Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1932 — Page 3

APRIL 20, 1032.

BLAME ILLEBAL OPERATIONS FOR FIFTY DEATHS Oklahoma Authorities Push Probe of Tragic ‘Epidemic’ After Co-Eds Succumb. Hy I m,trH 1V... OKLAHOMA CITY. April 29 Continuing hia investigation in rrcent death*, believed caused by illegal operations, Lewis Mods, county attorney, today said he believed ‘more than fifty young women and girls have died here in the past year" from such causes. Since Tnursdav, when it became known th-‘ two University of Oklahoma students had died within a week as a result, of such operations, the scope of the investigation has widened with every passing hour. Today an osteopath was held in jail, ienied '*ond. for preliminary hearing May fl. on a charge of murder. He was John W. Eisiminger, SO. named in the death bed statement. of Virginia WyckofT. pretty 22-vrar-old co-ed. as the man who had performed an operation upon her. Physician I* Hunted Another man. a physician, was hunted throughout the southwest on a similar charge He was Dr. R E. Thacker, against whom one murner charge nas oern filed, and two other complaints made. County Attornev Lewis Morris also wished to question im about a fourth ca.se. Morris named nine deaths of asserted victims of criminal operations. and announced each case wou'd be investigated eAsely. MHs WyckofT and Mrs. Frank Ice, 17-yeas-old bride {?f a universpv football star, both died at the Oklahoma Cvy general hospital. where they were taken after physicians found them in a serious condition. Sorrow at University Mrs Lee'* death caused deep sorrow at the university. where her courtship by Lee had been a romantic college idyll, and her death the tragic outcome of the couple's desire to keep their marriage secret. Weeping openly. Lee told of his meeting whh Miss Nancy Joe Seav of Wichita Falls. Tex., their brief courtship, and their marriage during fie interval between semesters. "We didn’t want the marriage annulled." said. "That’s what our folks would haip done had thev known of it.” Morris named seven others he aid he believed had died of similar operations. They were; Mrs F S Roach, died April 23; Ruth Hall. 22-

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