The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-06-08
MURDER ROBBERY AND LYNCH|Nc is BEING
CARRIED ON BY BANKERS AND RESPECTABLE
mine OWNERS in C0L 0RAD0, j. s OF AMERICA

by one Of the business men and asked
to investigate. A black wagon with
tightly drawn curtains concealing it's
contents stood on Stevens street. Just
then Otis came and climbed into the
wagon and drove away. A store
keeper said the team had stood there
from 0 o'clock in the forenoon. 1t
Was then $3.50 o'clock. The man said
he did not know what was in the
wagon, that he had not cared to look.
He pointed out young fellow a half
. block away in blue coat and light
coiored hat, whom he said was usu-
ally around with Otis and who is said
to be Carl Carlson.
Carlson started toward the river,
walking with shaking legs like sick
nah scarcely able to support himself.
He walked down to the river and then
back to Main and Stevens. His face
fs badly covered and blotched with
sores, giving him very repulsive ap-
pearance.
Another business man said Carlson
was sent last January to the isolation
hospital from a lodging house in that
vicinity and that he was supposed to
have the smallpox. that Otis still
keeps him about and intends to use
him as a witness in his coming di-
vorce suit. Carlson had wanted to
return to his home in the east, but
that Otis retains $50 belonging to
him and wants him to remain until
after the trial. This man said he did
not think Carlson now had the small
pox. but that he and Otis were about
town half drunk some days all day
long.
women Protest.
Mrs. X. e. Brownell, Mrs Barber.
Mrs. Charles Pashak and Mrs. Will
liam Manhart, who reside in the VI
cinity Of the hospital. were present
sb the meeting Of the board of health
yesterday afternoon and testified to
the habits and incompetency of Keep
er Otis. They testified that Otis is
frequently drunk. that ne allows pa
tients to roam at will about the
neishborhood. endangering the life
and health Of the people in the vi
einity, and that in the hospital Otis
has patients with different diseases
minsiing together and eating at the
same table when the hospital has
been provided with the necessary ac-
'commodations to avoid this. They
testfied that the vilest kind of cast
on underclothing. filled with smallpox
germs. had been found in the vicinity
Of the hospital, where 1t had been
thxown over the fence.
Mrs. Dean IN the Csse.
They also accuse Otis of being too
familiar with a woman named Mrs
Dean, who was formerly a patient.
but whom Otis has since hired as an
attendant. They claim that while the
city is paying her supposedly for
services she spends her time riding
back and forth with him and re-
manning out with him as late as IL
O'clock at night, and that she came
and went to the city with Otis a week
before she was discharged as a pa
tient.
Given Secret Rearing.
Otis yesterday, after the accusa-
tions of the women, asked that they
be excluded while he gave his side of
the question. The board refused this
and he made his denials. He then
was given a secret hearing with the
board and the result was announced
that the board would not render an
opinion until after the divorce case
was heard.
We care nothing about Mr.. Otis
divorce affairs" said Mrs. Brownell,
one OF the complaining women, this
morning. I'VE care nothing about
MS Otis, but we do want to be pro-
tected in our homes. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harris. who were formerly in charge
at the hospital. we know are fit per-
sons for the place, but we would be
perfectly satisfied with anyone the
board may place in charge provided
he is competent decent and sibar"