Doctor Charged in Convalesced Girl Neck Injury
A doctor faces charges after a convalesced girl sustained a snapped vertebrae. Investigators allege negligence led to serious neck injury during treatment.
07 Apr 1928
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1928
Page
1
A doctor faces charges after a convalesced girl sustained a snapped vertebrae. Investigators allege negligence led to serious neck injury during treatment.
Federal grand jury to indict Louis W. Hoffman, a practicing physiotherapist, for first degree murder in the case of Eleanor Lehman who died during treatment. Dolores Monroe testified Hoffman pressed for a false story and threatened her, leading to new arrests and a jail hold while the grand jury considers charges.
Albert B. Fall former Secretary of the Interior travels from El Paso to Pasadena by Southern Pacific train for an indefinite sanatorium stay on doctors orders. His wife daughter Mrs. B. F. Elliott and secretary H. G. Clunn accompany him. Fall, with low blood pressure, stays hopeful about possible heart treatment and notes he may remain on the coast under specialist care.
London typist Mercedes Gleitz swam the Straits of Gibraltar starting from the Spanish side and finishing at Punta Leona after twelve hours and fifty minutes of currents. Nearly seventy witnesses, mostly Spaniards, observed the feat as she endured swollen lips and a blistered face. She credited feeding on sandwiches omelettes oranges tea and coffee for endurance.
Col. James C. Fitzmaurice of the Irish Free State air force becomes the Bremen crew’s second pilot joining Capt. Hermann Koehl and Baron von Huenefeld. Arthur Spindler returned to Berlin after a reported quarrel with the baron.
Rome dispatch reports Pope Pius has appointed Joseph Chartrand Bishop of Indianapolis as assistant to the Papal throne and James John Keane Archbishop of Dubuque Iowa.
H B Warner, longtime friend, accuses actor Norman Trevor of mental imbalance. Trevor, 51, faces lunacy examination after arrest for issuing checks without funds. Warner cites delusions of wealth and extravagant purchases, including a $145 bouquet. Trevor was an India champion athlete and Olympic competitor who began in London 1907 and came to the U S in 1913.
An 18 year old youth, unidentified, died when a green touring car stolen with Edna Taylor's rear plate crashed near Walton Kentucky. Four men moved the body to Walton garage owner George Weyman's home. Police linked the vehicle to a Cincinnati robber gang and sought the car for weeks.
Goldie the collie, owned by Easton farmer William Wakeman, lay trapped for 55 days with two steel traps on a dense roadside fringe. A farm laborer found her weakly moving in leaves, her forepaw severed, rear leg trapped, and she was brought home for veterinary care with a hopeful prognosis.
Edgar M. Atkin, a former New York attorney, was found dead in a Washington lodging house with a gas jet open. He was a Yale baseball team pitcher where former Senator Wadsworth played first base. His widow resides in Stamford, Connecticut.
New York April 6 Japanese graduate students plan a world circumnavigation race. Toi chiro Araki will fly from San Francisco to New York via Trans Continental Airmail Line and aim for Hadley Field New Jersey before heading toward Paris Berlin Moscow and Tokyo. Opponent Ryukichi Matsui may fly westward once booked. prizes include 3000 yen for fastest time and 1000 yen for the loser. Araki aged 34 studied at Oregon University. Matsui 37 is a Keio graduate and a Sidney University lecturer.
In Fouke Arkansas a community well is found tainted with arsenic causing illness across five families at the J R Goldman sawmill camp. Mrs Nancy Lynn and her brother Robert Morris were arrested on charges of assault with intent to kill after authorities traced the poison to a Fouke drug store. The Lynn household holds timber interests from her late husband.
W H Peters, on a city committee led by Col. Sherrill, says West End ills stem from environment. He argues better tenements help families escape crime, dissipation and vice, but moral reform remains essential. The committee meets again Monday to continue study.
Walker P. Inman filed for divorce from Garnet Helene Patton Inman in Reno District Court claiming a violent temper. He is the son of Mrs. James B. Duke and Garnet Inman is the daughter of Rev. Arthur C. Patton of Kokomo Indiana. A separation agreement lists payments of $15 000 yearly until $75 000 has been paid.
Fire raged across South Mountain near Hagerstown destroying over 1500 acres of valuable timber. Volunteers forest officials and coal miners formed large patrols but the fire advanced rapidly aided by strong winds. In West Virginia about 160 fires lit up the state with roughly 1000 men and Boy Scouts deployed to fight flames from Charleston to Kanawha County.
In Rankin Oklahoma a prairie fire trapped Mrs Perry Underwood and her five year old son as they fought the blaze protecting their home. They were burned to death while husband Mr Underwood was severely burned but the home was saved when the wind shifted.
In Pittsburgh on April 6 a jury found 14 year old Robert Stevens not guilty of murder in the fatal robbery along the Allegheny River bank. The victim, slugged for $3.75, was killed. Stevens had been accused of taking part under threat from 16 year old Alvin Hess who was convicted of first degree murder last week.
In a domestic relations court hearing, Dale Dearwester testified that his wife Jane Henderson Dearwester, 21, formerly a chorus girl, had a lover's name tattooed on her leg. He also alleged she pawed a $100 ring to fund the divorce suit, but the wife's divorce claim for lack of support was dismissed by Judge Charles W. Hoffman.
New York April 6. Actors Equity bans Jeanne Engels from the legitimate stage for a year and a half and fines her two weeks salary. She vows to return on Broadway despite the ruling, claiming ill health caused her absence from "Her Cardboard Lover." Equity rules she cannot appear in any Equity joint production during the suspension, though vaudeville or film work remains allowed.
Sealed indictments led the list in a four day grand jury session reported by foreman W M Simmons before Judge Hickenlooper. Eleven of sixty nine true bills were sealed including probes into bankers near Cincinnati for banking law violations and other cases tied to Prohibition and interstate offenses.
Severe flood conditions spread as heavy melting snow caused breaches from the Tittabawassee near Midland to cut road links and trap residents. Levees were reinforced and fears for a Petoskey bridge span rose while Upper Big Rapids river levees were bolstered. Omaha and Eastern Nebraska regained telegraph and telephone service after heavy April snow, with radio the sole link earlier.
Ammanullah of Afghanistan and the royal entourage ran up unpaid bills in Paris London and Berlin during a three week tour. France paid 5 000 000 francs of dresses and couturier costs to avoid scandal while estimated unpaid debt totals reach 30 000 000 francs in England and the colonies. The British government hinted debts would be settled regardless of cost.
A dramatic incident unfolds in Chicago as an individual nicknamed Big Bill performs a guiding or luring role in a tangled public drama. The report labels a kidnap situation centered on Hamelintown with ongoing uncertainty about motives and outcomes.
Amid winded city conflict and crime, this sixth piece shows Nichols tracing Thompson and Deneen strategies in the ongoing battle for state and city political control.
A Chicago primary battle centers on the Crowe Thompson Small Smith slate and Senator Charles S. Deneen. The piece casts Deneen as a powerful patronage broker using federal posts to fortify his machine, contrasting him with a populist attack in the 1928 political turmoil.
Peter Traetvik, second engineer aboard the steamer Lempira, held on $15 000 bail for attempting to export rifle ammunition to Honduras. Authorities say 16 000 rounds were found concealed in his cabin. Hearing set for April 25 before U S Commissioner Cotter following a tip from customs guard J Marshall.
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