New-York tribune., 1912-01-13
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SCALD|NC PARALYT|C
One of Two Attendants Sought
for City Farm Death Faces
ManSIaughter Charge.
HUNTING OTHER ORDERLY
Absent While Victim Was in Tub,
Prisoner Says-Commissioner
Drummond Decides It
Was Unavoidable.

Charged with manslaughter in the first
Gogree because Of The death Of Harry
Williams. an aged p&ralytic, an inmate
OF the New YORK City Farm Colony. at
Castleton Corners. staten Island. who
was scaldcd 10 death in a hathtub Tues
day. as told In yesterdays Tribune,
Harry r. Carlton. one Of the men who
attended him, was arrested yesterday
and committed to the Richmond County
jail without bail
Carlton made a statement 70 Albert &.
Each. District Attorney OF Richmond
County, in which he said that he and
Harry St. Clair, another attendant. who
had assisted IN giving the old man his
bath. fled from the institution in a state
Of panic when they saw Williams was
diving. Carlton was arrested by Detec-
tive George H. Meyers, attached to the
District Attorneys office, after the for
mcr had returned TO the farm. 4 war
rant was issued for ST Clair's arrest
District Attorney Each said yesterday
that he had not been informed of Will
ams's death under suspicious circum-
stances until Thursday night Then the
Superintendent Of the colony, Joseph ID.
Flick. called him up on the telephone at
10 y. m. told him there had been a sus-
picious death at the institution and asked
him to investigate it. This was after
Tribune reporter had laid bare the cir
cumstanCcs of the brutal end or the
aged man. as related by an inmate. The
old man had been buried in the Potter's
Field on that day.
II Immediately began an investigation
Of the case said District Attorney
Each Yesterday Detective Meyers
found Carlton, or Waters, as he is other
wise known. at the colony, and his state
,nent, together with other evidence we
gathered. which points strongly to the
commission OF IL horrible crime, war
ranted Cartons arrest on a charge OF
manslaughter He will be rearraigncd
Tomorrow. when the complaint will be
s,pplemented with the afiidavits Of sew
eIal witnesses"
The prisoner was arraigned before
Magistrate Marsh at Stapleton on COM
plaint OF Detective Meyers, charging
that Carlton deliberately and feloniously |
placed Williams In n tub of scalding
water at a temperature of 125 degrees,
and that the latter died a few hours
later as a result.
Saws He Has Eyewitnesses.
District Attorney Each said in court |
that he would produce to-day witness |
who overheard Carlton and st. Clair gay |
In the bathroom that they intended to
mako away with the old man. He also |
ooid he had an eyewitness to the "hole !
affair. williams was a paralytic and /
practically helpless, and Carlton and st. |
clair were said to have grudge against |
him because they were compelled TO give |
him a daily bath. as DR.. A. +. Esguerra, |
the resident physician, had prescribed.
Cartons statement as it was taken In
rho District Attorneys office at Borough |
Hall ST. George, yesterday, follows:
Ior, an inmate OF the City Farm Colony. |
ON Tuesday. the 9th inst, | took Harry |
Williams, an inmate of the institution anu ,
oh"mt tie age of fifty-eight years, TO the |
o. tLroon 10 give him a bath This order |
wns given by DR. Esquerra. This Is gen !
,raI order. applicable TO all inmates lie
was removed to the bathroom, undresseu |
and mt in the bathtub. l took the tenn
nerature of the water Qt was 65 degreesl
and then left. but put him In the care OF
&C Harry St Clair and one William Kelly, |
aiso both inmates OF the same institution. |
When | returned took the temperature
again. II was l20 degrees-it was boillhg' |
Whole Body eistered.
In the mean time before my return TO
III ha atbroom Harry williams had been |
nIsced on his bed. and discovered blis- !
teT on his forehead. When | went to his |
led / noticed that his head was partly cov-
cred / lifted up the bed clothing and dis |
eenyered the aforesaid blister about two
inches in diameter. l further uncovered |
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