Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-16

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who will write for it, This is sufficient to show
results in "a hours
running to the gate, told Bicycle Po-
liceman Walsh to get the wagon in q
hurry. Meantime a telephone call had
reached the station. and the wagon
had started.
The captain said he called out to the
men on the patrol: Let that boy ride.
He's Christians brother" He saw the
men pushing the frantic brother back.
and shouted those instructions.
He was questioned as to the regula-
tons concerning a patrol wagon. He
said ii was the rule to take an in
jured person to the nearest hospital,
but amended this by saying that a ply
sicians request to go to any other
hospital should be complied with.
He said that the seventh precinct
wagon did every bit of the ambulance
work in the district west Of Rock
Creek. He supposed that the wagon
man wanted to carry out instructions
literally, to get the boy to a hospital
quickly. and not leave the precinct
without a patrol wagon.
He said, however. that Sergt. Nc
euaide could have dropped off the
back OF the wagon as 1t passed out of
ed to the station house to use the
patrol wagon of the adjoining precinc:
for the time il necessary.
Violated His Duty"
Capt Schneider was asked whether
a policeman should leave his post of
duty to get an ambulance when a per-
son lay in a dangerous condition near
at hand. His reply was: IF a police
man refused to go for an ambulance
when a man lay injured he violated
his duty
He also said no policeman would have
been justified in using his club in a sit
uation such as existed at the rear Of the
patrol wagon when the doctors and the
brother were crowding around it, but
might have been justified in threatening
to use IL.
should ride in partol wagon except the
policeman directly interested in the case
Even physicians might be excluded under
an ironbound Interpretation of that rule.
He further stated that he did not be-
lieve there was any unnecessary rough
ness in the case. with the possible excep-
ton OF the manner in which Frank Lear
pushed" Andrew Christian.
Handled Like q Sack"
Dr. Hume, responsible for the state
ment that Archer Christian was hand
iCN INT q sam VI pototOCS, Sdiu W the
jury that he saw no reason why he should
make any change in that comparison.
He said a policeman had jerked the un-
conscious boys arm so that the boys
heal fell out Of DR.. Humes hands, an
accident which the doctors were trying to
prevent.
DR.. Hume explained just how the boy
was jerked by taking hold of juryman's
arm and nearly pulling him of his chair.
He corroborated DR.. Glazebrook's testi-
mony about the request to drive to Provi-
dence Hospital being refused.
George E. Plaster. jr., made the Sc
verest complaint Of rough handling by
policemen.
They handled the injured boy like they
would handle a common drunk.
THE treatment Of Christians brother
was positively the most brutal 1 have
ever seen. The policeman whom Capt
Schneider calls Lear struck him two or
three times and jounced him with his
knee"
James F. Kelly. a newspaper man, gave
a statement as to offering his automo-
bile to the physicians and being told
than an ambulance was the only thing
they could use.
Lear Explains His Course.
Frank Lear's testimony was listened to
intently. He is in charge Of the patrol
wagon. but is not the driver.
He said some one showed him as he
was helping to lift Archer Christian to
the stretcher, which might have accounted
for jerking the boys arm. He made the
positive statement that he showed An
drew Christian off the rear of the wagon,
but did not hit with his closed fist, as
witnesses had said.
He understood his duty to be that he
should take any patient to the nearest
hospital. He said he heard no request to
go to Providence Hospital.
And. besides. Georgetown University
Hospital is five blocks away. Providence
IL twenty eight blocks off,"
Lear said there was tremendous con-
fusion at the back of the ambulance, and
people were pushing and pulling and
yelling. He evidently paid little attention
to what they were yelling. for he said he
did not understand that the boy in foot
ball toys who was making frantic efforts
to climb on the step was in any way
related to the injured boy.
His testimony was that Andrew. Chris
tian gave him good tussle, grabbing him
fairly around the waist and nearly pulling
him to the ground. Finally. when Sergt
McQuade told Lear to let Andrew on, the
struggle stopped and the brother was al
lowed to ride.
There was a discrepancy Of testimony
between the sergeant and Frank Lear
The latter said he was in charge of the
wagon at all times, and a sergeant had
no command over ito Sergt. McQuade
said he was always Frank Lear's supe-
rior. on and off the wagon.
Later when questioned closely, he said
orders to the driver. In this he differed
from Capt. Schneider. who said the SER
geants presence on the wagon put him in
full charge.
Sergt McQuade was positive in his
statement that he would leave any post of