The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29
DOCTOR HELD AF TER
MAN DIES IN JAIL
Patient at Dee Hospital Sent
From Sick Bed 10
Padded Cell.
INTERNE is ACCUSED
County Physician Asks for
Complaint and Full lnvesti-
cation Will Be Made.
INTERNE is ACCUSED

Special 10 The Tribune.
OGDEN. oct 2S.-lI. Boyle. whose
name was also given out as PADDY l)a'-
ton. the man who was teben from
train on his Way from Portland 10 Dcn-
yer Friday and was sent TO the De"
hospital lor treatment for The deliriupi
lremens. 6led in the county jail at about
. o'clock this evening. His brother IN
Denver has been notified and the body
Is held pending word from hm.
AS the result OF an investigation made
b. county officials. Or II. c. McCloskcy
= physician a; tho hospital was arrested
and is being detained under Surveillance
OF an officer pending further lnVestsd-
tion into charges against him.
The man was desperately Sick whGu
sent 10 the hospital and after nc had been
KEEP; there until about o'clock TINS az
tern6on. pl. r. c. McCloskey, II is
charged. the inferno at The hospital. n9 VINO
came here recently from the east ordere9
him taken from the hospital and placed
In padded cell in the county jan, 'r,
j. w Pidcock. county phyHlcian' VINO iaS
ginning Of the treatment here, visited
The man i'm the padded cell and found MN
in a serious condition
Says Request Refused.
Dr. pidcock Says that nc then tr!c~
Dhoncd to. Dr. McC!oskcv at lhe hos y,
uItai asking that the man be take n
back there and cared for. iie said ti,"'
pr McCIosllcy answered over the telc-
phone that the man never you'd nc
taken back there while he was tncfe, snn
added that lac would be solely RESPONSE :
bic for his death II lie died. DT. Fid :
cock says he then toIephorcd TO Or \.
=. joyce, one OF the trustees OF the hos
pi;al. telling him OF the mans ccndition.
and the answer that lie received from
the hospital DT. joyce suggested tnaI
the man be sent back 30 the hospital ara
care OF bin When this was suggested 10
jr McCloslScy he is alleged To haNc re-
iteiated his statement barring tho man
From the hospital
and DE-. Pidcock summoned Dr. Waltcl
r. Whalcn. and the two doctors worked
ever tlle patient until he died AT about
. o'clock This evening Dr. Pidcock gays
that he then telephoncd 10 Or, McClos-
key. informing him OF the man death
He saws that pr. NCCloskcy answered
over The telephone as follows; THANK
you: I'm glad he's dead. We can all Gct
q good nights rest.
Asks for Complaint.
that lie applied ror complaint. Count!
ATTORNEY David Jensen and District NJ
| torney l.. T. ilulauiski advised that Dr
McCloskcy be placed under surreillanG'
| conducted As Sheriff r.. T.. Harrison
Was preparing to send a deputy 10 Notct
| tho OFFENDING doctor during the night
| word came from the hospital to the cffcc
| that the doctor had left there.
Deputy sheritfs were ipnmediaicil
| placed at each depot, aud when tht
Twenty street car reached Wash
| ington avenue Deputy Shoriffs Thomas
DeriUe and George Leathsn placed th'
| physician under arrest. lie was taker
| to the shorift' office. where ne savo oU
2 statement to the effect that the man
he'd been very violent and in his raving!
| had injured one of the nurses. and th'
| doctor showed that his own hands Wer'
bruised. He said that many patients
| III critical conditions were disturbed an,
that Il was absolutely necessary To have
| the mau removed. iIo denied that III
| had said that he was glad the man va
dead, hut admitted that he had ssi'
| that they would get nights rest. IL
| also denied that nc had said that la
would he responsible for The mans des Nh
| He was later permitted to go To the hos
| pital 10 spend the night i'll custody o
| DEPUTY Sheriff Frank Ludwig.
| Tho dead man. who had registered a
| the hospital as H. Boyle. Is well 6resse,
and respectable looking. IIe was suffer
| ing from . severe case OF the dclirluu
| tremens when lie was taken from th
| train