The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

The remains Of the late Miss Lottie
Kinyon. who died at southern Pines
on last Friday morning, reached Will
mington on Tuesday night and the
funeral was conducted yesterday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
The delay in bringing the body to
who attended Miss Kinyon HI refused
to issue a certificate showing the cause
OF death until a claim should be paid
which he claimed was due for treatment
given Miss Kinyon.
Captain w. A. Kinyon, the father of
the deceased, was approached by a rep
resentative of The Messenger yester-
Day and the facts in the case ascertain
ed. He stated that several months ago
when he learned Of his daughters crit
ical condition, she had been staying in
Wilmington on account of the mili CHI
mate his home being in New York, he
decided to sen her to Southern Pines,
hoping that the climate there might
restore her health. Before sending her
there he communicated with DR.. Louis
u. High, physician in charge of the
Pineshire sanitarium, who stated that
the cost would be SIG a week, the same
covering all expenses except medicine.
Captain Kinyon said he sent his daugh-
ter there and up to the time of her
death she had been there nine weeks
and he la paid $3.50. He stated hat
when he received a telegram annOunc-
ing his daughters death, that he wired
from New York to his wife, who was
also at Southern Pines, to have the re-
mains sent to Wilmington n that he
would meet them there.
Captain Kinyon arrived in the city
Sunday and thought the remains would
be here but they were not. When the
remains did not arrive on the II: As train
Monday Captain Kinyon wired to DR..
High to know what was the matter.
He sent three kilograms without re- |
ceiVing a reply and in the meantime
sent one to the operator at Southern
Pines who. in reply, stated that the
remains were still at that place. Later
liz the afternoon a telegram was receiv-
ed from DR.. High stating that the body
would not be released until $3.50, due for
treatment, vas paid.
On Tuesday morning Captain King
y6n, accompanied by Mr.. w. 3. Saw
age. an uncle of the deceased, went 10
Pines. They found that Dr.
High wished $3.50 more than what had
paid and he told them he would
not issue a certificate showing the cause
of death until the amount was paid.
It is necessary to have a certificate
of this kind before n hnf5y can no n1or-
ed on the train and it could not be
removed until such certificate was Sc
cured. In ordinary cases a certificate
unless the person died with a conta-
seou3 disease, can be secured from tno
city superintendent of health, if the
person dies in a town, but in this IN
stance the attending physician was al
so city superintendent of health and
Kinyon stated that he posi-
lively refused to issue a certificate eth
in the capacity of the attending
physician or as the city superintendent
of health. Captain Kinyon then made
DR.. High a proposition in regard to set
ting the amount asked, stating to him
when he left New York he did not
contemplate having to pay any sucn
extra amount above the regular charges
and that he only brought a sufficient
amount Of money with him to defray
the funeral expenses. The physician
still declined to issue the certificate,
but later in the day agreed to The
terms made by Captain Kinyon. The
was then issued and the re-
mains brought to Wilmington.
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