The Detroit times., 1908-04-07
OPERATED IN HOPE
OF SAv|NG MISS
PRESLEY'S LIFE
--DR. h. HORTON BARR.
GIRLS CONDITION INDICATED
PREVIOUS OPERATION OF GRIM
INAL NATURE, OWNER OF SAN.
IrARiuM TEsTIFiEs.
-DR. h. HORTON BARR.

| After an interruption OF pTdclcahy
two days. including Sunday and a
Monday devoted largely to arguments
relative to the prosecutors request
for permission to add new names to
the information, the taking Of testi-
mony In the Ward granddaughter case
was resumed In Judge Connolly's court
Tuesday morning.
DIR. B. Horton Barr, head OF the
Hope Sanitarium. was the principal
witness OF the morning session, ana
she was still on the stand when court
adjourned at noon She Is being treat
cd as hostile witness by the prose
| cution.
DIR. Barr said she graduated from
the Michigan College of Medicine and
Surgery in 1900. The first time she
ever heard of Edith Presley was on
Saturday. April 40, though not by that
name. On the evening OF that day,
the doctor said, a woman's voice In
quired over the telephone II she could
accommodate another patient and she
said yes" About 20 minutes later.
the doctor related. young woman
whom she afterwards knew as Miss
Presley came into the sanitarium. She
gave her name as Mary e. Hall. Of
Saginaw, said that she occupied a
clerical position, that she was suffer.
ing from hemorrhoids and that her
physician had advised her to come to
Detroit to be operated on.
"She said the doctor had told her
| 1t might give rise to. suspicion II she
were operated on in her. home city,
explained the witness, -, :, -, /
Couldn't Find Another Place.
DIR. Barr said that on account Of the
presence OF another patient. Emma
Bailey, In the same room with Miss
| Presley she advised the latter to- look
elsewhere for accommodations, and
that Miss Presley, accordingly. went
out Sunday morning, the day follow
ing her arrival In the sanitarium, iir
quest OF another place. She returned
at noon, went out again In the after
noon and once more came back In
| the evening after an unsuccessful
search. She had been unable to find
any satisfactory place and decided to
remain.
| That night, DIR. Barr testified, Miss
Presley seemed to be disturbed. She
next saw the girl about 8 O'Clock Mon
day morning, when Miss Presley again
went out In search OF other quarters.
| She returned at noon and said, ac-
cording to the Witness:
I'm going to stay here. I'm ILL.,"
DR.. Barr said she then made inquiry
as TO the girls condition and found
that 1t was rather serious. She called
up the offices of two doctors. DR..
| Scriber and DR.. Meddaugh, but was
unable to get either OF them. Then
she called DR.. Fritch and after an
hour and a half succeeded In getting
In communication with him.
Dr. Barr testified that DIR. Fritch
asked her over the telephone what
the trouble was and that she replied
she did not know. She told him. how
ever, she said that the patient was a
woman and that he should come pre-
pared. He brought only his regular
medical case, DR.. Barr stated.
Operation Not Criminal.
| The operation, as described by the
witness, was not Of a criminal charac.
ter but was performed In the hope OF
saving the girls life. as claimed by
the defense. DR.. Barr said that Miss
Presley was seized with chill whilc
she was walking to the operating
room and that chills are one OF the
first symptoms of septicemis In the
operating room, witness introduced
Miss Presley to DIR. Fritch and the
girl then said:
Il may as we'll tell you now that
I am not suffering from hemorrhoids."
| Miss Presley then confessed that
she was In trouble, whereupon she
was examined by Drs. Barr and Fritch
and her statement corroborated. DR..
Barr declared that her condition was
such at that time as to indicate a
previous operation OF a criminal ma.
ture.
| DR.. Miriam Fisk. also sworn Tues
day morning. testified that girl With
dark brown hair, who called herself
Mary Hall. Of Saginaw. called at her
Office on Beaubien.st., April 20, 1907.
asked IL arrangements had been made
for her care, and spoke OF correspond
ence which, the visitor took for grant
ed, had passed between them. Dr.
Fisk said she told the young woman
that no such correspondence had pass
ed and that there had evidently been
q mistake. The defense will show
that Edith Presley's hair. was light
colored and not dark brown.
Judge Connolly. Monday afternoon,
refused to allow the prosecution TO en-.
dorse the names Of Mrs. Emma Bailey
and Stenographer Herbert r. Bliss on
the information. He permitted the
name Of Dr. W. s. Crimes. county ply
stefan, to be added. however. DR..
Grimes attended the Bailey woman
Il .