The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-29
Unable toShow That Ink
Was Injected Into
Dying Boy 'sArm.
RAPS DR.. CABELL
In DRAMATIC WAY
Declares That City Home Super
intendent Had No Right to
Parade His Former Attic
ton to Hide Mistakes ct
Institutio o with
draws Accusations.

without proving his charge that lnl
instead Of a solution Of adrenalin chic.
ride had been injected into the arm ol
a patient at the City Home, Thomas L
Pulling. former inmate and nurse. last
night withdrew his accusations agains,
the institution and stated to the Coun-
Gil Committee on Relief CT the POOR
that he would make no further efforts
to be reinstated as an smp.oye hfte;
hearing the evidence the committee
adopted a resolution to the effect tina,
no harm had been cone tie patient and
that no one had been guilty of lnten-
tional wrong or negligence.
Snook Indiscreet.
THE committed" said the resolution
SIS satisfied shat no Ink was injected
/ but that a therapeutic agent applicable
] to the disease with which the patien,
/ was suffering. and prescribed BY the
attending physician was used"
At the request OF Councilman
I Hirschberg an amendment was adopt.
| ed. saying that the First Assistant Su
| perintendent. Pharmacist Shook. wa,
| indiscrset in remarking to The nurse
/ that the solution looked like Ink. Th;
action of the head nurse. Miss yenaole
was indorsed by the committee.
| Pulling handled his case like prac.
tical lawyer. and questioned nearly
every witness. When the last witness
| was brought before the committee he
| said that he had decided to let the
| matter drop, and would make no fur.
ther effort toward reinstatement.
He thought that by bringing the mat
ter before the committee he could make
1t clear that he had been unjustfy
treated. but he did not care to tres
pass on the time of the members
IN fr-fpr 4 Ir<.I..
| anything more against the institution.
He said that he might bring at least a
dozen witnesses, but that now he did
not care for reinstatement
Fss,fns quite Dramatic.
In closing his case Pulling was dra-
matte:
Il think" he said, that Miss Ven
sble has done me an injustice and that
DIR. Cabell has been hiding the mistakes
, of the institution behind my affliction.
saying that having been an inmate Of
the insane asylum was not man to
be believed 1t was an unjust, unman-
! 1y and ungentleman.y thing to do"
AS Pulling completed the sentence
DR.. cabell rose to his feet and with
some heat denied it. Apparently it
was in his mind to say something more,
but he sat down just as every member
of the committee seemed primed Tor a
hot retort, in spite of the fact that
both meh were absolutely calm.
ut is true" continued Pulling. that
was committed to the asylum. II
was not my fault or my misfortune.
1t was purely physical. and no dis
grace. ! have decided to take my dis
charge as final and do not care to press
the matter further. 1 admit that 1
was incompetent; SO were the others.
laap ~, feeltncSs m
Commended by DR.. CnbelI.
Pulling was the first witness called
He said that he had been employed a
nurse October 2 by Superintendent
Cabell and that he had been SOM
mended for his work by DR.. Cabell and
Miss Bagby. who was on duty In the
absence of the head nurse. Miss Ven
able, Ater she had returned from
her vacation. started the trouble, he
said, and discharged him without
cause. He added that he had been done
great injustice by the head nurse, and
that she had not conducted herself
properly with the nurses or the pa
tients. She found fault with the
nurses, he said. and frequently with
the patients
Chairman Hobson brought him down
to the ink question. He said that
Robert Harbena. travelling represen-
tative of a circus, was brought to the
hospital suffering with typhoid fever,
and died October a. When the case
became critical the solution was orr
dered by the attending physician. Miss
Davis, one of the nurses, he said. gave
the first injection and the needle left
a dark spot on the mans arm and also
a black spot on the bed where the
syringe had been laid.
Calling attention to the spots, he
stated that he asked Miss Bagby what
they meant
DO yau know what we have been
giving?" she is allessd to have asked
according 10 Pulling. He replied tnat
he did not.
Patient Died In Hospital.
Well" he said, claiming to quote
the nurse, for heaven sake don't say
anything about it, We have been Civ
ing ink"
He said also that First Assistant
Shook told them not to say anything
more about ink. Then he said he took
a bottle of adrenalin. which was not
discolored from his own medicine
chest and administered 1t to the pa
tient, who died the next day
u do not mean to say" said Pull
ing in concluding his evidence, that
there was any criminal intent. hut it
was grave error
Asked why he did not make a re.
port of it, he said that Shook knew it
Superintendent Cabell then told Of
Pulllng's employment. and said tina,
at first he had discharged his duties
we'll Chairman Hobson called his at
tention to the fact that there had been
some criticism as to the employment
Of inmates 1T was the best he could
do, he said. He had heard nothing Of
the ink charge until after 1t was print
ed in the papers. So far as he knew
the solution had been administered iun-
der the directions of the attending
physician
On Miss Venable's Advice...,;-,
Councilman Hirschberg read from |
the label of the bottle presented fol |
the committees inspections, that the
solution changed from water color to-