Montana labor news., 1938-02-17
Buiie Man Complains
Should Receive Total
Permanent Disability
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being firm in my refusal to consent
to amputation, DR.. Shields told me
that he had done all that he could
for me, and that I should go up to
see Jerry Shea, that there was
nothing else that he could do for
me. When I went up to see Jerry
Shea, he got no further with the
amputation talk than DR.. Shields
did.
Later on I found out that there
was an abscess on the root of one
of my teeth and that that was where
the syphilis idea came in but if the
syphilis germs had been there I still
wonder what the outcome of an
amputation would have been had I
permitted any.
The summer of 1882 I told Jerry
Shea that I wished to go home for
a couple Of weeks to see my mother
as she had been very anxious about
me since l had been hurt, and he
told me to consult with physicians
in Leavenworth and see if they
would not advise an amputation. I
did ask DR.. S. M. Jackson, and his
reply was, George, are you a fool?
What good excuse have you for an
amputation?" Before I went East
the summer of 1882, Jerry Murphy
stopped me on Arizona and alumni
mum and told me to get out of town,
that I would be a charge on the
community. I went up to see a
lawyer in the Hirbour Building. He
said, Are you on compensation
| started to take my shoes and socks
off to show him my ankle. He said,
"You would not be on compensation
unless there was a good reason for
it, and as long as you r on COM
~pensation, you are in the employ of
the A. c. M. Co., and there is no
danger Of your being a charge on
the community. If he has anything
on you, let him come across"
The summer of 1888 I went back
to visit my mother again for about
a month and then returned about
the middle of July. I was being
annoyed by Jerry Murphy and Har-
rington. The objective was to get
me to go to the A. C. M. Co. and
ask for a settlement. Finally in
August l told Jerry Shea that l was
going home to spend the winter with
my mother and to send my COM
%pensation on to me, which he did
l told him that l would be back the
next summer, that is the summer of
1884, and as soon as 1 came back,
Jerry Murphy began stopping me
on the street and telling me to get
out of town. He was working for
the A. c. M. Co. and Jerry Shea
hoped to brighten me into asking for
a settlement. Finally he, Jerry
Murphy, told me on the corner of
Park and Dakota in front of the
Terminal drug store, n Friday
afternoon, that if he saw me here
again, he would pick me up. I had
already had three run-ins, and had
been vaged to the county Jail the
first time, spending 43 days there
before l could get a lawyer to do
anything for me. They had laid
down one after another until l got
one to get me out, and he told me
that l would not be safe here in
town, to get out at once, but
stayed. l did not do what was want
ed of me, to ask for a settlement.
Well, the summer of 1884 at the
Friday that Jerry Murphy had told
me he would run me in, the next
Monday noon l was walking down
Montana near Silver where Murphy
passed me going north in the police
roadster. In a few minutes he was
back with the Black Maria and
picked me up. When I got to the
police station, l asked him to please
phone for one or two lawyers that
l named. That afternoon I was
hauled into police court, l COM
planned that Mitten, n of the law
yers that l asked for, had come to
me. The reply was that Harry Free
bourn was out of town and Juttner,
they hardly knew of him, he had
no telephone and how could l ex-
pect them to get out and hunt for
him. l told them that Juttner's Of
flee was within a block of the sta
ton, at 1852 North Main. I asked
Judge Buckley for a continuance,