The Washington herald., 1910-02-02
WOMEN ON STAND
IN COURT MARTIAL
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merely of holding a pencil before the
patients eyes. and asking HIM what It
was. Mr.. Wilbur said that DR.. CowIes
declared nothing was the matter with
Frank, but had named a kind OF medi-
cine he was using He had never said
anything about using mental healing.
ga Medical Quack."
DIT. Harvey then took the stand. and
following him DR.. John W. Sanborn. who
had treated Frank Wilbur before and
after Cowles had the case. He considered
that Cowles was "a medical quack' from
his own observations. from the drugs that
he left for the patient, and from what
Mrs. Wilbur had told him OF the method
Of treatment.
Miss Swift was the next witness. She
said: ''On the Tuesday before the hop
Miss Margaret Ames came I'D TO my
house and told me she had something to
speak 10 me about She said she had a
little scandal TO tell me. and she asked
me II knew Of the gOings on Of DR..
Cowles and Miss Hesler aboard a tug
going down the harbor 10 a dance at
Fort Warren. I told her that I had not
heard anything. that I went down on
the tug myself, and that I had seen moth
ing improper. Miss Ames then said that
It must have been on the way back but I
told her that I, too, had come back on
the tug, but had seen nothing out Of the
way.
Indignant at DIR. COyyIes.
Miss Ames told me that she had oc-
casion TO go over 10 DR.. Cowles' house 10
see Mrs. Cowles. Of whom she thinks very
highly, and when the doctor came out 10
greet her she said: Don't speak to me.
If il wasn't for your wife I wouldn't
notice you again."
Miss Swift admitted that Miss Anes'
manner TO Paymaster Aud during the
discussion OF DR.. Cowles eligibility as a
dance guest might have been such as TO
lead 70 believe she would not mind the
exclusion of DR.. Cowles, II Mrs. Cowles
were admitted
Miss Hesler, OF Evanston. Ill, followed
Miss Swift as a witness for the defense.
did DR.. Edward S. CoWIes ever render
himself objectionable to YOU" asked Mai.
Leonard.
yes. sir"
Did Dr. Cowles make himself IN
pleasant at the dance preceding that OF
December 11T'
Il don't think so.
DO you remember when DR.. Cowles
took your photograph"
mo I don't I wasn't at home"
Did he keep it with your APPRECIATION"
mo"
Did you ever request him TO return it?"
Yes; wrote and I called Mrs. Cowles
over the telephone. and she said she
would deliver the message"
Mrs. Cowles, wife Of the complainant,
testified:
Il heard that the incident was closed
and went to Washington and called on
Secretary Meyer. I asked him why no
action had been taken in the case. He
said that the affair was the most scan
dalous in the navy, and that he did not
want to take any action. The Score
tary said that the matter ought not IN
be aired; that It was bad enough as II
was. He said that he did not know Aud
but that he and Admiral Swift were
friends. and that he did not care TO
take any action in the matter
Then I went TO see Senator Lodge
He read the charges and he told me m
wait until 5 o'clock that evening, and that
he would take care of things with Secre-
tary Meyer.
That afternoon at o'clock Senator
Lodges secretary telephoned me that
everything was all right I went the next
day to see Secretary Meyer again. He
asked his secretary II the letter he had
written in that Boston matter had been
sent. and the secretary said It had NOT
He told the man TO hold It up and bs
would write another letter. CThe other
letter was the reprimand).
Il saw Senator Lodge again that dsv
and he told me the matter had been re-
ferred TO the judge advocate general
went to Washington instead of nv bus-
band because woman can see wberA
man can't"
Mrs Cowles said that when her bus-
band was ordered from the dance she did
not believe any personal insult was In
tended for her.