Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-29 | Page 5 | Police Arrest Mrs. Hewitt

POLICE ARREST MRS HEWITT JERSEY CITY N. N J. J Feb 2 29 UP Police UP-Police Police today Ii h held 0 1 d Maryon Cooper Hewitt mother of ot sterilized Ann Cooper Hewitt on charge of attempted suicide and for fori possible extradition to San Fra Fran i i cisco on ch charges of ot c conspiracy to commit mayhem J I Mrs Hewitt was wa found in the tho Jersey City Medical center last night In dangerous condition from froman an overdose of at a n narcotic Deputy Chief Chiet of Police Charles Wilson Mid aId ald she ho had attempted suicide A formal formal for for- mal charge will be bo placed as soon as she is out of danger ht he said I New Jersey law makes attempted suicide a felony j San Francisco police relayed in 1 formation to Jersey City police from New York police that Mrs Hewitt was in the hosp hospital taL Sho g gave vo her name namo when she was WM taken t tp the medical center February 21 as ns Mrs Jane of ot Boston She had hadi registered previously at a hotel under un un- der dor that name v New York police had sought he herfor her for more than a month with a a warrant from California charging she deceived her daughter into sub i to a sterilization operations operation Two surgeons Dr Tillman and Dr Samuel G. G Boyd face th tho same charges j Ann who is 21 now but was a a. a minor when the operation was performed performed per per- formed has charged her mother wanted to prevent her from having children who might share sharo in a fortune fortune for for- tune left by her father Peter Cooper Hewitt She filed suit for damages besides initiating th then th criminal l complaint Her mother f fand and the surgeons who performed the tho operation said paid aid Ann was mentally mentally mentally men men- tally defective