Show Criminal Action Decision Is Due in Sterilization Suit r SAN FR FRANCISCO Jan 10 UP With UP-With With bitter exchanges between between between be be- tween mother and daughter growing more pointed police today will decide whether criminal charges will be placed against Mrs Maryon faryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter and three codefendants named in Ann Cooper Conner Hewitts Hewitt's sterilization on suit District Attorney Atio Matthew v Brady Brady planned a conference with his assistant assistant assistant as as- August Fourtner Police Pollee Inspector Inspector Inspector In In- George Engler and other authorities who have been active in checking on the operation and the suit Confronting the officers was a welter of or charges and denials advanced advanced advanced ad ad- by Ann year old heiress her attorney Russell P. P Tyler and the defendants to the damage damage damage dam dam- age suit suit Dr Tilton Tillman Dr Samuel Bo Boyd d Mrs Mary ScaB Scally public health psychiatrist and the mother nother Mrs McCarter cCarter Ann a minor when the operation was performed In August 1934 Insisted in insisted insisted In- In her mother forced the sterilization sterilization steril sterll- in a plot to gain control of a trust fund and estimated 2000 estate left leCt by her father the famed Peter Cooper Hewitt Inventor inventor inventor tor and socially prominent New Yorker Dr Tilman who advised ad the sterilization sterIlization sterilization ster ster- Dr Bo Boyd d who performed the operation and Mrs Scally who gave Ann special examinations s at Dr Tilman's request classed the girl as feeble Ann denied the charge The doctors admitted she was not riot apprised of the nature of the operation TRENTON RENTON N. N J J. J Jan 19 UP UP- UP Affidavits of two physicians physician who sterilized Ann Cooper H Hewitt Indicated indicated indicated indi Indi- today they performed the operation operation operation op op- because of a a. phy physical ailment ail aU- aUment ailment ment without regard for lor her mental condition nn The Tho affidavits by Dr Samuel G. G Boyd Bod and Dr Tilton E E. Tillman Tiliman accompanied statements to the New ew Jersey chancery court by the 21 year old heiress and her mother Mrs Maryon Hewitt McCarter that the tho estate of Peter Cooper Hewitt was wa indebted by more than for the operation The surgeons said they had Mi Miss s Hewitt on an operating table to re remove remove re- re move her appendix when they discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered a disturbance of ol other organs organs organs or or- gans gans which necessitated ted tion Answering a suit for tor an accounting accounting accounting account account- ing of ot the he trust fund funa left Miss Hewitt Hewitt Hewitt Hew Hew- itt by her father Peter Cooper Hewitt Mrs McCarter said the girl was Involved almost constantly in dangerous affairs mostly with men in uniform regardless of their station Attorneys for the young heiress suing her mother in New Jersey for an accounting of the trust fund left by her father tather and in California for damages because of the sterilization also filed tiled an affidavit affidavit affidavit affi affi- davit for her in the Hackensack court It was a statement by Sarah Bradford Bradford Brad Brad- f ford rd nurse to the girl during her convalescence that Mrs McCarter was cruel inhuman unnatural and Inconsiderate and did not conduct herself as a normal mother would Mrs McCarter was frequently in int intoxicated intoxicated in- in t the nurse said |