The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-05
KRUGER WILL
Be PLACED UNDER
$4,000 BOND
Physician Accused of Grimm
al Negligence to Face Grand
Jury on July l6.

The Wayne county grand jury will
be called for special session on Wed
nesday, July 16, to investigate charges
made by Coroner S. Edgar Bond
against DR.. F. w. Krueger, according
to an announcement made Saturday
afternoon by Judge w. A. Bond. Pend
ing the result of the grand jury inves-
tigation, DR.. Kruger will be placed
under a bond Of $4,000.
AS Prosecutor Freeman will be in
Liberty all next week with another
state case, it was found impossible to
bring the charges against Kruger be-
fore the grand jury next week, and
July 16 was fixed by the judge as the
earliest possible date for the investi-
cation.
| The complete report Of Coroner
Bond on the Kruger case will be filed
Saturday afternoon or Monday morn
ing, and arrangements are already be-
! ing made for holding DIR. Krueger.
Coroner Bond, in his verdict, charges
Kruger with criminal negligence and
makes him directly responsible for the
death Of the infant son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Smith, 213 North Eigh-
teenth street, which was found alive
on south side dump Wednesday aft
ernoon.
Four distinct charges of negligence
are made against Kruger, in the cor
oner's verdict, including failure to
properly care for the child after 1t was
rescued from the dump. The complete
verdict of the coroner follows:
State Of Indiana, Wayne County, S.. {:
I, S. Edgar Bond, coroner of said
| county, do hereby certify that upon
the End day of July, 1919, at Richmond,
Indiana, held an inquest on the body
of the infant John Smith, the follow
| ing being the report, in full, Of the
proceedings of said inquest:
was called by the prosecutor OF
Wayne county to view the remains
and carefully get the evidence and
above child. infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Smith, 313 N. 18th.
l was directed by the mother, who
was lying on the bed near by, to get
the infant body where it was lying
where it was placed by DR.. Kruger
when he returned it about o'clock
Tuesday P. M. In the presence Of
officer Kendall I removed the body
and found it cold and lifeless.
| 1t was removed to the local under
taking establishment, and an autopsy
held, which was performed by DR.. w
l.. Misener and the representative Of
the city health department, DR.. ]. H.
Kinsey, and county department, DR.. ].
NJ. Bulla, County Prosecutor Freeman
and Clerk Joe Waterman.
The child showed a marked deforn-
| ity about the head only, there being
no bony arch or skull over an upper
hemispheres on an area two inches
| in diameter, nor scalp, but the usual
membranous cover. From the superior
arch to the tip of it's toes it was an
unusually we'll developed infant. Au-
topsy revealed all organs perfect. The
! defect was a lack Of development OF
the upper hemispheres of the brain.
! Weight 6 pounds, ga ounces; cover
ed with meconium and birth debris.
i The covering was stained with blood
from the united cord. There being no
open wounds, this gave conclusive evi-
dence the blood had slowly seeped
| from the short united umbilical cord
of the child. From the evidence in
hand it was the deliberate purpose
this child should bleed to death en-
forced by the positive statement of
the doctor that it would be dead in 34
of an hour.
On the advice Of the physician the
| child was rolled in the cloths ready to
receive it and not washed, and was
laid on the chair without any atten.
ton. Exact scientific care was given
the mother. On the arrival of the
father at p. m. after the birth his
sympathies were aroused by move
ment in the bundle, but calmed by
the doctor saying it was not life, but
twitching of the nerves, and departed
without further examination.
During the night the child was SO
much alive as to keep the mother
awake by reason of it's movements
and occasional noise.
On DR.. krueger's arrival the follow
ing morning about a. m, the mother
said, "If this child can't live how can
we dispose of it." He then said, 81
will dispose of it, and carried it to
his auto and carried it away with him
He offered no explanation of the meth
cd of disposal.
| find no evidence to criminally i'm
plicate the members of the family in
wrong doing, but do think it displayed
a tremendous lack of interest to let it
be taken away without knowledge as
to how it should be disposed Of How
ever, they trusted to his advice es-
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