Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-22
BILL HAS SECRET
OF MYRTLE REED?
Widower of Novelist Says She
Didn't Need Medical Ser
vices of DR.. Sugg.
CLAIM FOR 1892 HOURS
J. 8. Mccullough Tells of StoI ping
$1,000 Check Wife Left for
Physician.

Chicago. Jan. 22.-New light on the
death Of Myrtle Reed Mccullough, the
novelist. may be shed on Jan. 30 at the
hearing OF the claim OF DIT. Edmund G.
Sugg against her estate.
James S. Mccullough, the widower,
asserts that he will endeavor 10 force
the physician TO tell what his medical
treatment consisted of during the 1882
hours for which he has charged. He
also said DR.. sugg called more as a
friend than a doctor.
The physician in his bill wants S.
for each hour he spent with the nov
elst and an extra thousand for advice
by telephone and telegraph. His &C
qualntance with her did not extend
much over IS months. She met him
in 1909 when he was an inferno at the
North Shore hospital at Winnetka
WHOEVER TO FIGHT CLAIM.
"Dr. Sugg has got all the money
from the Mccullough family that he is
going TO get" said Mr. Mccullough at
his office in the Hartford building.
When he secured his certificate last
year TO practice medicine he didn't
have any money All at once he bios
somed out with a well furnished Office,
an automobile, and bulldog. After
that Il was a string of presents. A
week before my wife died she drew
81 800 from the bank and ! have not
found out what became of it,
Or Sugg put in his bill, perhaps
thinking | would avoid publicity and
not resist It. He picked out the wrong
man. We stopped payment on a check
for $4,000 and savings amount also
for $1,000 which my wife left for him
the day she died DR.. Sugg was at
the bank al 10 o'clock the next morn
ing, but the bank wouldn't give him
the money
SAYS SHE DIDN'T NEED DOCTOR
'Dr. Sugg says the estate owes him
for medical attention TO Mrs. McCul-
Tough. She didn't need a doctor. Like
all writer's, she was nervous She work
ed under high tension. She would
write a book in 80 days. Dr. Sugg
used 10 spend four or five hours in
her company. He will have to prove
he was there because his medical ser
vices we're needed.
He used 10 loaf around the apart
ments. eating. drinking and sleeping.
! didn't know until my wife died tina:
DIR. Sugg spent so much time with her
! objected to his presence last sum
mer but it didn't do any good My
wife sort of turned against me-"
SERVANT TELLS OF VISITS.
Annie Larsen, a servant, told Of the
frequency of Dr. Sugg's visits.
He came every other day, some
times every day, and | have known
him to come twice a day" she said
Il don't know II Mrs. Mccullough tel
ephoned for him. | guess he called
whenever he felt like it, Mrs McCul-
Tough always let him in.
i never saw his medicine case. I
never took any prescriptions to be
hlled. The doctor always said he fill
ed them himself. / didn't like DIR. Sugg
on account Of his actions.
man until February. when Mrs. Nc
Cullough received a letter from a wo-
man who called herself the doctors
wife II said she was a nurse in a
hospital in New York and had been
deserted three weeks after marriage -
DR.. Sugg denied that the novelist
furnished his Office at 1912 Wilson
avenue. He also said he had not been
married Admitting that Mrs. McCul.
Tough had given him few inexpensive
pieces of jewelry. he asserted that he
had not travelled extensively at her
expense
CALLS HIM DEAR TEDDY
Just before her death Mrs. McCuL
Tough received the first copies of the
Weaver of Dreams" One OF these
she sent to DR.. Sugg with the following
inscription on the fly leaf:
TO Ny Dear Teddy: The dearest
doctor that ever was. through whose
wise counsel and skillful guidance
wrote this book without WEAKNESS and
with much Joy in my work. With af.
fecuonate appreciation from
MYRTLE REED MCCULLOUGH
(The original grateful patiently
This sounds atfectionate. but it was
her way of addressing her friends. -
said the doctor. She used to write
1000 words day on a typewriter. II
was great strain. and had TO watch
her closely. Sometimes / helped her
lay out the book At times she wen,
TO Detroit or Milwaukee TO work ana
would consult me daily by telephone
or telegraph"
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