; 1t was 1925 in the evening when
she died.
A. w. GARR1NGER
being sworn. testified:
"Don't know anything about this
case; have been to the sanitarium for
medicine; saw one other patient there
man who was hurt in the stomach;
heard them say in Allender's barber
shop that old man Evans said she died
IS &c
that wasn't much to kill anybody;
ever asked me if there was any doctor
ton; meyer received any letter to that
effect.
BIRDIE e. CROFFORD
being sworn testified:
Age, %, live in Lamont: [ attend to
my homework and our patients; nurs-
ing and overseeing the work; l knew
Miss Stone only when she came to our
place last Wednesday: she came on the
1890 freight from the north; came to
the sanitariu:n afoot: | saw her first
when she came; she came to be treated;
said she was running off at the bowels
after she started from home; said she
would stay day or two and then go
on; said her bowels hadn't been right
for quite awhile. She complained of
pain in the right side, about half way
between the umbilical and the hip bone;
did not say pain was intense, but she
felt pain. That was on Wednesday: I
remember distinctly because it was the
23d and happened to look at the cal
endar as generally do when anybody
comes; think the doctor has it in his
day book. She was assigned to her
room the first thing; she didn't go to
bed Immediately: laid down without
removing her clothing. Doctor gave
her medicine to check the bowels and
on Thursday, 1 think, gave her an in
lection with long rubber tube fastened
to a fountain syringe, such as is COM
monty used for such purposes; l was
present at the time and it seemed to
relieve her for awhile. She wasn't
particularly restless the night before;
no one was in the room with her but
my step daughter was in the next
room and she had bell at the head of
her bed and the doors were open;
don't remember of Miss Stone calling
anyone the first night. After she had
the injection she seemed to improve
till the next day and then she COM
menced vomiting; | applied liniment
over the region of the pain, liniment
that we use in such cases; rubbed her
and it hurt; she could hardly bear for
me to touch her. She said there was
tenderness just little below this line
indicating) where that sore place was
as we'll as can remember up this way
and across and down the left side. She
wasn't bloated at any time; she hadn't
much temperature at any time: there
was water where she could reach it but
she only drank a few swallows when
she was vomiting. Doctor Crotford
and [ waited on her: no one else; he
did not have consultation. The Doctor
did not consider the case serious or
dangerous until Tuesday evening; she
had all indications of being better all
day. The DOCTORS diagnosis was intlam-
nation of the colon, colitis and appen-
dicitis; also Inflammation of the
stomach and bowels; we applied a
mustard draught to the stomach.
She had no chill; did not COM
plain of being cold; there was fire
in her room all the time; never let
| it go out. l didn't know who the
young lady was until she came and told
| us; she said her name was Maude Stone
and that she lived near Decatur City;
we didn't consider her any ways seri-
Gus Saturday when we spoke to her about
notifying her folks; she said her folks
were able to pay her bill; don't know
that she said whether she was able to
pay it herself or not; supposed she in
tended to pay it herself. didn't hear
her say; don't know whether or not
it is customary to know all about these
things when stranger comes. She
said, when we insisted upon notifying
her folks, that she was the only one at
home; that she was her mothers baby,
the youngest child, and she said it
| would worry her mother so that she
sick away from home. We thought
so, too, because it didn't seem very
serious, and she wouldn't allow us to
write at all. We didn't know who to
write to, except her mother, and she
didn't give her mothers first name;
she didn't say her address was Deca-
tur-said she lived near Decatur. No
one called on her while she was there;
] am positive about that because we
waited on her all the time; l was in
her room almost constantly and when
I had to leave I always sent Miss Crof-
ford (my step-daughter) in. We were
there most of the time from the time
she came because she didn't like to
stay alone. I was not in the room the
| first night but she had bell so she
could call me If she wanted to. No,
sir, the rectal injection was not in the
Operating room. [ first assigned her
to the corner room but it being so
small | moved her to the southwest