The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-07-29
M'|NTOSH DENIES
SIGNING CERTIFICATE
Says Signature to Medical!
Certificate Not Genuine
COLUMBIA PHYSICIAN
SHOT DURING NIGHT

ST1Ol DOKllNU MUTT
Pardon Of II. A. Richcy OF Abbevfile
Center Around which Storm has
Waged during Past Week. Mr..
Richey Says Certificate WAS handed
Him by DR.. Mcintosh
Mr.. w. II. Richey, the attorney in
terested in the r. A. Richcy case,
went to Columbia Monday morning
and there gave out an interview in the
shape Of an affidavit in which he de-
clares that the medical certificate,
around which interest in the case cen
tcrS, was handed him by DR.. A. b.
Knowlton with the signatures already
attached.
Columbia, July 23.-"We would re-
port that we find Mr.. Richcy suffering
from marked neurosis, that the
same closely Stimulates a true paraly-
sis" is what Governor Cole l.. Blease
today read from what he said was the
original certificate handed him by Mr..
Richey signed by Drs. James II. Nc
dntosh and a. B. knowlton on their
examination Of r. a. Richey, the Alb
beville man, while he was in the pen
itentiary and prior to his being
paroled. The governor read the
whole certificate while the 1900 peo-
pie who packed and jammed the Co
lumbia Theatre listened closely dur
ing the tense moment This was in
answer to the published statement
from DR.. McIntich that he and Dr.
Knowlton had agreed that Richeys
paralysis was fctgncd.
DR.. Mcintosh was not on the stage,
airy, where he was taken for treatment
early this morning after having been
shot by man who held him up on
Marion street and who fled over the
Presbyterian churchyard wall after he
had aSsailcd him. The governor Said
he was sorry that DR. Mcintosh was
not on the stand and went on to say
that mo Bleasc man did the deed
Referring to. the shooting, please
has got no friends who hold men up"
he stated.
Reading from typewriter copy
of his speech at Abbcvillc, Governor
Bleasc said:
81 will now read you certificate.
One Of the gentlemen who signed 1t
has Just passed to the great beyond. a
man who has. done more perhaps for
the alleviation Of human suffering than
anyeman Of his age that has ever lived
in South Carolina; man who stood,
as surgeon and physician, the equal
Of any. and a man Of the highest
moral character. He is dead and can
not speak for himself but here is what
be said:
"rhe other signer, DR.. James III. Nc
Intosh. may not he known to you. but
he is known to your physicians: ask
them who llc is. AS a physician and
as a'maRinc stands high in his state,
and no man would say that Dr.. Nc
Intosh would lie.
Now if mon of the character Of
these who signed these various ccrti-
fcates in their professional life can
be bought to sign false statements,
God save their profession in our
state. do not believe it and no man
M - ,,,5,o mo A.I;oun
He then read the following state
ment:
The KnowltOn Hospital,
"No. 1915 Marion Street,
Columbia, January 19, 1912.
ellis Exccllcncy, Governor Cole j..
Bleasc, Columbia, S. C.Sir: At the
request OF Mr.. w. r. Eichcy, Of lau-
rens, s. c., and with the permission
OF Capt. d. J. Griffith, superintendent
of the state penitentiary, and OF Or.
II. r. Jennings, surgeon OF the same,
we have this day visited and examined
MIR. n. A. Richey, now confined in the
hospital Of the pententiary. We
would report that we find Mr.. Rich
ey suffering from marked neurOsis,
that the same closely Stimulates a
true paralysis. We are informed that
Mr.. Richey has had some such trouble
for the past ten years or more, and
close confinement Is rendering 1t
more marked. We do not believe his