Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-16
RELATIVES OF MAupE STONE
GATHER EVIDENCE AGAINST
DR.. cRoFFoRD.
STRONG EVIDENCE TO
BE MADE AT HEARING
Miss Stones Friends Claim to Have
Evidence That Not Only One, But
Two, Criminal Operations Were Per-
formed-Newspapers Supporting the
Cosson Laws.
Special to Times Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept 16.-That the
claim of DR.. Artemus Brown, of Des
Moines, that an abortion was commit
ted on Miss Maude Stone, of Leon, be-
fore she Went TO DR.. j. w Crofford, at
Lamont, is not a new element in the
case will be one of the claims laid be-
fore Governor Carroll by the Lamont
people. who are contending against the
pardon of Crofford as recommended by
the state board of parole.
An examina ton into the evidence in
the case as it was presented to the
district court shows that Maude Stone
was al the sanatoriurn Of Crofford in
August, 1900, testimony being given to
that effect and that she went there
again on Jan. -. 1901, and died there
Jan. % 1901. Just before she died DR.
Crofford wrote TO the girls mother
saying the girl was at his sanatorium
dangerously Ill and that she was TAX
en- on train severely; got off al depot
and came TO sanatorium and has been
here ever since"
A score of witnesses We're intro
duced by the state who saw the girl
get off the train at Lamont and knew
her and swore that she showed no evil
dence of being sick in the least but
looked the picture of health. One or
Two witnesses who had not known her
before testified TO seeing her. her
health and beauty attracting their at
tertion. All OF this was offered to Show
that the girl was in perfect health
when she entered the sanatorium and
could not have been suffering from ap-
pendicitis and colitis as DR. Crofford
maintained. Colitis is Inflammation of
a part of the intestine. the colon It
also negatives the claim now made
more than six years after Crofford's
trial by DR.. Brown that the girl came
TO see him and told him the operation
had already been performed
On the trial of the case Dr. Brown
testified to Hypothetical question.
saving that under certain conditions.
which conditions were those supposed
to have been found al the posunorrem
examination, death would not have re-
suited in seven days. as in this in
4 stance, but would have taken about
| fifteen. The weight of testimony. how
ever. was that death would come in
side of two and seven days.
Letters written by Ira Hammond
4 the young man in the case. were Of
fered in evidence TO show that the CIR
was in trouble in August, 1909, that she
made arrangements and told her par
ents she was going 70 visit friends in
! Lamont. but that she never visited
them, and a few days later was seen
driving away from Crofford's sanator-
ium with Hammond.
DR.. Eiker. of Leon, also testified that
I in August. 1900, Maude Stone an6
Hammond had visited him to have ar
examination made of Miss Stone. Evil
dence was further introduced to show
that Hammond was at the Croffor(
sanatorium On Jan u. 1901, just twelve
days before Maude Stone entered thu
hospital for the last time on this
4 occasion she had told her parents she
was going 10 visit in Nj. Ayr. but wen
to Lamont and from the train wen
straight to Crofards sanatorium.
! Emory Driscoll who testified in the
case. said he was at the sanatoriuir
| suffering from necrosis of the bont
| of the leg when Hammond was there
on Jan II and when Maude Stone
entered the institution Jan. %. and fur.
ther that Crofford advised MIN to g
| down into Missouri - as 10 avoid hav-
I ing to testify in the trial. He ais
! testified that the relatives of Maudi
Stone paid his car fare back to lowe
50 he could testify
One witness. whom the defense
claims to have impeached for trutf
and morality. and whom the stats
/ claims was not successfully impeach
4 ed. testified that DR. Crofford told hel
/ ne had committed criminal operation
on Maude Stone.
1t is understood that the relatives o
Maude Stone who are fighting agains
/ the pardon will present evidence along
these lines to the governor when the,
get a hearing They claim that Crof
ford performed one operation on th'
Il girl in August. 1900. which was sue
4 cessful. and that he also perforne;
another in January, 1901. which killed
her They claim there is every evi
dence 10 show that she was in perfect
health when she entered the sanator
ium Jan. % and no evidence outside o
the word Of Dr. Brown TO show tina
an operation had already been per
formed previous to that date.
Only four republican papers and tw'
democratic papers have been found il
!, tlle state thus far that are taking posi-
! tons against the Cosson law for tn
removal of public officials for drunken
/ ness in office and neglect of duty TIL
/ republican papers and the Cedar Rapid
| Republican, the Iowa City Repu biiicsl1
the Odebolt Chronicle and the Mario.
Register. The democrat papers are tn
Burlington Gazette and a little dem
ocratic paper near Marengo, the nam
of which is uninportant.
Hundreds Of newspapers in the stat,