Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-29
Details Of Dis
membefment Of Body |
OF Susanna GeaTy Told al
the Trial Of Dr.. Mcleod. |
witnesses Testify to Later's Connection
With illegal Medical Offices.

Boston, Nov. 2S.-Shocking in its de-
talls, the story of the dismemberme emf
ana disposition of the body of Susanna
"a. Geary, the Cambridge chorus girl,
was rehearsed in the superior criminal
court, To-Day, the second day of the trial
OF DIR. Percy ID. Mcleod, who is charged
with being an accessory to a criminal
operation. The principal witnesses, to-
day, were Louis Crawford and William
Howard, sometimes known as Hunt.
who were arrested in New York; En-
ma Coulter and Sarah Griffith, nurse at
the house on Winthrop street, Roxbury,
where the Geary girl is said to have
died, and DR.. John H. Pettee of Rox-
bury, who testified that he had been
called by DR.. Mcleod to attend a pa
tient at the Winthrop street house.
During the examination of Hunt and
Miss Griffith, it was brought out that
DR.. Mcleod wore mask to conceal his
features when he attended patients at
the house on Winthrop street. Miss
Griffith furthr testified that DR.. Pettee
also wore a mask. Both DR.. Mcleod
and DR.. Pettee, Miss Griffith said, were
masked while the Geary girl was con-
sciOus, but as soon as she became I'M
cOncious they uncovered their faces
and made no attempt to conceal their
identity.
1t was brought out by many Of the
witnesses that DR.. Mcleod was a fire.
quent caller at the Mrs. Bishop" office
on fremont street. where the illegal
operation on Susan Geary is alleged to
have been performed. According to the
testimony, he called regularly, Satur-
day, at the Bishop office to collect the
money due him for his services.
The testimony brought out that DIR.
Mcleod Ibid the outside work" that
is, he had no part in the illegal opera
ton, but did attend to patients upon
whom such operations had been per-
formed.
During his croSS-eXaminatiOn of
Hunt. Attorney James H. Valley, coun-
sci for DR.. Mcleod, asked the witness
if while living in Philadelphia he ever
mad thrown newly born infants into a
furnace or placed the bodies of victims
of his illegal operations in quick lime.
Hunt replied negatively, but admitted
that he had conducted an illegal Office
in Philadelphia and had also performed
illegal operations in Boston. Today's
session closed soon after DR.. Pettee had
taken the stand.
When the trial of DR.. Percy d. Nc
Leod, who is charged with being an ac-
cessory after the fact and with illegal
operation in connection with the death |
of Susan Geary, was resumed, today |
Judge Stevens announced no decision
as to whether the letters which had |
passed between Mrs. Geary. the mother |
bo rial
girls lover would be admitted as evil |
dence.
Louis Crawford, one of the two men
who had pleaded guilty to being ac-
cessories in the case continued his tes-
He stated that for the three or
four months previous to the death of
the Geary girl the treatment of patients |
at the Office Of Mrs DR.. Bishop had |
been done by William Hunt and Mrs. |
Dear. Hunt pleaded guilty, yesterday, |
as an accessory. Mrs. Dean, who has |
been indicted as the principal in the |
case, has not yet been arrested. Ques-
toned as to the meaning of the term
treatment" witness said that by |
treatment he meant the work Of the
office.
Crawford further testified that he
was director of the Bishop establish
nent. He testified also that Mrs. Dean
had asked DR.. Mcleod il he would sign
the death certificate in the case of the
death of the Geary girl and that the
1octor had refused because he did not
care to on account of the frequency Of
ieaths from unlawful operations in
Boston.
Under cross-examination Witness
Crawford said that he knew DR.. Nc
Leod had nothing to do with the I'M
awful operation.
William E. Hunt, who pleaded guilty
With Crawford. was called and repeated
much Of the testimony already given.
Hunt admitted in cross-examination
hat he was under indictment in Phil
adelphia for causing the death Of a
young woman. but he denied that he
performed the operation that led to
he death.