Show DEATH OP OF wai G YOUNG investigation OF ITS CAUSE BY A 11 CORONERS julty JURY R Ite te ference has already been made in these columns to the death at dr S B youngs asylum about christmas time of an insane patient from rich sevier county his irh name was ivas WilliamG william G young ills his relatives and friends on hearing of his demise came to salt lake for the purpose of investigating ti tl into its cause coroner taylor lor on keing being notified saturday evening i agreed to meet with those desiring the inquest on monday at pm and did so when a jury consisting of win wm naylor john druce and francis platt proceeded to receive testimony as f follows 01 james stirling of this city said on january oth hellard of the death of william G young who had then been teen buried burled nine days he telegraphed telegraph e d to the relatives in richfield who had not been informed of it and told them he ha suspected foul play the father of the deceased arrived here january becote telegraphing he examined the sextons sex tons report a and a found that william died of scarlet fever thou though h the sextons sex tons book said spotted fever he telephoned and asked dr young and he said it was fever and replied to a question as to why the delatt relatives aus were not informed that he did not know there were any I 1 he fe heard the sextons Sex tons wife say that the message irom from dr young concerning the death looked su spacious spi cious and the sextons sex tons man said one part of the dead mans face was mortified the head matron of the asylum told his wife that william diedolf died of no trouble troubie at all but waned T gradually ra dually away and that she had asked dr r youna yonna to notify mrs stirling of it and he said he would but afterwards told her he had forgotten it three weeks after williams death dr young told him shirlin St stirling irlin and the father of deceased that ve he died of smallpox phineas young head keep ir er some months ago gave william a bla bia alack ck eye and skinned his bis nose wit nes suspected a blow on the hea deight days before his demise had caused the patients death witness was brother inlaw in law to the deceased judge snow prosecuting attorney attorn ei cross examined the witness he lie remarked incidentally that if the dead man died of small pox as dr young youn had stated the latter did dla right in haz having in a hasty ast y burial and that he the J judge was strongly opposed 0 ased f from rom pru I 1 mot motives ives ivet to a P iks disinterment lis interment albert D thurber selectman at testified to the insanity of the patient who was placed by sevier county in dr youngs asylum november lith 1883 dr young sent his bill for the care of the patient patten efrOm from november lith to december the patient a 1 tient died december 1 2 january at oth h williams Willi amIs father received a dis patch from relatives in this cit city a announcing noun cing his sons death win wm heark Z his guardian an telegraphed to dr youn young asking nu if it was so but received no answer dr Young afterwards answered a telegram from the probate judge that he had written particulars on orl arriving in the city witness talked with dr young who said the patient must have been exposed to smallpox on themay the wax way to the city witness doubted this ile he had since received a I 1 letter ietter ette r from wm 11 clark stating stat statin ln that dr young bg by letter had told the relatives william died led of of spotted fever james dunn of tooele thoele said he liehan had been requested to assist mr thurber in the investigation ile he had asked dr young why he would not give the friends and relatives satisfaction the dr answered that the reason was ivas the patient dle die died d of smallpox small pox and he mas was opposed to disinterment and on beune teung asked why lie he said it was spotted fever lie he evaded it the nie dr agreed to have hive the body hody examined by bv tile the quarantine faw lir pro proper or rc regulations I 1 tite tiie T city ity marshal marshai s said sald the only thing ming that ti I 1 at gooud croo crooked ett eft about it to him il I 1 mis was that the body was lyte iv wrapped rappel llla liia in a blanket is ith a cr c arl ari iu fill fili it I 1 t nut not ut 1 tol toe to be opened 11 wn it if this elev brather brother 1 inlaw in law of f tho the deceased said daiv the seg beg be ton told hl wife IV william allam died of spot ted fever sald hie hii could brn bri witnesses esses to prove e that william was seen digging diggin a ditch nine dads days before he be died pi dr young stated he was sick two weeks before his death judge snow asked the witness what good would result from examining the the body witness replied my idea is that he was knocked over the head and killed if there was aar any foul play we want to know it 11 witness atness then said dr young had bad told contradictory stories did nai not notify the relatives and placed obstacles in the way of the tion archibald young father of alae ac ceased testified as to how he first t was s apprized of his sons death etc corroborating rob orating icen iven and said dr nung young told him nis bis son died of smallpox small pox and said he would rould throw obstacles in the way ef disinterment the letter of dr berng seung eung to the probate judge of saw sal bounty county ou nty was then presented resented in ech chice erice it stated that william aed wed of spotted fever and so go violent was the attack and so sudden the demise conise fi that he had not had time to notify them as to his fatal sickness the was adjourned till I 1 1 pm 0 oday o day tuesday p in the coroner asked mr A D thurber if he be had anything f further to state 1 lie lle replied that he half had not mrs 11 11 young the matron of the asylum was sworn was at the asylum in december while the patient mr young was there lie he died about half past 12 christmas night dr young suggested su ested that it was two or three nights bjore before witness said sald deceased was brought there in september did bild not know of his condition except that he seemed not to know anything she had charge of the fessale patients only did not know ot el what died he never needed III lil usage he was too quiet did norget may way dr young was the only phy physician alcalan there knew mr stirling met him and his wife after the death of tha the patient mrs S asked what was the matter with her brother Told her he dwindled away till he died and had to be fed with a spoon by phinehas young the steward for two weeks