The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-17

other sickness?" the coroner asked.
"She never did. She was the
healthist girl" was the answer.
Oberholtzer said Madge was %
on Nov. 10.
Miss Spratley. middle aged Eng
lish woman, preceded Oberholtzer
on the stand. She spoke in a broad
English accent hard to follow. She
is a registered nurse in Minnesota,
she said, and has been one for
twenty-eight or twenty-nine years.
ON March II, between IL and II,
l got a message from DR.. Kings
bury, who told me to go to $500 Uni
versity Ave, / guess it isl am not
very long on remembering num-
bers.
Girl Severely Bruised
when ] got there I found a girl
lying in bed severely bruised, quite
conscious. had expected to find a
man.
"She told me to call a doctor and
he would tell me what was the mat
ter. called him and he came at
once.
He told she had-I can't remem-
Der exactly-she had been out with
some men, been badly mistreated. At
the time l did not know what he
meant. He said she was so badly
upset she had taken poiscn-six
tablets.
unfortunately she had had no
medical aid for forty-eight hours and
so in his words, he guessed she was
a guner, but we must do our best,
and he gave me instructions. At
once we set to work. Her parents
were not there. Before the doctor
left the mother came home. He told
her the story.
Describes Bruises
LAS soon as she was able to stand
1t I bathed her in bed and discovered
she was badly bruised and lacerated.
The left breast was very badly
bruised and had two decorations. The
right breast was badly bruised and
the right cheek. The tongue was
swoolen and lacerated The abdomen
was badly bruised. Other portions
OF her body were badly bruised and
lacerated, and there were smaller
bruises on the legs and ankles.
he Ann lf
memory.
Coroner Robinson attempted to
ascertain the nature Of the bruises
and decorations.
What was the appearance Of the
bruises?" he asked.
BLACK and blue. torn and LAGER
ated." was the answer.
Did the bruises cover a large
area?"
Yes around the breast. top part. p"
Did these bruised areas have the
appearance Of being struck by some
thing"
Il could not say. They were
large bruises. The whole upper part
of her breast was bruised"
You could not tell if something
had struck her causing the bruises?"
"Madge Told Me-
II could not tell A few days
later Madge told me"
Just what II was Miss Oberholtzer
told the nurse never was revealed.
Then followed a description of rem
edies administered in aemps allevi-
ae Miss Oberholzer's sufferings.
The patien was conscious for two
weeks. according to the nurse.
Don't mind all those details, -"
Robinson said. Tell me when she
got worse. l know about what you
want to say but yo uare having diff
ficulty in saying it,"
In State OF Coma
well she gradually weakened"
Miss Spratley said. "On the six
teenth day she got out of her head
Up to then she had been very. very
clear. From then on she gradually
got weaker. For the last three days
of her life she was in a state of
complete coma"
when did she die?"
1t was really unexpected. The
night before. Monday, she appeared
to be better. Tuesday morning at s
/ thought l should call a doctor.
He came. He then said she would
go and he could do no more. At 10
a. m. / took her temperature. II
was 1862. Five minutes later she
was dead"
This concluded Miss SnratleV's