The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-29
CHARITIES BOARD
 TO- INVESTIGATE. NEGLECT CHARGE
Commissioner F.W. Behrens Promises Probe of Elmer gency Hospital, Laxity.
DISCOVER ANOTHER
 AND SIMILAR CASE Head Split Open, Unfortu- nate Was Refused Ambu- lance and Treatment.

A sweeping investigation of charges that persons stricken ill have been re- fused treatment by attaches of the emergency hospital and that surgeons have refused to snswer calls ssr an ambulance to remove injured citizens to the hospital and administer treat ment, will be made by the commits sioners of the board of charities.
 This fact was admitted by F. W. Behrens, president of the board of charities, today and3 he stated that responsibility. for negligence will be placed where it belongs and steps taken-to to prevent a recurrence of like incidents, if possible
 W hy John Y oungs, who is said to be a, Spanish war veteran, was for 14 hours forced to lay on a 15 cent cot, in a Water street lodging house after repeated csft- for aid had been made by policemen upon the emergency hospital, with the result that he died without receiving attention, Is one of the questions that members of the. board will demand befexplained.
 They will also attempt to find out who was responsible for the arrest on charges of drunkenness of Mrs. John J. Dewitt. of 5 Myrtle court, who is now dying in the Galen hospital, from a fracture ~of the skull and left hip. The woman was taken to police head quarters unable to walk.
 Tn keeping with one of strictest rules of the police department. gov erning cases of the kind, physician was called from the emergency hos pital to ascertain if the woman was i'll or injured.
 The physician stated that Mrs. Dewitt was merely drunk. She, was suffering from fracture of the hip and skull, but the police acting upon. the finding ,of the physician, arrested her. Eight hours later she was re- leased in bonds. taken away in a cab by relatives to the Galen hos pital, where she is now dying.
 Another charge of neglect which will occupy the attention of the com missi0ners, is made by o. M. Wood ward. of ,. .1z5 Albany avenue. Hart, ford. A policeman, believed to be w. H. Halpin, on the night of Nov. 1. at 11:30 o'clock, discovered Tony Marnoski lying in a pool of blood in the doorway at 84 State street. : Examination disclosed the fact that lis head was split across the top,S distance of abNut six inches. He was unconscious The patrolman called police headquarters. related the circumstances to the superior of hcer in charge, understood to be Sergt. James J. O'NeiI and the latter connected Halpin with the emer- gency hospital.
 Request was made for the ambu- lance and the patrolman returnsd to the injured man to await it's arrival A half hour elapsed and the ambu- lance did not arrive. Meanwhile Woodward, who was passing. in ah automobile, was attracted to the scene.
 Y The patro1man tired of waiting, again got the emergency hospital on the phone. He was asked by the physician if Marnoski was drunk. The patrolman, it is reported, stated that he did not know. One thing was certain-the man was severely injur- ed, his head was split and he was bleeding greatly.
 Well, we wont send the ambu- lance" the doctor is alleged to have replied. That is all there is te4> it. If you want to bring him up here in the police patrol, all right
 The policeman was about to send in a hurry call for the patrol, when the witness. Woodward, volunteered to take Mhrnoski to police headquar- ters. On his arrival at the station it is understood, a verbal argument enshed between the officer and a phy- sician in the emergency 4 hospital, which is just across the hall in the same building, before the wound in the injured mans head was sewed up.
 Absolute proof of the refusal of the emergency hospital to act in this case is recorded on the books at police headquarters. Supt Redgate today refused to talk about the case. He stated he has no desire to engage in any controversy. O'Neil, in keeping with a regulation of the department which prohibits members of the force from talking for publication, would not discuss the matter. Police de- partment members will have nothing to say one way or the other
 A Farmer representative learned today from a. prominent city official in no way connected with the police department, and to whom Woodward wrote a letter protesting against such gross neglect of an injured man, that a record of the facts is in black and white on the police blotter if the members of the charities board desire to look at them.
 Christmas night the Dewitt woman, who had slipped and fallen, suffering a fracture of her skull and hip, was found lying unconscious on the side walk at Park avenue and State street.