The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-12-03
POLICE BOARD TO HEAR
3CHARGE MADE AGAINST
OFFICER AIDING QUACKS


man, who is in business in San Fran
cisco at the present time.
Flick's statement. in part. follows:
while living in Chicago / was en-
gagged by a man named Giles. who
said he was connected with the Cook
Medical company in this city. to come
zxest to manage ethe museum main
tanned by the company at IS Third
street.
1.-The understanding had with Giles
was that I was simply to take care
of the lower floor. where the wax
figures are kept. On arriving here 1
found the Cook Medical company was
owned by Giles, G. K Holsman and
DIR. Ottos Josleh.s When l presented
MYSELF for. duty they told me that in
addition to the work of caring for the
wax figures I would be expected to
interest patients and get them to go
I'D Tor the offices of the doctors on
the floor above the museum. In other
words. they expected me to be what
learned later is called a 'f1oorman.
PICKS OFT VICTIMS
It was to pick out victims and put
q scare 1Nlq LHE1IlS anu GALS1a IH0A1AS
out how much.s money they had. send
them upstairs, where casetaker
would take, them in hand and. with
the assistance OF. others in the COM
pany, fleece the victim.
Before eproce eding with this narra-
tive I will say, that many times when
a shoorman can. not get from the. in
tended victim his financial standing
that the company has other means Of
aseertainiflg his rating.
For instances A victim goes up
stairs. He is told. TO disrobe in one
room The case taker. takes him into
another rooms. presumably the opera
ting room. Whiles. he is in there an
other employee goes through the CLOTH
ling of the victim. By .this way he
finds out how much ready money he
has with him, and If he has bank
book kow. much be has in the bank.
g This. in the language of the bust
ness, is H-raying. a sucker Many
stimes the spare change OF the victim
is boldly taken from his clothes.
the Cook Medical. company's office at
So THIRD street
DIsGUsTED WITH: METHODS .
After about.-:1o,. months with the
Cook COMPANY. \ became Disguised
felt SORRY for the. men who came there
and had :stheir money practically
stolen from thein.= Instead Of work
Ing for the firm, began to. tip off to
patierts who: made frequent visits
that they were being. Skinned
s The break: came one day when. I
wised up "a patient. and saved him
$500 after &e.had told me he had spent
$500 with. r. H. Brown at that: time
manager Of. the Third street office,
bat now with one Of Holsman's offices
in LosoAngeless
This Fellow whose name was John.
jones': came TO. San Francisco from
China Brown gave him an exanaina-
ton and told him he was in bad
shapea and. could not think of being
married unless. he took some. of the
treatments offered by the Cook Med.
cal company. =:
Zones was thoroughly scared. He
pecame a patient. One day while on
his way for. $500, which Brown de-
nlanded FOR further treatment, he to Id
me he had already spent $500 fnti=.
mated to. him that if spent that
much money. L would want :: to see
some results sHe got wise and went
back and. refused. to pay more. Brown
suspected me, and from. that time on
till quit. a; few. days later they made
life miserable for me. =:
My quitting. the company did not
end my troubles. either. They found
fh4f1 had collected evidence against
Gfies. who pretended to be a regis
feled doctor and performed opera
tens. They deemed me. "a dangerous
man and began plans TO get. me out
ofsthe country. One day L was called
Z to the Market street Office of the COM
pany. at No. 721, owned and controlled
by Holsman and Otto Jos1en. -
Here. with the latter. Joseph Bless
ser, manager Of this .offices and an at
torney named Massey. and a. city de-
teetive. I was told to- get out .of town.
The detective did most of the talk
ing. He tried TO scare. me and told
me thar he had the goods on ME and
l had better depart.o he would take
me to headquarters. He was some
what taken aback when + arose from
my chair and said: All right, come on,
l am ready to go''to headquarters
He saida I have no warrant out
for you, but we are! Investigating and
you had better call at headquarters
and see me once In awhile. 80
Il did go and seq him and. he. tried
to smooth things er, saying that I
need not BE afraid
Il was further harrassed by the
Cook Medical company owners. who
hired an attorney and tried to fix up
some kind of a charge against me.
They intimated they would have me
arrested for practicing medicine In
their Third street office. But as I
did not show any fear OF any such
procedure they finally dropped their
efforts and attempted to buy me off to
keep quiet
AwAKENs DESIRE FOR. JUSTICE
Il took the evidence I had gathered
regarding Giles and other cases dur
ing my last few days with the Cook
Medical company to the police, to the
former state board OF medical exam
liners and their attorneys. but on.
every hand at that timesI was dis
couraged and told had TO case I
felt satisfied that the squack stood in
with the proper authorities and finally
lost all interest until saw that The
Call was in a. campaign against them
to the end.
ct have as evidence in my possess
sion now, and which can be produced
at any time, several case cards with
names, the treatment they received.
the ailments they were told they were
suffering from and how much money
they were fleeced out Of
1T has BEEN months since I worked
with the Cook company, and the things
] saw there makes my blood boil,
and If there is anything I can do to
assist the medical board and The Call
in driving out OF existence these
charlatans ! stand ready to do 80. I
am not moved by a desire for revenge,
but with C genuine hope of saving
some unfortunate his money by expos
ing the methods Of these quacks who
prey upon the ignorant.
I could recite many cases where
men were robbed. 1t was a common
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