Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-03
CONSPIRACY TO INVOLVE LUDY
In DEATH OF NURSE CHARGED
BY FRIENDS OF ARMY CAPTAIN
Military and Police InVestiga-
ton Seeks to Discover Per-
son Who Performed Opera
.tion

Conspiracy, conspiracy, a conspir
acy to get you. Trying to get you for
crooked work that you haven't done.
Spoken just a short time before she
passed away, these words. which wit
nesses say we're said to Captain Jonn
Ludy by Miss Florence Berg, are con
sidered by his friends as generating
him of completely in the circumstances
which led to the performance Of an
illegal operation and the death OF thu
nurse.
Captain John Ludy, Fort Shafter
was called 70 the bedside OF Miss Berg
on Tuesday morning following her
cries for him. He was at the hospital
until she died.
A military investigation. now going
on, prevents Captain Ludy from max,
ing any public statement Or telling
his story. He has employed Attorney
Frank Thompson for his counsel in
the case.
Miss Florence Berg died at the Bere
tania Sanitarium at 4:45 Tuesday
morning following a criminal opera
ton which was performed al the Ia.
gleside hotel either by the woman hcI
self or by an unknown person. AfteI
her death an investigation was started
by the police and the military authori'
ties, which is now going on
While at the Engleside Captain Ludy
called on Miss Berg a week ago Sat
urday afternoon, and took her for an
automobile ride. On their way out to
Fort Shafter Miss Berg complained OF
being i'll and explained that she had
eaten pickles and ice cream and that
the combination had affected her
stomach. The party then returned to
the Engleside.
Captain Ludy met Miss Berg about
six or seven months ago when DR.
West, an inferno at the Queens hos
pital, introduced him to her. They
became well acquainted, 1t is said, and
he went out with her frequently, in
Producing her to his friends and max
ing her q member Of his parties. !
Except for what nurses have said
concerning her plans to get married,
nothing is known Of any plans tina:
Captain Ludy had of getting married
to Miss Berg. , His friends declare he
had made no arrangements for mar
rage. That parts of q trousscau were
found in her belongings following her
death is not, true, according to tina
police who made a search.
With the intention Of visiting heS
again, Captain Ludy went to see Miss
Berg on the Tuesday following their
ride in the automobile, and found her
sick. II IL said that he insisted that
q physician be called, but she protest.
ed vigorously. At this time she is
said to have claimed to have had pto-
maine poisoning.
George Henry, proprietor Of the
hotel, was asked to call a physician,
which he did, and on the following
day DR.. G. B. Cooper was summoned
to attend to the woman.
The woman threatened she would
I kill herself IL she were taken to the
Queens hospital, and protested agains:
the suggestion that she be removed to
some place where she receive closer
attention. Finally she was taken to
the Beretania sanitarium,
When her condition became critical
on Monday night, she c.lled for DR.
Ludy continually, beginning at abou:
midnight. DR.. A. F. jackson, who was
attending Miss Berg at the time, called
Captain Ludy. He was officer of the
day on Monday, which meant that he |
was to be on duty for "a hours, but
he made arrangements to leave his
post and hastened to the sanitarium.
On the day before, Sunday after.
noon, blood tests Of six men were
made at the Fort Chatter hospital
laboratory and finally one was found
whose blood was considered proper to
erfRT@s AEn nHa ~ II
OF his blood for ner. .
Captain Ludy shook hands with Miss
Berg when he arrived at her bedside,
according to eye-witnesses, and he !
was in her room until the final exam,
ination, when, it is said, it was proper |
that he should step out.
That an abortion was performed is |
the theory upon which the police are |
working now. 1t is said that the oper |
alton was self-performed and it is ar
gued that II could not have been such !
a wretchedly improper one, If not done /
so. But, on the other hand, 1t is |
urged that such an operation could
not possibly be performed alone.
That Captain Ludy is not RESPONSE |
BILE In any way for the performance OF |
the operation Is practically establish |
ed, his friends say, by the fact that
on the day on which 1t was supposedly |
performed he was on trip around |
the island. When the police discover
the person who performed the abor
tion. he or she will be arraigned on
a charge Of having performed an ii
legal operation.
Investigation OF the case is being |
carried on by the police, by the mill
tary authorities and by the hospital
authorities in their investigation OF
the charges Of Mrs. William Moe
against the superintendent Of the hos i
pital.
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