The Washington times., 1936-01-07
.HE|RESS AYERS
HOSPITAL DATA
FALSIF|ED
Hewitt Girls Attorney
Alleges Sterilization
Records Revised

N.S0.-New sensations followed
today in the wake Of the startling
$500, 900 damage suit filed by Ann
Cooper Hewitt, 81, heiress to the
millions amassed by her famed
father, the renowned inventor
Peter Cooper Hewitt, against her
mother, two prominent San Fran
cisco physicians and a psychia-
trist who are accused In the suit
Of tricking the petite brunette
into a sterilization operation.
The girls attorney, Russell P.
Tyler, charged an apparent at
tempt to falsify the hospital
records of the sterilization opera
ton had been made.
Tyler declared chemical and
microscopic tests revealed the
words organs" and "infantile"
as they now appear in the record
were entered probably within the
last few days. He declared:
Chemical tests made of the ink
on the report conclusively shows
that the ink with which the two
words were written was applied
more recently than the ink on the
original record, which bears the
date of August 10, 1884, when the
operation was performed.
"A microscopic examination
shows the record had been tam
pered with-that the letter e
as it appears in the word organ
was written over the cross Of .
t. appearing in . word on line
directly underneath the word
organ
Obviously . recent attempt
was made to justify the opera
ton which deprived Miss Hewitt
of any chance Of motherhood"
Calls Mother Cruel
Characterizing her mother as
"cruel and selfish" and reciting
charges her mother plotted with
three co-defendantS in a con-
spiracy, eliminating in the sterili-
zation operation, the young
heiress' sensational complaint
was field in Superior Court here.
/, She stated in the complaint
she Still was a minor and ward
Of her mother, the much-married,
international Socialite, Mrs. Mary
on Hewitt McCarter, when the
operation, which she believed was
for the removal of her appendix,
was performed.
Under terms Of her fathers win,
the girl receives two-thirdS Of the
income from a $4,000, 900 trust
fund. Her mother receives the re-
naming third.
| A proviso of the will recited if
the girl married and bore children,
the two-thirds income would go to
them after her death, but if she
died childleSs, the entire income
would go to the mother.
Doctors Defense
A vastly different picture of the
sensational litigation bet ween
mother and daughter was drawn
by DR.. Tilton E. Tillman, DR..
Samuel G. Boyd sand Mrs. Mary
s. Scally, psychiatrist, named as
co-defendantS in the suit with Mrs.
McCarter.
DR.. Tillman, old friend Of the
Hewitt family. referred to by its
members as Uncle Tilt" declared
the operation was performed "for
the good Of the girl" He fatty
stated:
"The girl was Over-sexed and
in danger of a major disaster
to herself. Moreover, it would
have been impossible for her
to have q normal child.
81 would have done the same
thing if the girl had been my
daughter"
Mrs. Scally, member of the San
Francisco health department,
whose duty it is to make psyche
logic examinations for the depart
ment at the request Of physicians,
examined Miss Hewitt at the re-
quest of DR.. Tillman, filing a no
taried report with him classifying
the girl as high grade moron"