Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-20
CHARGES AGAINST
DOCTOR IGNORED
BY FREEH0LDERS
No Probe of Alleged Misbehavior
at Overlook Has Yet
Been Started.

Physicians. nurses. attendants, free
ing today if a certain doctor. who is
said to boast of his pull at the county
institution, will be successful in pre-
venting the freeholders from taking
some action on the most recent charges
that this doctor, while drunk, attacked
a pretty nurse at the institution. There
are also vague charges that this same
doctor has been charged with attacking
female patients, and has generally up
set what little was left OF the discipline
at the county institution.
1t was declared today that only as
recently as last week this doctor made
an exhibition of himself in a Market
street saloon, and vas forcibly eject
ed. That night, when he went 10 the
Overlook institution, it is said, he
roared like a lion, causing great excite
ment among the patients, n 1t was
necessary, it is said, for one of the
huskiest attendants in the place to
handle him n finally get him to sleep.
The fact of the attack on The nurse
was brought to the notice of the hos
pital committee yesterday. DR.. Daniel
M. Dill, medical superintendent at the
asylum, made the statement. and i'm
mediately the greatest efforts were
made to suppress the details. An
executive session was held, and at it's
conclusion all those present were asked
to refrain from talking or mentioning
the name of the doctor or the nurse.
One of the f~reeholders present, how
ever, refused to be so bound, and it is
said that the names OF the doctor and
the nurse are 0 pretty generally
known.
DR.. John O.. CASTOR. It became known
today, has written a letter to Free
holder Theodore Gottlieb. in (which he
says that this doctor has boosted of his
pull with the freeholders. declaring that
they didn't dare investigate or fire"
him and that he would eventually Dust
DR.. CASTOR.
Doctor Has ApoIogized.
DR.. Dill said today that he had in
vestigated the alleged attack on the
nurse. and hat the nurse had declared
that while the story of the attack was
true the doctor has since apologized to
her and hat the incident is now closed.
1t was stated today hat Freeholder
Gottlieb has been harassed to a GER
tain extent by some of the other free
holders. 1t Is declared that some Of
the freeholders refer to him as muck
raker," and are trying to make it I'M
pleasant for him. On the other hand.
those who are trying to find out the
real truth as to the conditions at the
county institution are ~applauding Free
holder Gottlleb's stand. It is related
that a request of Freebooter Gottlieb
for a small cabinet stand to keen
records al the institution was turned
down cold. although the expense was
trifing.
DR.. DilPs charge that d~ysentery had
broken out ia the hospital as the re-
suit Of bad meat and unclean milk
cans was taken up at another execu-
tive meeting yesterday. What trans
pired at the meeting was not disclosed.
DR.. Dill exhibited craps of meat to
the committee which he claimed had
been taken from one of the kitchens
twenty-four hours previous. The scraps
were examined by the committee and
are said to have been offensive. DR..
Guy Payne, one of the assistant ply
~sicians, was with DIR. Dill before the
committee. How the committee finally
settled the matter was kept a secret,
but 1t is understood that DR.. Dill was
told that he ought to have notified
Warden Steadman so that an investi-
cation could have been made mmedi
ately. Mr.. Steadman heard nothing.
however, and DR.. Dill preferred to go to
the committee direct.
Inquired About Men.
DR.. Mccormick was called before the
committee to state what he knew about
complaints that special fresh milk
which had been delivered for the
3~-weeks-old baby of a patient had
never reached the child. The nurse of