The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-19
A Card From DR.. Foster.

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"A Card From DR.. Foster.
Editor Of The Times ID ispatch:
day and to-day hat th apt testi Gf yestes
board NAV 10 Do he g ns BY me before the
some errors which. II not expIninad
m may o. oe m1nis.understood. and thereby do
no desire us 10 n,as Feeling that you have
light before the public, i ind u W'G }hs
nope that you will publish the foIIowo
.nas l had INDUCED in criticism OF ths
fhp awa o. board. etc. was as follows: Il
board. and the Senate OF Virginia hS
u'a vote. decided that my criti-
ioeai m we5s Just st have criticized the
publicly, because. in reply to a cues.
ton by the chairman OF the Legislatiye
an sel.i Committee. II he had sold
hospital he a.fe ensw. or Indirectly to this
Is fact that SIS worth Of corn was
f haned from by M his bar, barn. IN his wagon
driiver. to the hospital farm. and re-
SSeipt for same sent to him BY tho
earn carIne Is he did not deny, that the
AZ team. to the hospital farm, but. on
t contrary. stated That the steward
nae nad contracted s with Mr.. Bloxton for
4
he. Cole. filled the contract for MIR
Bloxton. Is 1t not strange that the
steward $ Of this hospital should make
ne had none to SELF He did deny that
the farmer sent him receipt for the
ataa N b. q the fact
statement OF the farmer. S '"otn
State OF Virginia,
county OF James City-to-wit:
l. E, 3. Hudgins, do solemnly swear
uary; 1905. Mr. Coles driver rir b br Seh
t TO nae "a Eastern ha Hospital farm about
MS driver statement and receipt for
the same In the name OF III. d. Cole,
ana f, s slgned ,, my name at the bottom Of
the month OF February 190s-Mr. II
D. Cole came to the farm. and told ma
nished the corn I must tell them that
II was Mr.. Bloxton's corn, and told
Mr.. Cole that would tell them what
never saw Mr.. Bloxton on the farm
since l have been on the farm; and 1
further u swear that, Mr.. Archer Brooks
knew how much corn Mr. Bloxton had
brought there. and she said none Hs
then came TO me and asked mo the
Bloxton had brought there-and I told
him none. but Mr.. Coles driver had
brought some.
Given under my hand this. the 18th
lsIgned) E. B. HUDGINs.
a, sworn % 1.s to before so1 me this the 18th
r.. 7. ARM1sTEAp.
| regret exceedingly that this wit
Il did criticize the Commissioner OF
hospitals and the general board for
easing sins an order at their July meeting
the commissioner $50 for travelling ex-
penses In excess Of the 5000 allowed
by law. because the. last Legislature
preparation for any hospital shall Be
sioner;," See Acts OF Assembly, 1905.
!, In, In order that you may understand the
Justice OF the, criticism. give. a. copy
Of the, record Of the general board
y the Attorney General, given In 1905.
ia in no way apply to this PROPOSE
:, ".on motion, the expense account OF
# State Hospitals, from October l. 1908,
uE M 9es eaa and the to en ss5
te was sfasrsa The szn ito ae
pnef by sw and ii is nrs
state hospitals. and the clerk OF this
It once to the respective hospitals a
opy OF this resolution. requesting the
' "a Of $50 each to the said COM
I did criticize two members EN- ss. Of the
he award was, made, and since the
tatement has been uenied by. H. D.
,ole, T refer any one who doubts the
tatement made by me as being correct
yard Echols and Senator +. s. Taven-
Ter for gubstantiatlon Of the state
lent in ,1 thu as Fl; D; Cole acknoWl-
zen. In the month of February 1906
\ the city Of Richmond, that this was
one I desire to state that this ,prac-
Ice Wa YES only INDUCED a{,a hn n While Cloves
t was not practiced before 1908, nor
lnce the Cloves Investigation.
:; Your c COZ. ,n"I says:"The sup
ane and II. D. Cole / will answer
us statement 1. by saying that the wit
ess kept his seat and preserved the
on, and II anything unseemly han
ened, It was on the part of the chair
ian and H. d. Cole.
You. Your correspondent states chat
'me OF the citizens Of this town to
a,y have satisfied the. board on this
lie taxpayers of the propriety Of the
mr. Of Hospitals taking His
lends to the hospital store to drink
hiskey which was. purchased for the
,an IN nd thid bn ms and which had
e drug room to the store against the
Very respectfully,
=, supt Eastern state Sta Hasp tt