before he i died in answer to dr young witness sald aid there were no clubs around at the asylum while phineas young bad been there there were some before but he burned them the then patient did not even show night fight after his hi return to the asylum a child could have taken care of him no violence was used to him nir Mr bentley helped to feed him he would sometimes not eat cat more than two spoonfuls of gruel no foul play could have been used or a any ny violence to the patient without wit witness ness knowledge another patient dalu daki tuh euh thomas elliot abife and he had a quarrel once and he was frightened but not hurt never heard dr young 0 say deceased died of small pox in answer to judge snow witness repeated that she did not know of what disease patient died ile he was kept in a room by himself no person but those who attended on him went into the room where he was kept by himself about about two weeks witness was not in there herself wanted adnee once to see him but was told it was not best for her to go in to the room mr phineas youn youns went there also mr john Bentley who is 28 29 years 0 of age in answer to one of the juers declared she never used the words dont blame me as aa stated in the conversation with the starlings Stir lings in reply to the coroner witness said she understood that the disease was contagious she helped to put car carbolic bolle acid on the things in which the body was wrapped did not see his features judge Z snow said he wanted to make some remarks assumed that win wm young died of a common disease about the of december and dmd was buried without any of his felat relatives ives lyes bein being present it a man died leaving a f family ily lly or relatives they would prefer to be present at the f funeral and stoe see thas it was appropriate appropriate if a person peton attached to utah died led at some hylant distant place ilis lils his friends would want the body preserved to bury it hero sa so in this case the friends would ti bile lle to have control of the body bou ara aaa should have had it ft unless the died of a contagious disease affa if the body could be betaken betoken taken up with safety he thought they should haw hate the privilege of removing mol arg it it il they wished and he wanted to learn Kam lamfrom ram from competent sources whether it it would be safe to disinter a body boe that had died of smallpox jf if a crime had been committed he wanted to tand it out and if the body could not at safely be removed he lie wanted to find nind that out B 11 II young of this oily wily q ma aged CO 60 was the next had d worked for two or three up tip to christ christi i nias mas building at I 1 t the ic asylum alith aleth all ali the c patients lw ibe iriv say sav there except one tommy illint Illi iiii qt required I 1 no force ever evor sav any ary club boot heel beel arany or any wt aann lidei used on him or any agy patient j ay iy A Q young several times lie he tried tr ed to td dig 11 out cell and witness idd h 14 ad to repair it this sst yas vi about threce three 0 or r fott foil r weeks before he died tiled llenas ho was helpless lahl in his i room about alve to seven days no violence to witness knowle knowledge dge he be was iru irn ilgin axin agin ed he was wag a n veny vent wealthy person deceased was fais teda tada gaea with vomiting was quite imbibe witness was uneasy with white spot swea on orl him and witness thought it feas utts smallpox declined to go into hrs llis room again no suspicion was in his kis mind that the ther deceased was yli hi used in any way was fed cracked wheat v hea t ch chicken an C erx elx broth beef tee tte etc he sank pretty fast ile he cited vomited some black substance and afterwards green was fastened with bands of cloth around his feet to k keep i him in bed considered patient t ie wull eer I 1 treated saw the body after death wrapped w ra aped up and dis infected in answer to jurors witness said he was working at the asylum up to several days after christmas and helped put the body antho in the sextons sexton sex tons ls wagon the disinfectants disinfect ants used were too strong for witness to bear never saw the matron in the room where patient lay but she was anxious after his welfare thought she was satisfied he had smallpox talked with dr young about the patient but he did not say sa Y definitely that the disease was small smail pox deceased would and aad when anyone came would ery try ty water and wanted to get out saw a piece of 01 blue paper on the coffia but did not know if anything was written on it did not hear anything about ids his relatives being informed us s to ills his death john W bentley ot of the second ward was then thea sword knew deceased he was very sick about two weeks fed feh him with soup bread gruel cracked wheat meat wuen vuen he could take it fed him with a spoon never saw any need for kicking or striking ne neven never saw or heard of any abuse deceased sank rapidly about the or of december died christmas night did not know what disease he had lle lie ile he had pim pimples on his breast and in his hair they has had yellow pustules pus tules on them heard it was smallpox once thought it etwas was but now no one else caught it I 1 ila in answer to judge snow 1 witness 1 R sg 1 sald said he was tending bricklayer it at tild asylum part of the time he wab was ivaa there ther e aad ead about a third of ha his time walked on patients saw deceased sometimes soWe times two or three t lire e times a day saw savy numerous pimples on him ig with white or yellow on top bild id not examine his back there thore were mere none on his limbs dr koun voun xoung young kald kaid it was spotted fever did nj etwas smallpox people eople were not rm 1 allowed a oceo in his room lecause because it was feared grazed his disease was contagious conta gions AVIt witness ness left lef t working at the asylum ea ork ath of january because there was no work for him nw saw jas graham tn in the eleventh ward the day he left oid told old him young was dead he be seemed to ao feel bad about it did not tell hammi ham that it was lust just aa als aeu that lle ile did didlot not know of the death in answer to a juror witness said eaid ae fie was wag not present at death of the deceased but saw him afterwards there was no discoloration indis face buthe but het looked thin there was no physician lar mi h 1 attendance on him axce except it dr r young did not know how often of ten I 1 be evi exl visited sia him the case is contin continuing uin m as JN Ws 4 go to press I 1 |