The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-30
Charities Board Emergency Hospital Committee Be- gins Investigation of Neg lect Alleged by Witnesses in Several Gross Cases
Gordon Gives Out Statement But Sidesteps Telling Why Ambulance Wasn't Sent to Dying Unfortu- nate and Injured Pedes- trian. 4

The charities department today sent investigators to find Tony MaInoskl, who lay in doorway at S4 State street with a split head for more than 30 minutes, because the attaches of the emergency. hospital refused to send any ambulance to the scene. He was finally taken to the emergency hos pital in a passing automobile and diff iculty was then had to obtain treat ment for him.
 This action was taken as result Fof statement made that the emer- gency hospital has refused to send the ambulance to the scene where persons have been injured and the charge that for IA hours John Youngs for whom the police six times asked that aid be given, was neglected, with the result that he died in a Water street lodging house.:
 Supt Spencer R. Gordon has emerg- ed from his state of reticence long enough to state that woman, Mrs. Mary Moroto, who died after her re- nlova1 with her husband and baby to the hospital from the basement of a house in North Washington avenue, came to her end as a result o1 gas poisoning and not neglect or malnu- triton from which her 5aby and hus- band were found to be suffering. The medical examiners report states the mother died as result of two pois- ons--gas and foul food.
 He had no comment to make on the case of Mrs. Kate Dewitt, who was arrested on charges of drunken ness, on the finding of doctor whom the police called into examine the woman. It was found that her con dition was due to a fracture of the skull and hip and she is now dying at the Ga1en hospital.
 No denial was forthcoming on the neglect which resulted in the death of John Youngs. Gordon would not deny that policemen had for i hours tried in vain to get aid for the dying man, who was suffering from pneu- monia; that the Emergency fatly re- fused to send an ambulance to take him to the hospital, or a doctor to give treatment which might have saved his life.
 The only case upon which he has commented is that of the Moroto wom>n, whose death is now alleged by prominent citizens as solely due to poverty.
 Whether or not the commissioners of the Board. of Chsrities will send to Hartford and ask c. N. Woodward of that city, who protested indig- nantly against the refusal of the <o Mor noski from the scene to testify at a hearing Marnoski, some of the charities employees now say, "suf- fered only a three-inch cut" in the head and was mot seriously injured. B An official today stated that did not change the status of the neglect charge. The policeman who found the man unconscious thought his skull might have been fractured. He was lying in a pool of blood. He told this to the emergency hospital over the telephone, and stated he believed the mans condition serious. Had Mar noski been seriously hurt this official points out he could have died for all tale attention he could get from the emergency hospital.
 The policemen after waiting for the ambulance following the first call, a half hour later, and finding when he called second time that they would not send the ambulance was about to ask for the patrol when Woodward volunteered to take Marnoski to the hospital, and his offer was accepted. The investigation of these cases will be made by committee of two mem bers of the board and their finding reported to the president of the board F. w. Behrens.