Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-22
inquest into
NURSE'SDEATH
GOES over WEEK
Medical Testimony Conflicts
as to Whether Miss Berg
Could Have Performed the
Operation


July 81 at the Beretania sanitariu
following a criminal operation. wi
be carried on by the police this wee
prior to the second meeting of II
coroner's jury. which is set for No
day afternoon
In the first hearing OF the inque.
at the police station yesterday III
following salient points were brougl
out In the testimony given by the phi,
sicians called as witnesses:
The girls life could probably
have been saved had she con-
sented to go TO a hospital as soon
as her condition was aSCertaiDed.
The girls death was caused by
an infection which set in follow
ing the operation, but which she
might have withstood had she not
lost so much blood.
The operation probably was
not self-performed.
Capt. John Ludy knew C the
reason for the girls Discharge
from the Queens hospital; that
she had been discharged because
she was in delicate condition.
DR.. A. F. Jackson had expressed
suspicious concerning Capt. Lu-
dy's responsibility in the case.
Capt. Ludy did all he possibly
could to aid the girl, even offer
ing to marry her If it would save
her honor.
A man by the name of Flavin,
former local postoffice inspector
who left here several months ago,
and Werner Roehl, superintendent
of the Queens hospital, were men.
toned in connection with the
case.
C. B. Cooper testified that he be
lieved the girls life could have beer
saved had she gone to the hospita
On the Wednesday before the day OF
which she died.
He expressed the opinion that the
operation could not possibly have beer
self-performed.
DR.. Richard G. Aver, police surgeon
who directed the postmortem exam
nation, gave the results Of this ex
animation, stating that the death was
caused by septicemia (blood poison
Ing), but that had a hemorrhage, re.
sulting in the loss Of a great deal OF
blood, not taken place. the girl prob
ably would have lived.
DR.. A. K. Hanchett, who was also
in the postmortem examtna.
ion, practically reiterated what DR..
Aver had said
j DR.. L. L. Patterson, board. of health
stated that in his aequain-
;ance with Miss Berg he had heard
Nothing that would cast any refec.
ions upon her moral character.
DR.. r. w. Benz, the first physician
o be called to the +Woman's bedside,
ave very much the same story as Dr.
cooper, being associated with the case
n about the same manner.
DR.. A. F. Jackson, a friend of Capt.
Judy and the attending physician dur
ng the last hours Of the girls death,
old Of his relation with the case.
Miss Berg, said the doctor, stated
hat she would not go to the hospital
n July % until she had seen a lieu
nant, who was judged by DR.. Aver
, be Capt. Ludy. DR.. Jackson there
IRE called Capt. Ludy, who stated
the time that whatever DR.. Jack.
IN had heard concerning the respon-
bility for her trouble was untrue.
When the two doctors met later
r. Jackson stated that Capt. Ludy |
pressed his willingness to marry |
ISIS Berg to save the girls honor,
though he said another man had |
ZEN responsible for the child.
Upon hearing that. the girl needed
stitutional care, Capt. Ludy offered
pay all her expenses. He con
nted to go to see her when he heard
at she called for him, but he de.
ared he would not go alone.
With Capt. Ludy's entrance upon
e scene of the girls last struggle,
e saddest details of the tragedy
IRE enacted. Miss Berg was pale
d semi-delirious, DR.. Jackson testi.
ID, and her condition such that she
uld say sensible things, but not fol-
v a line of thought.
She would not go to the Queens
spital, but finally consented to go
the Beretania sanitarium after
pit. Ludy had pleaded with her to
to a hospital, ito get we'll and start
eW.'
Dr.. Jackson stated that he believed
would have been possible for the 1
man to have performed the opera.
n herself because she had been in
, operating room of the Queens
spital for at least 500 operations and
S we'll acquainted with the meth.
; employed.
)r. Jackson, when asked if he had
er suspected DR.. Ludy for respon-
ility for the child, stated that he
probably given expression to
h a thought. He Indignantly ad-
that under the conditions he
ught that such was but a natural
ling in spite Of his position. He is I
Y Of the belief that Capt. Ludy
S in no way responsible for the
rs misfortune.
When questioned as to what he
wv Of others who had been going
h Miss Berg, DR.. Jackson mention
the name of a man named Flavin,
o had been connected with the
toffice, but had left some months
Mr.. Roehl, superintendent Of the
GEMS hospital, in some indefinite +
2, as a possible case, but l have
heard anything of that since"
led DR.. Jackson in answer to the
~ on this matter