Evening star., 1947-11-09

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stretcher."
The removal of Mr.. Bunch &C.
Cured at approximately 7:l5 pm.
Therefore, this second statement
implies that Mr.. Bunch was un-
attended in spite Of Regan's calls
for help for a period of around
three hours or from 4 pm. to Z
pm. In Regan's first statement,
however, he placed the time of the
beginning Of the convulson at about
or pm"
Interviewed Again.
In view of Mr.. Regan's use OF the
word maui" in his statement sup
piled the attorney Of the deceased's S
family, the bureau agents inter-
viewed him again on october 25
A part of this interview is set out
here:
@. I want to point your attention
to a paragraph that reads as fol-
lows-then you make whatever
comment you want about 1t. You
are talking about the time police
officers came back to the cell while
Bunch was there. Finally they
got In there and got to mauling the
man around trying to dress him
They cussed him out and said he
had no business getting undressed
and asked him what he wanted to
do that for. There was lot of cuss
words. Finally they tried to get
him to walk. Brought a stretcher
back and tried to make him walk
to it. He couldn't walk and they
had to help him on the stretcher
What did you mean by the word
maui?
A. Well, didn't say it. !
couldn't say but I could just from
what I could hear from sounds
couldn't actually say. I couldn't
make a statement I saw because !
couldn't. They were have trouble
getting the man dressed.
@. You determined that from the
sounds you heard in the cell. BY
the word maui you didn't mean
that the police officers were beating
the man?
A. No. No.
@. How did the word maui
happen to get in here7
A. don't know.
@. You didn't say 1t? I just
wanted to get straight what you
meant. Did you mean they were
rough and '''
A. Yeah.
@. Rough in dressing him7
A. Yeah. That's either Fitzpa-
tricks word or ""s
@. You read this statement over
before you signed it. You probably
read the word hurriedly?
A. Huh?
@. Did you read that word
maui?
A. Yeah. I didn't put no mean
ing into it.
From all of the above, 1t appears
that at most. Regan's testimony
charges the police with negligence In
that they apparently did not exer-
else a sufficient amount of care due
Mr.. Bunch in view of his illness.
Statement Modified.
In the statement made to the at
torney for the family and later re-
leased to the press, which has since
been considerably modified by Mr.
Regan, he stated "the man topped
around like a rubber ball" Regar
admits that he never did see Mr.
Bunch during any of these convul-
sons. That he could not see Bunch
is apparent from an examination oi
the cell block, for each cell room Il
separated from the other by a solid
piece Of sheet steel running from
floor to ceiling. Regan admits nov
that all he knows is that he heart
sounds which to him sounded like 9
man having convulsions.
The records of St. Elizabeths Hos,
pitai indicate his commitment to st
Mizabeths Hospital in 1887 afte,
being adjudicated by jury OF
March 19, 1887, as a person of un
sound mind. The legal disabilit,
resulting from his being adjudicatee
"a person TO unsound mind" has no
been removed by any subsequen
court action. This alone would seen
to destroy any evidentiary value O.
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