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illness from Captain Ludy and others
Captain LUdy upon finding hex Ill Ill
sisted that a nurse and a good physl
clan should be called 10 attend her
After this advice OF Ludys, d five
months foetus in decayed condition
was found in a closet of Miss Berg
room
She was removed to Beretania
Sanitarlum, where she died on Tues
day morning, July 81, 1871
There is evidence TO show that sne
was semidelirious most OF the time
after her removal TO the hospital
While IN the hospital she. according
to evidence, called repeatedly for Cap
tain Ludy, and told two nurses that
Ludy was responsible for her COndi
ton.
"On the contrary she made state
ment to Captain Ludy about ten min
utes before she died and in the pres
ence OF others, that would seem &c
eXonerate him from all blame.
Captain Ludy. when he found her
sick, offered to pay her expenses as
her friends had not come to her as
sistance. 1t appears also that he
stated to certain parties that II the
girl was going to die he might con
slider marriage to ner 20 save ler
good name. These last two facts
are damaging to Doctor Ludy's case
But he explains them by saying that
he was a good friend of tire cir
and that while he was IN no way re-
sponsible for her condition, he had de-
termined not to abandon her whe?
she needed friends and help.
There is no other eTidenCo da1h
aging to Doctor Ludy.
In his favor appears the follow
ing:
High recommendation as to moral
character.
High recommendation as to profes.
sional ability.
Conversations that DR.. Ludy had
with several parties indicating ignor'
ance of Miss Bergs pregnant condi'
ton.
Extreme unlikelihood of any pEy'
stefan having performed the "rLde
criminal operation. Captain Ludv'c IN
sisting that a reputable physician be
called in her case, while at the same
time and before he thus insisted on
medical attention for her, a decay
ing foetus was lying in the closet
of Miss Berg's room.
The statement made to captain
Ludy by Miss Berg just before she
died. which, in effect, was as fol-
lows:
els this a conspiracy to get you
mixed up with this? You had moth
ing to do with it,
The open manner in which Cap
tain Ludy's acquaintance with Miss
Berg was conducted.
THE strong probability that had
Captain Ludy been responsible for
the pregnant condition of the girl she
would have informed him of her con-
dition, which she quite evidently did
not do.
1.-THE evidence further brings out
an important matter for considera-
ton. This particular evidence is not
and is only circumstantial.
But, in view of the fact there is strong
evidence to throw suspicion upon
Captain Ludy, not as the perpetra-
tor of the criminal operation, but as
the man responsible for Miss Berg's
pregnant condition, and the fact that
there is also equally strong evidence
to make it appear as unlikely that
Doctor Ludy is guilty, Tin other words.
ideas and probabilities),
hen this evidence becomes important
and throws suspicion on man other
than Captain Ludy. Positive evil
ience Captain Glover's statement),
IS to the effect that a letter was re-
ceived in April from a nurse at the
Queens hospital by a lieutenant OF
the German ship Ge;er This let
.er was censored as the recipient was
hen a prisoner of war at Schofield
Barracks. 1t revealed the fact that
he nurse was in trouble, evidently
through the lieutenant, that 5le
planned herself and that she expected
o quit work soon. Miss Berg quilted
work, claiming stomach trouble, the
after part of April. Another CEN
;ored letter from this same officer
o a nurse at the Queens hospital
Justified the inference that he was
rying to get rid of her, and that he
wanted to sever all connections with
Ter. Still another censored letter
rom the same officer to a male
riend in Honolulu referred to the
frl and stated that he, the officer,
bought he had gotten rid of her %
asst.
THE name of the officer is known,
tut the name of the girl, nurse at
he Queens hospital, and of the mans
riends, are not revealed. Records
f the senders and recipients of let.
ers were kept but this was discon-
inued and these records lost in NOV
ne prison camp from one location
o another. But Sergeant Haley, Ma
hine Gun Troop, 4th Cavalry, thinks
e remembers recording the name OF
Mss Florence Berg, Queens hospital,
rhen he was employed on duty at
he prison camp. SergeantMajor
Bingham, 32nd Infantry, who also had
his duty for a time, also thinks he
emembers recording the same naae.
his, of course. is not positive.
The testimony of others reveals
he fact that the German sailors and
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