Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-03
CANNOT GUST DR..
DILL UNLESS HE'S
GUILTY OF CRIME
Indictment and Conviction Is
Only Course, Says Counsel
for Physician.
FREEHOLDERS VOTE
TO REMOVE OFFICIAL
Only One Member of Committee
Observation-Disclosures Fight
Over Action.

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tendent of the Essex County Asylum
for the Insane at Overlook, cannot ne
removed from his office prior to the
expiration of his term of office on Feb
ruary %, 1918. except after convic-
ment by the grand jury and convic-
tion in court. was the statement made
today by Chandler w. Riker, counsel
for DR.. Dill, in regard to the charges
made against him at the February
meeting Of the Board of Freeholders.
This statement followed the action
taken by the hospital committee OF the
Board of Freeholders last night, when'
with only the vote of Benjamin Has
lell. chairman of the committee, dis
senting, the members voted to recon-
mend the discharge Of the medical
superintendent from his position.
incidentally, 1t was learned several
members of the hospital committee of
4he Board of Freeholders that DR.. DilPs
term Of Office does not expire until one
year later than they had figured. The
general impression In the committee
and among the freeholders has been
that Dr. Dilrs term would expire on
February 2S, 1912. AS a matter of fact,
1T will be just one year later when 1t
does expire.
Appointed in 1908.
At a meeting of the Board Of Free
holders held January 9. 1908. the follow
ing resolution, proposed by John Scan
Ian. of the Seventh ward. then chair
man Of the hospital committee, was
adopted without dissenting vote:
sThat DR.. Daniel M. Dill be reappointed
superintendent OF the County Hospitals
for the Insane for a term of five years.
from March /, 1903, at an annual salary
of s4.5oo"
At the meeting of February This reso-
luton was returned to the board, ap-
proved by County Supervisor John F.
Otterbein, making the appointment
binding.
TITS news to me- said Theodore d.
Gottleib, secretary of the hospital COM
mittee, today when told that DR.. Dilrs
term would not expire until March.
1918. "I understood 1t expired in 1912.
and / know several other members OF
the committee thought the same way.
Well it makes all the more reason why
we should get rid of him at once"
Told that DIR. Dills attorney had
stated that the only way in which DR..
Dill could be removed was by charges
, after an indictment and conviction,
Mr. Gottlieb remarked: THE commit
tee can suspend him and refuse to pay
him his salary If they consider him in
competent"
The charges made against DIR. Dill
last February were drawn up by Coun-
ty Counsel Joseph L. Mum and pre-
sented to the freeholders by the hos
pital committee. Almost as soon as
the charges had been presented to the
board, DIR. Dill. through Mr.. Riker,
took the matter into court and obtained
a writ of certiorari to enable him to
make proper answer to the charges.
Delay Is Rumored.
This tied the matter up and it will
of the Supreme Court, IL then. Court
House gossip has 1t that different legal
moves will be made that will tie up
the final decision on the charges until
the February, 1912. term of the Supreme
Court.
County Counsel Mum. who was asked
by reporter for the EVENING STAR
today what the present status Of the
charges against DR.. Dill is, said:
.I don't want to give you a short
answer, but I do not intend to discuss
overlook affairs at this time"
Where can / get copy of the
charges?'' was the next question fired
at Mr. Mum by the reporter
II don't know. wish I knew where
I could get copy of them myself"
was the reply.
The reporter then got busy and
helped Mr. Mum out by finding a copy
ff the charges in the county counsers
office at the Court House, where they
are on record as part of the minutes
of the hospital committee of the Board
of Freeholders.
The charges made last February and
which are still in allegiance are as fol-
lows:
Charges Against Doctor.
1. Failure to perform the duties
snecified in the rules of the Board Of
Chosen Freeholders relating to the
government of the County Hospital for
the Insane and especially to the duties
TO be performed by the superintendent
of such hospital.
Q. Failure to report fires that have
occurred in the institution to the COM
mittee. with the causes of such fires
SO far as ascertained or capable of be-
ing ascertained on proper investi-
cation.
q Failure to make proper investiga-
tion as to the causes of fires, notably
one at South Orange avenue in June
last and one which occurred at Over
brook since that time. and report the
same to the committee on county hos
pitfalls.
4. Failure 10 make investigation of
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