Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-13


has DR.. Griffin? A. Yes, ma'am.
@. Didn't you make a statement tina
invaded DR.. Griffin's ward? A. DR.
Griffin said so.
Mr.. Mauldin: Kindly confine youl
examination to questions.
DR.. Carothers: only have what DR.
Griffin said on his examination.
DR.. Saunders: Have you ever no.
ticed anything you could call disloyal-
ty on my part? A. have not.
@. Do you know I have been dis
loyal to DIR. Babcock? A. No.
@. To DR.. Thompson? A. know
nothing at all about that.
@. Can you tell where there was
want Of harmony here? A. 1t was be-
tween the staff.
@. Where was that want Of har-
mony? A. That want Of harmony was
in the staff. You seem to have the idea
that there was want Of harmony be-
tween the board of regents and some
body. Where the board Of regents is
concerned there has been no want of
harmony
@. You told the gentlemen a while
ago, on the 18th of December-thosc
people you invited to the meeting
you were there? A. Yes. ma'am.
@. Invited by whom? A. The board
Of regents.
@. Did you ask my father to leave?
A. I did not.
Q. Who did? A. don't know
@. Do you think It hardly possible
he would have left his business to
come here and desert me at the most
critical moment? A. I don't know.
Q. Have you ever doubted my We
racity? A. Never.
@. Not even on the 18th Of Decem-
ber? A Never did.
Q. Do you know the evidence brought
against me that day was true? A. ]
only know what was stated by others,
not by personal knowledge.
@. Will you tell how prevented DR..
Blackburn from doing his work? A.
only know what DR.. Blackburn said.
@. What is the extent Of work J
have done in the hospital? A. The
only thing 1 know in connection with
the whole affair as far as that part
goes is from the physicians them
selves.
Allotment of Work.
Q. Don't you think as chairman Of
the board Of regents you should make
yourself acquainted with everything?
A. I have tried.
@. Do you believe you could sue
cessfully accomplish work unless you
had the hearty cooperation of every
body concerned? A. No.
Q. Don't you feel when you tell DR..
Babcock about improvements that it
should be done? A. / do.
Q. You feel he Is your superior Of
ficer? A. I do not. We are on equal
footing.
@. Do you know I have refused to
do any work DR.. Babcock has asked Of
me? A. No. do not.
Q. Have you ever let out the work
for the different departments? Have
you ever defined the work for the white
female department? A. No.
@. Do you know whether 1t Is GUS
tomary in hospitals to let out this
work? A. l don't know 1t is.
@. When you said in your resolution
there that you thought it was for my
best interest to dismiss the whole mat
ter-you said that? A. Yes.
Moral Character First.
Q. Do you think professional code
or a woman's moral character should
mean more to her? A. I would an
swer the question by saying the moral
character.
@. Do you think and still say that
there has never been any reflection on
my moral character through the re-
gents or by the regents? A. say that,
yes.
Q. Have you heard letters by Gov.
Blease read, two letters on the 18th Of
December? Will you gentlemen let me
make a statement?
Mr.. Mauldin: You examine him and
make your statement while on the
stand.
DR.. Saunders: @. Do you think you
gave my father a fair hearing on the
18th Of January? A. That was one
meeting was not there. When l was
there did.
@. At the meeting on the 18th Of De-
cember, at which I was taken into a
kind of courtmartial or trial, or what
ever you call It, didn't my father ask
for a re-opening? Was it agreed to?
A. I think the board did.
Q. Do you know whether my father
was permitted. A. That resolution
deprives him.
Best to Drop Matter.
Q. Was it quite fair to do that? A.
l thought the matter, so far as I was
concerned and everybody connected
with it concerned, 1t was better to have
it closed.
Q. II it had been your daughter.
would you have had 1t closed? A. Yes,
ma a'am.
Q. Don't you think it is better for
any rumor of that kind to be opened
and investigated? A. I never heard
Of any rumors.
Q. Didn't Gov Blease's letters indi-
cate it? A. did not think so.
Q. You still say there was nothing
done by or through the regents? A.
So far as l know do.
@. How did you consider Dr. Grif-
fms remarks? A. No meaning at all
it was a slip pure and simple. 1t was
most unfortunate.
Q. You know what he said? A. Just
the words don't remember.
Dr.. Griffin's Remark.
@. What was the bearing Of his
words? A. The question was put to
him by Gov. Blease as to whether DR..
Saunders was a married or single wo-
man.
Q. What did he say? A. DR.. Griffin
said, mo, suppose not"
Q. Was that his wording-was that
his manner? A. So far as his manner
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