Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. FOWLER DOCTOR CONNECTED With Death of Lochiel Woman Following Criminal Operation, It Is Alleged. Saturday’s Lafayette Journal contained the following dispatch from Fowler: The people of Benton county are greatly excited over the statements alleged to have been made by Mrs. Robert Jones of Lochiel, who died at the home of her parents yesterday, and it is thought one of the most prominent physicians of Benton county will be charged with performing a criminal operation. Mrs. Jones was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bartlett and it is alleged that the operation was performed on Decoration day. When the woman died Dr. Clayton who last attended her refused to sign a death certificate, and it is said that he has a statement given to him by Mrs. Jones just before she died in which she accuses a local physician with performing the operation that caused her death. Coroner LeSage and Dr. Mavity conducted an autopsy and found that death was caused by peritonitis which developed after a criminal operation had been performed Dr. LeSage signed the death certificate, so stating. .Mrs. Jones was 28 years old. Her husband is a section hand. The stateemnt made by Mrs. Jones will be given to Prosecutor Nolin by Dr. Clayton as soon as he returns. The alleged Statement of the dead woman has caused considerable excitement here as the physician implicated is one of the best known in northern Indiana.