The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-14
BUFFALO HOSPITAL RAIDED.
HOboken Girl Died There--Traces OF
Another Victim.

BUFFALO, Sept. lS.-~Following a racket
early Wednesday morning in a house at
iOl Niagara street, this city, run as a mater
nifty hospital by DR.. ". w. TurveT, a practi-
toner Of very unsavory reputation, the
police sought the doctor in an energetic
way. The ~neighbors had reported that
the doctor had seemed to go mad, smashed
the furniture and the windows, and then
disappeared up the street, while a nurse
who lived in the house disappeared in the
opposite direction.
The police found the lower part of the
house all wreckage. Under rubbish in the
cellar was found a heap Of women's clothes
Of good quality.
In the bedroom stood a trunk marked
e. W. X, Phila.' The police broke open
the trunk and found letters addressed To
Gertrude Knight, with the further address
ia North Nineteenth street, PHILADELPHIA.
The detectives Of the Headquarters star
were set to work Immediately, and Turver
was nabbed in the late afternoon and
Put through the third degree, but all that
he would say was that mo murder has
been done in my house. The police then
gathered from the neighbors Of the ma
ternlty hospital their story Of the early
morning rumpus.
1t was o $50 o'clock yesterday morn
ing when word was sent to the Pearl street
station by telephone that a murder was
being committed in DR.. Turver's hos
Pltal' Inc that was given
over the telephone was that a woman
only partially dressed had leaped through
one OF the rear indow and that DR.. TIjr-
yer, welding an axe, pursued her in the
yard, then went back into the house, after
wnlch the curtains on the inside Of the
rear windows were pulled up one by one
and the axe sent crashing through nearly
every pane of glass. Half a dozen poIice-
men were sent to the hospital on the mn
h they reached there the front door
OF the hospital was locked, as were ali the
other entrances. The windows in the
rear Of the building had been smashed
corroborating the information from the
n~elghbors. The officers forced an entrance
into the hous and found the interior in
disorder. Z"
This morning the police located Mortimer.
Prouty, the Undertaken who has bu ried
Turver's dead. He says that last SATURDAY
night Turver told him there was a womanis
body at the Prospect avenue place that
had TO be removed. She was Edith Pinner.
or Penner, q years old, Of Hoboken, ". ].
Prouty had the body embalmed and shipped
IL to Hoboken. Turver first made our The
certificate in the name OF Edith Rennupp.
but Prouty said he met relatives Of tba
girl, who said her name was Pinner. and he
refused to act until the certificate had been
changed.
On September 4 Prouty called M tha
Turver plAce to get the body OF a stiiIborn
child. The name Of the father was given
as George Rennupp, and that OF the mother
as Ada Rennupp. Turver explained 10
Prouty that he did not know the girls riOht
name-that Rennupp was the name abe had
entered the hospital under.
Prouty was not detained by the police.
They bent all their enegries to finding the
woman TO whom belonged the trunk mSrEsd
e. W. K" So far they have nod Euo-
ceeded IN 9nding Q eoEpVAd eli0tL q -xhiohI