Evening star., 1938-12-20
Text Of Indictment Charging Medical Society Plot Against c. H. A.

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indictment Doted by the grand
5tl,y after an Investigation of ac-
cnsdtions of conspiracy to re-
strain medical practice in the
District of Columbia:
The grand jurors of the United
States of America, at regular term
Of the District Court of the United
States for the District of Columbia,
to wit: The october 1898 term there
Of. held at Washington, in the Dis
trict of Columbia, after being duly
impaneled, sworn, and charged at
the term of court aforesaid, as an
additional grand jury in and for
said District, inquiring for the said
District, upon their oaths find and
present, as follows:
I. The Defendants.
/. The following corporations and
associations are hereby made de-
PENDANTS:
Cd American Medical Association,
incorporated under the laws of 1lli-
nois and having its Office and prin-
cipal place of business in Chicago,
ILL.,;
(2) The Medical Society of the
District of Columbia, incorporated
under an Act of Congress and hav-
ing It's Office and principal place OF
business in the District of Columbia;
(3) Harris County Medical Society,
an unincorporated association, hav-
its Office and its principal place OF
business in Houston, Harris County,
Tex:
"a Washington Academy of Surg
sry, an unincorporaed association,
having it's Office and its principal
place of business in the District OF
Columbia.
2. The following individuals, who
will be referred to hereinafter as
the individual defendants" are
hereby made defendants:
Arthur Carlisle Christie, Cour-
sen Baxter Conklin, James Bayard
Gregg Custis, William Dick Cutter.
Morris Fishbein, Thomas Allen
Groover, Robert Arthur Hooe, Rosco
Genung Leland, Leon Alphonse
Martel, Thomas Ernest Mattingly,
Francis Xavier McGovern, Thomas
Edwin Neill, Edward Hiram Reede,
William Mercer Sprigg, William
Joseph Stanton, John Ogle Warf1eld,
jr.: Olin West, Prentiss Wilson, Will
liam Creighton Woodward, Wallace
Mason Yater and Joseph Rogers
Young.
III. The Washington Hospitals.
3. Each of the following corpora
tons and associations were engaged
in the business of operating a hos
pital throughout the period OF the
conspiracy hereinafter described:
Central Dispensary and Emergency
Hospital, Children's Hospital of the
District of Columbia, Columbia Hos
pital for Women, Eastern Dispensary
and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal
Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Gar
field Memorial Hospital, George
town University Hospital, George
Washington University Hospital, Ma
tional Homeopathic Hospital of the
District of Columbia, Providence
Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital
and Washington Sanitarium and
Hospital.
These hospitals are located in
Washington in the District of Co.
lumbia, except that the Washing
ton Sanitarium and Hospital is
located in Takoma Park, Md. The
hospitals listed in this paragraph
will be referred to collectively here
matter as "the Washington hos
pitals." The said hospitals include
all of the hospitals in the District
Of Columbia not operated by the
Government.
III. Relationship Between Certain
Defendants.
A. Relationship between defend
ant American Medical Association
and defendants the Medical Society
Of the District of Columbia and Har-
ris County Medical Society.
4. Membership in defendant Amer
lean Medical Association is ordinarily
obtainable only through affiliated
State or territorial medical associ-
ations, known as constituent" as
sociations or societies of American
Medical Association. Defendant the
Medical Society of the District of
Columbia is a constituent medical
society of defendant American
Medical Association. Membership in
most constituent" associations or
societies is ordinarily obtainable only
through membership in affiliated
county or local medical societies,
known as competent" societies of
those constituent associations and
Of the American Medical Association
Defendant the Medical Society of
the District of Columbia has no
component societies.
Defendant Harris County Medical
Society is component medical So
ciety OF defendant American Medi-
cal Association. Members of affli-
ated component or constituent medi-
cal societies are, ipso facto, men,
bers of defendant American Medical
Association.
B. Memberships and Offices Held by
Individual Defendants.
5. Membership in defendant
American Medical Association was
held by all individual defendants
throughout the period of the con-
spiracy hereinafter described. For
many years, and throughout the
period of the conspiracy hereinafter
described, the following individual
defendants, namely, Morris Fish
bein, editor Of the Journal of the
American Medical Association; Olin
West, secretary and general manager
of the American Medical Associa-
tion; William Creighton Woodward,
director of the Bureau of Legal
Medicine and Legislation of the
American Medical Association; Will
liam Dick Cutter, secretary Of the
Council on Medical Education and