The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-31

Circuit court re-conyened TUESDAY
morning when the famous case OF
DR.. j. M. Moses and Arthur wilson,
alias Roy Wilson, was brought before
the court, and an effort is being mace
to select a jury, but at four O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon it was thought by
the court officials that it would be
impossible to impanel jury from the
regular petit jurors of the Octoner
term and that the sheriff would have
to summon new men to SIT on THIS
hearing. On June %, the defendants
were brought into justice court IN
Hancock county, and the case attract
ed wide attention throughout the
county. DR.. j. M. Moses and Arthur
Wilson, purporting to come from Chi
cago, pulled off a con game, which net
ted them SIS in cash.
DR.. Moses represented himself to be
specialist and Arthur Wilson an
occulist They came to Lorraine where
they secured an auto and having
chosen Mrs. Mary G. Carr as their
victim, motored to her country home.
arriving there about 1880 in the
morning. Mrs. Carr's daughter. Miss
Iva Frances, aged about seventeen
years had been declining in health
during the early spring, her local
physician pronouncing her trouble as
cold of the lungs, when he treated her
| in March. Mr.. Wilson went to the
house and inquired about the daugh-
ter whereupon the mother informed
| him that she had gone to West Point
an would not return until about 2:SO
lip. m. Mr. Wilson informed Mrs.
Carr that this would be very conyen-
! lent for them, inasmuch as they had
| to make a trip southeast of Lorraine
| and operate on lady for gland
troubles, and could easily make the
| trip by 2:3O. True to their promise
they returned at the appointed hour,
and Mr.. Wilson informed Mrs. Carr
that DR.. Moses was outside in car
and he would have him come in and
examine the daughter. He then STEP
ped out onto the porch and motioned
for Dr. Moses to come to the house.
| DR.. Moses made thorough exam
nation Of her eyes, nose and throat
and lungs, pronouncing the young
lady in the first stages of tubercu-
!losis, and recommended that she take
their treatment for three months,
which would effect cure. DR.. Moses
then left the house, but Mr.. Wilson
was more insistent and remained to
persuade Mrs. Carr to have her daugh-
ter take the treatment, which she was
unwilling to do The fellows claimed
they had authority from the
state board of health to take the
daughter to Dwight to a sanitarium
and there the state would pay her ex
Ipenses, if the mother was not wortf
it, but if she were she would have il
Ito pay and they would put her in the
sanitarium where no one would have
permission to visit her for year
Then Wilson said he would give her
itwenty-four hours to make her decis
ion and by that time, if she had not
decided in favor Of their treatm ent
they would then take the daughter to
Dwight. without the mothers con
sent. Mrs. Carr consulted with the
daughter, suggesting that she thought
| 1t would be wise to take the treat
ment but the daughter demonstrated
and asked her mother whether she
thought they had authority to take
her away and the mother thought they
had, whereupon it was decided tn
take the three months treatment rec.
commended by the fellows, and a
check was drawn for SIS in their ia.
vor
The would be doctors went to Lo.
raine, cashed this check and took a
train for Quincy. Mrs. Carr soon dis.