Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-24
.A NEW SHAKE-UP
IS THREATENING
SOHO HOSPITAL
Discharged Cook Says
She Will Make
Disclosures.
WIDOW SEAMSTRESS
SLATED TO BE DROPPED
Hospital Superintendent Ad-
mits Something Drastic Is
About to Happen.

Although DR.. j.. K. Adams, chair
man of the board of managers of the
Essex County Isolation Hospital,
at Soho, professed ignorance at con-
templated changes in the house staff
at the institution, DR.. Henry Rick
etts, the superintendent of h hos
pital, admitted today that anotner
shake-up is about to take place.
Mrs. Lille Nugent, a widow VINO
has been a seamstress at the hospi-
tai, has been requested to leave on
September l. X
When asked why Mr% Nugent was
going to be dropped DR.. Ricketts,
said: There is not enough work for
her here"
The seamstress is said to have done
sewing for the officials higher p
without extra compensation.
When asked what provisions would
be made for the future, DIR. Ricketts,
said that the other seamstress in
the contagious division would be
called on to sew for the tuberculosis
cottages.
Cook Threatens Expose.
Startling discl ,sures are promised by
Mrs. Minnie Mcclure. the dismissed
cook of the hospital, when the board
of managers meets on September o.
That she intends to fight the action
of the managers is evident by her
statement today.
IT will spend every penny l ever
saved, and SO will my daughter, who
is a trained nurse under the United
States government. 10 prove that the
charges which were made against me
were false said Mrs. McGuire today.
81 never took single thing out OF
the hospital. Whatsmore. my sister
in-law, with whom / live. WOULD not
want me to bring meat or anything
from an institution where contagious
diseases were being treated
II worked at the hospital for two
years, and did not work there for
nothing, for what I saw and heard
fill a book. l wanted to leave
a year ago and they would not al
low me.
"OnceI bought some eggs and other
material excepting flour to bake a
cake for my daughters birthday. and
Miss Mary T. McCue, the matron,
allowed me the little -four when |
asked her. l never took a pins point
from the place.
II will engage one of the leading
lawyers in the city to fight my case.
/ can see through it all, and 1t was a
conspiracy by a few. When l LETT
Mrs. McCue kissed me good-by n
told me she knew l was innocent. 1
have been a widow for sixteen years
and 1 have -four children. | was only
too glad to leave when my days work
va done.
Orders sIeuth Out of Kitchen.
when the would-be detective they
had about the place came into the
kitchen and used vulgar language In
the presence OF several women and
offered us a drink of whiskey | or
dered him but.
THE discharge of Patsy the or
phan boy, is an outrage. Miss Nc
Cue has the greatest confidence IN
him. He was assistant in h phar-
macy and l know he never did any
thing wrong. I gave him sandwiches
and side dishes between meals. n
IL | asked him for a headache pow
der or plaster, or any small thing
he would tell me to get an order for
it from DR.. Ricketts, or Miss MeCue
That shows his honesty.
Il admit | carried a suit case n
bundles, but they all know l did hand
painting on sofa cushions and that Is
what / would be carrying. IL the
detective really suspected l had
beef in it why didn't he lake the
bundle from me and get me with the
evidence. He knew very well he
would get left.
II spent my vacation at Midland
Beach and the mar who carried my
suit case is an employee of the coun-
ty and the detective knew 1t, but
he made it "a strange man In his
report"
Mrs. Mcguire formerly was cook at
the nurses home at the City Hos
pital and for several prominent fam
lilies in this city.