Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-11-30

Bauer having been in the asylum.
The STAR submitted this exidcnee
20 the grand jury late this afternoon
aud Mrs. Kieswetter was immediately
taken before that body aud told brr
story.
An attempt was made to see DR.
Daniel NJ. Dill. who is in charge OF the
Overbrook asylum, today, but he was
rot at the asylum. DR.. Mccormick.
who was in charge, was reached. He
said:
Mary Anne Bauer. long time pa
ticnt here died on August 3 Hast &c
pneumonia. On her death We looked
Up the records and found an address,
70 Washington street. Newark. Our
records showed that none Of the rela-
tives of the patient had visited her In
two years. and when we got no re-
sponse from the Washington street adj
dress, the body was turned over to an
undertaken for burial We knew moth
ling more of the case until yesterday,
when Mrs Mayow, Of &c Washington
avenue. Irvington. called up and asked
about her mother"
| In contradiction of the statement Of
Dr. Mccormick that 26 Washington
street, Newark. is the only address that
the hospital authorities had, are the
statements of Mrs. c. w. Mayow, who
for fourteen years has lived at 26
Washington avenue, 1rvington, only one
block from the home whence her
mother was taken to the asylum thirty
years ago, and of Mrs. Edwin Kies-
wetter. of 1S3 Clinton avenue. this city.
both of whom have visited the hospital
many times during their residence aE
the numbers given above.
Mrs. Mayow. whose husband is let
ter carrier connected with the Irving
ton Office told the STAR today thar
she had visited the hospital probably
three hundred times in the last thirty
years and that both at the old asylum
on South Orange avenue and the new
one at Overbrooz she WIS well known
Mrs. Kieswetter told the same story
and refuted the story of DIR. McCor-
mick that none of the sisters had
visited the mother in two years, by
telling of visit to the asylum made
about ten months ago.
''At that time l was accompanied by
my son, Edwin, jr., II years old Net
/ only was my name taken by the offi-
cials but that of my son as well. SO
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relatives in the asylum at period of
six or seven months previous to my
mothers death. In fact my son signed
our names in the register at the time"
TT is true" said both Mrs. Kies-
wetter and Mrs. Mayow to a reporter
today, that we did not go to the hos
pital frequently of late years. The
condition of our mother was hopeless
so far as we were concerned
Continuing, Mrs. Mayow. who is the
eldest daughter, said: by her condi-
| tion being hopeless to us, mean that
! she did not recognize us when we yis-
tied her. 1t was only pain and sorrow
for US to visit her, for she could not
remember any of US, no matter how
hard we tried to make her.
1--WE thought she was being well
treated at the hospital and was as con-
tented as one in her position could be.
| She was harmless and worked in the
hospital kitchen year after year. But
| her children were entirely forgotten.
and, as l say, it only increased our
! sorrow every time we would visit her
and she would not recognize US
"As to our not visiting her in Two
years. that is wrong absolutely wrong.
] have been there two or three times
in that period, while Mrs Kieswetter
was there about six months before she
died.
Even when we did not go to the
hospital some one of us called up FREE
quently to keep in touch with her con-
ciition. We were always told she was
all right and Just in the same condi-
/ ton.
why, it was only October % last
that ! called up and was told that she
was all right; just the same And
she had been dead and buried almost
three months at that time"
At the hospital it is said, there y
no record of anyone calling up and
asking for Mrs. Bauer's condition on
October 25. But at the same time il i
edmitted that records of telephone calls
asking for the condition of patients
are not kept on the hospital books.
The fact that Mrs. Bauer was dead.
and had been for almost three months.
came to the sisters and brothers IN .
roundabout way. After Mrs. Mayow
had called up the hospital on octVbar
% and was informed that her mother
was ..all right. information came To-
her through visitor at the asylum.
| who knew Mrs. Bauer who had been