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Show LEFT TO DIE ALONE. Serious Charges Against the Humanity of Two Ocdeu Doctors in Councctioa with tins i . Death. Tile Ogdeu .S(;i.ij'd lias sprung a sensation, sensa-tion, reflecting rather seriously upon two prominent physicians of that city. Tue pojr man, Uua Erlckaon, who was last Friday run over and injured, died, a la senenilly known, in tUo Oifden City hospital on Saturday afternoon. On Monday he was buried at tbo publle expense. There la no question but that the unfortunate man was lutally hurt, but there is much indignation felt at the treatment he was alleged to have reeeivt d.lu his dying hours. As reported at the time he was injured he was taken up to l)r Couroy'a olliec in the Loan and Trust building. Do. tors Conroy and .) ones made au examination of Erlek-son's Erlek-son's body and administered opiates io him to lesson hla pains, whieli were Intense. Tliis was ail right, but now follows that wflich, it true, is an oulraga and deserves the severest condemnation. It if said that the poor man in his dying condition was left in Dr. Couroy'a. olilee for the night to shift for himself through all the weary, lonesome hours without comoauv or piece of his furniture had been used. 8o, poor Erieksou was east on the Uoor again, where he laid til) between 11 and 13 o'clock, when he was taken to the city hospital to brealhe ills last in a few hours afterwards. As he was being removed a Stavdunl reporter re-porter met Dr. Jones, who among other things said that the injured man should not have been kept in Dr. Conroy' s office all niirlit. Dr. Conroy was interviewed and that gentleman said that Erlckaon was provided wilh a cot and u man to stay with him. Another inau told the reporter Dr. Couroy requested Jones Io haVe Erieksou removed to the hospital the night of the aecincut, but to this Die city physician turned a deaf car. During the twenty. four hours that Erieksou Eriek-sou livcJ after he was injured, James Au-derson Au-derson of Anderson Pressed Brick Co., in whose employment Erickson was at tlio timu of the accident, made one call at Dr. Couroy's office to see Eri, kson, but mad no olfcr to do anything for hiui in ease he recovered, re-covered, or if he died. It la not know n w hether Krickson hud any wages coining to him at the time of his death of not. Viewed from whatever point the caae may be, some one is greatly to blaino for negligence neglig-ence of the man before hi! death, and there are some very uncomplimentary remarks iroing the rounds about l)rs. Jones and Conroy Con-roy and Mr. Anderson, all duo lo the statements state-ments made on tho streets and recorded In litis article. a bed. Some medicine was placed by Ills oide on tlio lloor. As tho hours dragged on his pain was excruciating end In his agony he moaned uloud. Through the great corridor corri-dor of tho Loan and 'irust, the groans of Erickton echoed and echoed till they at- I Ifteled the attention of I'atrolmcn Eggloaton i and Turnt--, who went up to the room occu-1 pied by the stilfe.-er to find out what was the j ' " u lie no r man, and! su . .nishing urouud in the building found in Dr. Perkins' oilico a sola. They carried It to Dr. Conroy's office and placed the sick man on it, and administered medicine to him and then left him to keep up their watch i, bout the block. The niglr! wore away until j t! o'clock Saturday uiorninjr, wtiun Dr. Convoy Con-voy returned, and, it is said, insisted tint ! the sofa be returned to Dr. I'erklns because the latter might be angry to Hud out thai a |