Milford chronicle., 1924-12-12
FAKE DOCTOR ABUSES
SMALL GIRLS AT new
CASTLE RURAL SCHOOLS
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ment, neither the teacher nor 'hC
pupils got the number of the car
but they have furnished a descrip.
tiOn of the man to the authorities.
It was not until Friday that q
woman in the neighborhood who had
heard of the affair, reported it to
Magistrate Daniel Thompson, OF
Newark, and also to Dr. Raymond
DOwnes, a member of the Newark
Board of Health. The latter tele-
phoned at once to DR.. Davis, at Do
yer, and learned that the supposed
physician was an imposter.
Magistrate Thompson and Miss
Campbell notified DR.. H. V. HollO-
way, of Dover, State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, of the incident
and he has sent a letter to all rural
teachers warning them of the inn
poster and that no examination of
pupils is being made by the State
Board.
DR.. Holloway got in touch with
Superintendent Reynolds, of the
State Highway Police, and acquaint-
ed him with the facts in the case.
Superintendent Reynolds sent Cor
poral Ray to the school to make an
investigation. He learned that the
supposed physician had presented
his credentials" evidently forged,
which were on stationery Of the
State Board of Health, which stated
that he, the supposed physician, had
been instructed to visit the school
and examine the pupils.
Miss Campbell, the teacher, asked
him if he proposed to make a physi-
cal examination and he told her no,
that he only wished to examine the
pupils for teeth and tonsils. When he
told Miss Campbell that he would
take each one separately to his car,
which was parked near the school
building, she objected, insisting that
the school be used. He said that it
was not at all necessary as he had a
closed car and it was warm there
and that there was no need to drive
the other pupils out into the open air
while he was making his eXamina-
tions. The supposed physician"
said it was better to take one at a
time, as to make his examinations
in the presence of all the pupils
might unnecessarily alarm them and
make them think that the ordeal
was more serious than it really was.
Miss Campbell still objected, but
the stranger impressed upon her
that he was backed up by the au-
thority of the State Board Of Educa-
tion, and that if she interfered with
him it might mean the loss of her
position. She finally, persuaded that
everything was all right, gave her
consent.
Each girl was taken out to the au-
tOmobile, and after the car door was
closed the examination was made.
The doctor" according to reports
made to the police, after getting the
girls into the car. removed their un-
dergarments. During the examina-
tion, it is said, he not only acted I'M
but used indecent language |
to the girls. Several of the older ones
fought his advances and he was COM
pelled to reease them for fear of de-
lection. He tried to quiet them by
telling them that it was all right.
That it was possible for the man
to continue his examinations, ac-
cording to the police, is due to the
fact that some Of the girls, instead
Of complaining to the teacher at
once, ran home first. The state
school officials do not censure Miss
Corporal Ray of the State High
way Police, upon his arrival, took a
description of the doctor" and also
to secure the license
number of his automobile. Some of
he children reported that it was a
Maryland license tag on the car
while others were sure it was a
license, but none of them
the number.
Miss Campbell, the teacher, re-
GENTLY reported that a number Of the
pupils had been afflicted with rash,
md a nurse had been sent to the
school to examine them. The nurse,
. woman arriving shortly after the
doctor" left, declared that it was
rery evident that mistake had been
made, as she had been directed to
make the examinations. About that
irne the parents began arriving and
t once it was learned that the "doc-
or" was a fakir. Miss Campbell at
nee notified the Office of DR.. Hollo-