The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-03-17
DR.. Frank Boyd and J. +. Mich.
olson in One Case.
DIR. Boyd Says There is Not the
Slightest Foundation For the
Charge Against Him.
ALSO TWO OTHER WARRANTS.

lefestlnB ana unexpected features
before II Is disposed of by the courts,
came to light this afternoon when
warrants were issued by Police Judge
Sanders against DIR. Frank Boyd and
J. f. Nicholson for alleged failing to
report case of smallpox.
Warrants were at the same time
issued against two negroes named
Griffin. who run boarding house at
Second and Clark streets. for alleged
wilfully concealing the existence of
smallpox.
Health Officer w. 7. Graves was at
the city hall this morning and fur
nished the information on which the
warrants are based. The warrants
themselves were not issued until this
afternoon, before which time DR..
Boyd had heard of the proceeding
and gone to the city hall and ac-
knowledged service, no bond being
required.
DR.. Boyd said to a reporter that
the warrant is most unjust towards
him, as he has never concealed a
single case of smallpox. and would
easily have been ascertained by the
health officer.
"All | know about this case" DR..
Boyd said, is that several weeks ago
Mr.. Nicholson sent for me. | found
him in his home over Smiths barber
shop on South Third street near
Broadway, suffering from headache,
and fever and as we often do in such
cases, asked him II he had been ex-
posed to smallpox. He said he had
not, asked me why, and | jokingly
told him that If he had been exposed
| might think he was taking small
pox. | instructed him TO send for
me the following day If he was no
better, and he said he would.
II never heard from him again,
and never called on him or treated
him. The next time | saw him was
a short time ago, when he called me
and asked me If remembered what
had told him., and when did not,
he reminded me that | asked him IL
he had been exposed to smallpox.
He then told me that two or three
days later he broke out with the dis
ease, and didn't let anyone know
anything about It. He said he had
it two or three weeks, and when he
got well burned large quantity of
sulphur in his room, and had taken
other precautions for fumigating
the premises. told him he had vio-
lated the law in not reporting 1t
when he discovered he had smallpox
and could be handled for 1t, but II
wasn't my duty to make a report of
what he told me, and which |
didn't know to be true. | was not
the mans doctor and knew no more
about his having smallpox than the
health officer, This is all there is to
the case, and don't understand why
a man should be treated In such a
manner as this when the most curse
ny investigation would have shown
that there were not the slightest
grounds for getting a warrant against
me-"
In the charge against the negroes,
the city seems to have sure case
The health officer states that negro
who was recently taken to the pest
house told them that he knew where
there's some NOAH, but dey wants
to keep II quiet"
lie finally said II was in Griffin's
boarding house at Second and Clark
and there they found Bud Ellis with
a fully developed case.
Mr., Nicholson is a well-known in
suranoe man who has been living
over the barber shop for sometime
past,
Mr.. Nicholson was this afternoon
arrested by Ofheer Johnson and gave
bond, The cases will come up to-
morrow morning.
In DR.. Boyd's case a mistake has
evidently been made, and he will
easily show that he knew nothing
about Mr.. Nicholson having smallpox
These cases are the first of their
kind In quite while. There has
been a great deal of complaint In re-
gard TO smallpox cases not being re-