Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-16
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TRIAL DELAYED
ONE OF JURORS IN OSBORNE.
HoBSoN CASE BECOMES
ILL.
COURT ADJouRNs UNTIL
NEXT MONDAY MORNING
Or. Hobson. on Stand in His Own
Behalf, Denies Having Made State
ments Attributed to Him-Suit
outorowth Of Rivalry Between
Physicians and Hospitals.

SosS'V"H OF uivairy Between
Physicians and Hospitals.
Hampton, Oct. 16.-When court
convened yesterday to resume the
$4,000 SANDER suit brought by DR..
c. +. Osborne. chief surgeon at the
Lutheran hospital here, and I'r. A. +.
Hobson. another physician hero, a
member OF tho jury arose and told
Judge Thompson that one OIL their
number. o. w. Anderson of Sheffield,
had become i'll during the night and
was unable,to sit on the jury today.
Judge Thompson ordered an ad-
journment until 1890 a. m. Monday.
The extent or character OF the
jurors illness has not been ascer-
tanned. He has been taken to his
home.
The skeleton OF business rivalry
which amounted almost to a feud
was barred as the defense opened it's
case.
The defendant himself was on the
stand a large part OF the day. Coolly
and with no show Of nervousness he
answered the questions hurled at him
by John Senneff, one Of the plain
tins attorneys. He made a complete
denial OF ever having called the hos
pital q private harem" or having
said that DIR. Osborne was afflicted
with a venereal disease.
In fact. everything that has been
alleged SO far by the witnesses for the
planting was branded without reser-
walton by the defendant as base un-
truths.
Ton Character Witnesses caIIed.
Ten character witnesses for the
defendant took the stand during the
day. All were Franklin county men.
most Of them Hampton business men.
opinions OF DR.. Osborne ranged from
mot very good to very bad
Dr. Hobson was asked about the
testimony given by j. D. Bevans. edf-
tor of the st. Paul sensational news
paper called the Twin City Reporter
he admitted having been approached
by the Minnesotan. but denied that
ne gave utterances to anything dam
aging to DIR. sOsborne's character.
"Bevans explained" said the doc
tor, that he had come down to in
Vestigate q sensational story brought
to him by one Of his reporters, y. G,
Cox relative to DR.. Osborne's divorce
suit. He said be had been told that
the nurses at the hospital were mixed
up In it, and asked me what I knew
about 1t. Et
You'd better go around and talk
to the nurses" I advised him.
A fiat denial OF the statement by
DR.. Siberts, Of Geneva, that he had
called the plaintiff inexperienced OF
an ignoramus likewise was made BY
the defendant doctor.
Once Friend Of Siberts.
THE Geneva doctor and had been
good friends until about two years
ago." he said. "He often called on me
for friendly consultations, but about
two years, ago I disagreed with him
at one Of these and we had nothing
more to do with each other until last
March when he phoned me, telling
me he wanted to see me.
Or. Allen, my partner. had a case
over east Of Geneva and went along
with him. We called on DR.. Sibert's
patient and returned to his office,
DR.. Allen had returned by that time.
When I went to join him to come
home DR.. Siberts told me he had
something else he wanted to talk ia
me about. but told him was in q
hurry.
HE limited that he was dissatisfied
with the treatment he was receiving
when he took patients to Osborne's
hospital, and indicated that he would
like to change to my hospital.
"Dr. Allen will do good work for
you but he won't split any fees with
you," told him.
=" don't care Siberts replied.
TIM getting tired of that Osborne, 1"
Claims He Never Saw Woman.
That he didn't remember of ever
having seen Mrs. Galbraith Of Good
ell before she took the witness stand
and told of their alleged conversation
in cafe here in which she said he
attacked DR.. Osborne's character and
called the hospital private harem,
was DR.. Hobson's reply to the state
ments made by her. Denial that she
stopped in front of his office once
and asked about one Of the pictures
hanging in front Of the front window
was also entered.
DR.. Place. Of Council Bluffs, testi-
fled to having called on DR.. Hobson
last February while he was here with
a patient while he was undergoing
an operation at the Lutheran hospi-
tai. Claims that DR.. Hobson had
called the plaintiff an ignoramus,
graduate Of a third rate medical
school and that the hospital was a
veritable slaughter house from which
dead people were carried every day
were set up by the Council Bluffs
physician.
DR.. Hobson denied ever having
seen the man, while his attorneys
endeavored to prove that he had
been in frequent consultation with
attorneys for Osborne and with Os-
borne himself since plans for the
damage suit were formulated.
GOLDEN WEDDING.