The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-29

Mss TingIey. a Palama Settlement
nurse, Was yesterday the victim OF as
shabby a bit Of ingratitude as was
probably ever experienced by anyone
IN Hawaii. Despite the fact that for
some time she mas oeen nursing a
neg1ess, suffering from heart trouble.
mlhlsterng to the sick woman in the
Vineyard street slums and doing il in
the name OF charity, when the woman
! dIed Yesterday afternoon her friends
turned upon the nurse, accused her of
having been the cause OF the woman ;
death heaped insult and abuse upon
her and threatened to do her bodily
injury
The dead woman was Mrs. Garner,
the widow of Alex. Garner, the negro
who was murdered in a drunken row
some months ago Her friends were
the three negroes supposed to be i'm
phcated with the escape from jail of
the murderer Grace, and others of the
same Vineyard street stripe Of ignor-
ance and ingrained viciousness For
some, time the woman had been treated
at the dispensaTy and at her home by
ter in her worst attacks by Miss Ting
ley. Yesterday, message came to the
nurse, who IS in the Settlement dis
pensary near Camp No. >. that the
woman had had fainting spell The
nurse hurried over, saw that the woman
was unconscious and FASTENED to give
stimulants. She forcer some whisky into
the woman s mouth and held a phial
= j
ne effect and closer examination by
the nurse showed that the woman was
dead
AS soon as this was announced. the
negroes began to mutter and one took
possession Of the ammonia bottle, which
he shifted. The pungent odor stagger-
ed him and he Immediately shouted that
the nurse had given the woman poison.
In the meanwhile Miss Tingley mott,
fed Doctor Mackall that the death had
occurred and he issued death certifi-
cate. giving the cause as heart
disease, and notified the undertaken
that there was funeral to be held
at the county 5 expense. When the.
undertaken called for the body, how
ever. he was met by the negro gang.
the members of which refused TO give
the body up.
Doctor Mackall went to the camp
and met, with the same sort of abuse
Miss Tingley had. and again the charges
of having Killed the woman were made
against the nurse Mackall, seeing how
things were, got the sheriff to step in
and order an autopsy, in order definitely
to settle the question as to the cause of
death. Under police surveillance, the
body was taken away from the negroes.
and last night an autopsy was per-
formed in the presence of Doctor Sex
ton. who had been retained by the
negroes to watch of Doctor Mackall
and the sheriff, Doctor EmersOn per
forming the autopsy.
The result was to confirm the cause
of death stated by the city physician,
the certificate of Doctor Emerson being
to the effect that death had resulted
from valvular disease of the heart and
myocarditis (infammation) The result
of the autopsy, of course, clears Miss
Tingley of any blame in the matter,
although no one but the most ignorant
would ever have blamed her What she
did. in the opinion of the physicians.
was exactly the proper thing to have
done
II consider that this attack upon
Miss Tingley is one of the most dis
graceful things / have ever seen. and
an evidence of more ungratefuIness
than / could ever have expected from
anyone" stated Doctor MackaI last
night, who praised Miss Tingley as an
untiring and faithful nurse and one of
the most competent in the city.
In view of the threats that have been
made against her by the Vineyard street
gang. however, Miss Tingley will be
transferred to dispensary in some
other part of the city, superintendent
Rath so stating last night.