The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-18
|bARES HER STORY
IN COURT TODAY
Woman Tells Of Alleged As
sault by DR.. O. o. Moore.
Mrs. Broughton Says Doctor
Cornered Her in His Once.
ION HIS OPERATING TABLE
Struggled Against His At
tempts, She Testified.
Another Woman Brought
Against DR.. Moore by State.
ASKED HER tn TAKE 4 DRINK
Woman Says She Refused
Then Improper Demand.
Did Not Tell Her Husband UM.
til Day After Occurrence.
Struggled Against His At
tempts, She Testified.
Another Woman Brought
Against DR.. Moore by State.
ASKED HER TO TAKE 4 DRINK
Did Not Tell Her Husband Un.
til Day After Occurrence.

DR.. o. o. Moore, pract1c1n8 pnySl~
clan with office at 729 Kansas avenue
in this city. was bound over for trial
on a charge of attempted statutory
assault. after his hearing in the court
of Topeka this morning when the COM
planning witness, Mrs. Mamie a.
Broughton Of 1915 Clay street. appeared
against him. Her husband. employed
in a local engraving plant. was the only
other witness. Mrs. Broughton on the
witness stand related the circumstances
of the alleged attempt against her A.
having taken place in the doctors office
on the afternoon of November q. the
day after last Thanksgiving day.
A crowd Of curious gathered in the
court room to hear the details of the
story which Mrs. Broughton. well
dressed. good looking young woman.
related. She made her statement with
out any emotional display but with
considerable detail as to the struggle
in which she said her assailant's at
tempt was evaded by her.
She stated that she had called by
appointment for a treatment which had
occasioned several previous consuita-
tions. during all of which the physi-
y
this occasion, however, she said the
doctor first invited her to take drink
OF liquor and. when that was refused.
made an improper proposal, which she
also spurned. before he seized her and
threw her upon an operating table.
Did Not Cry Out.
Witness told a fairly clear story of
the struggle which followed. She did
not cry out but was able to fOrcib1y
compel him to abandon his attempt,
after which she made a hurried exit
from the office. She did not. however.
relate the occurrence to her husband
until the following morning. Her only
explanation of this delay. she said, was
fear he might attempt to violently
avenge the injury. No formal complaint
was entered until Tuesday.
The Story.
ssI waited in the ante-room Of DR..
Moore's office a few minutes after
arrived there at about AIS o'clock in
the afternoon" said Mrs. Broughton.
"but was admitted as soon as he had
let out a patient who preceded me.
When / entered the doctors cOnsulta-
ton room laid my hat on his desk
and my coat on a chair preparatory to
the treatment expected to receive.
DIR. Moore got out a bottle Of whteky
and after asking me IL had had
pleasant Thanksgiving day. said he
was having his today.
He said I spent the day with my
folks and didn't have a very good time
SO I'm making up today He asked me
If 1 wouldn't have q high-ball. told
him No. that 1 never drank anythin9
and did not want to then. He put the
liquor away without taking a drink.
Next the doctor made an improper pro-
posal to me. l replied that / had al
ways been faithful to my husband and
expected to continue SO. I refused him.
After that he said something about car.
rying out his purpose anyhow and
threw me onto the operating table
which was extended flat"
Mrs. Broughton told with much cir
cumstantiality how the doctor held hGf
upon the table by passing an arm un-
der her back and grasping her own arm
while he pinfoned her with his sh0ul-
der. She described how she seised
finally abandoned his intention and a1-
lowed her to get up and get her coat
and hat"
Two people were in the waiting room
when she left after having been in the
consultation room twenty-five or thirty
minutes.
The Other Woman.
DR.. Moore. who did not testify. is un-
der 81, 900 bond.
At the hearing today County Attor-
ney w. E. AtchisOn- made an attempt
to introduce a statement by Mrs. Bessie
Kettering Of 1907 East Eighth ave-
nue.. The witness got SO far a. to
state that DIR. Moore had formerly
been her family physician and that he
called at her house on q certain morn
ing several mohths ago without hav-
ing been summoned.
At this juncture Otis Hung4te, at
torney for defence, objected to the
testimony and Mrs. Kettering was di-
rected to leave the stand without tell
ing any more Of her story.