The times-news., 1936-12-09
mrs. RANDLE'S.
CASE GOES TO.
GRAND. JURORS.
Diet Sheet Offered in Evi.
dence in Bay State
Medical Case

FALMOUTH, Mass, Dec. 8.-A
grand jury will pass on the charge
that Mrs. Helen Gertrude Randle
represented herself Us physician
and illegally practiced medicine.
After a man and q woman witness
had told their stories on the wit
ness stand in Wareham district
court here, Judge John II. Sullivan
said:
II am going to find that in this
case there is sufficient cause for
grand jury investigation. ] find
probable cause and hold the de-
PENDANT for the grand jury"
J. Frank Herman, counsel for
Mrs. Randle, interected, "This is
not q finding of guilty or not
guilty?" and Judge Sullivan an
swered, "Merely that this case is
worthy of research"
Although Mrs. Randle was tech
nically held for the December sit
ting of the Plymouth county SUI
perior court which opened Mon
day, Mr.. Herman said that there
will be no Plymouth grand jury
session until February. Bail Of
$1,000 furnished by +. H. Bristol
was continued.
On the witness stand Mrs. Ran
die, who operated q sun and diet
health resort last summer in Hen
dersonville, N. c., denied emphati-
cally that she had diagnosed the
ailments Of the prosecution wit
nesses. She said she had only of.
fered them diets which would build
up the blood stream and improve
their resistance. Judge Sullivan
in his finding remarked upon the
extent Of the conflicting teSti-
mony.
Only two Of the three counts in
volved in the case against Mrs.
Randle which led to her arrest in
Falmouth on November l6 were
presented to the court this morn
ing. These covered the sun and
diet leaders, relations with Mrs.
Alice Wordsworth and Edwin
Kerr, both of Wareham, in Sep
tember. A third count concerning |
Neil McLane in Wareham was in
definitely continued at the request
Of Mrs. Herman.
Mrs. Woodwork said she was
manager of a Wareham depart
ment store. On the stand she ap-
peared slim figure in blue. Her
jockey cap hat Of black set off
blonde hair and the plain blue
dress was only relieved by touches
of yellow braid at the throat and
waist. Mrs. Woodwork clasped q
black bag as she testified quietly
and firmly.
Mrs. Woodworth saw Mrs. RAN
die ut the Wareham home Of Harry
b. Ivers. MRS. Randle said had !
anemia and gave me a diet for
anemia," said the witness, "The
only other conversation was next
morning over the telephone. She
told me a urinalysis showed very
serious kidney trouble and that
should go Immediately to her re-
Suioiitlo \
The interview, at the Ivers home
was on September 13. Mrs. Wood
worth said she paid $25. for the
diet. The diet sheet was offered
in evidence. - ..st
On cross examination the wit
ness agreed that Mrs. Randle did
not represent herself as physi-
cian.. She insisted the diet was
prescribed for anemia. ,'
Mr.. Herman. II take it some in
formation came to you that Mrs.
Randle prescribed diets for people
in run down condition"
Witness: For everything"
Mr.. Herman: "The only things
set down in that diet were foods?"
Witness: eyes," "
Mr.. Herman. "Nor did she pre-
scribe any medicine"
Witness: "No." |
Mrs. Woodworth said she went
to Mrs. Randle because she was
tired and run down.
Edwin Kerr, a small man with q
touch Of gray in his black hair and
a gray flannel shirt under his
black coat was the other prosecu-
ton witness. He was small fea-
tured, alert, and mostly smiling.
He first saw Mrs. Randle on
September 10. The meeting was
at his home in .Wareham.
"Mrs. Randle was brought in
and introduced by Mrs. Freeman"
witness said, 81 gave up my chair
for her. She looked over at my
wife who was sitting there and
Mrs. Freeman said, This is the
woman who is suffering from gall
stones Mrs. Randle asked my
wife to stand up. Mrs. Randle
felt her all over, Then Mrs.tRan-
die said: e..
"Look at her stomach. You don't |
want a woman with q stomach like |
this. You let me send her down |
to North Carolina and I'll send
her back a woman you will be
proud of. She can come back
with a slim figure
"That didn't get me so much,"
commented the witness. Mr.. Kier-
nan objected and the witness re-
peated. his observation, "That did
not get me so much"
He continued that Mrs. Freeman
said he had asthma. Mrs. Randle
suggested a diet and the witness
objected that he wasn't going to
give up what he liked to eat for
asthma. Nevertheless the witness
said Mrs. Randle wrote him out
diet. He saw her again on the
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