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Show EVIDENCE OF A GRIME Developments of the Autopsy on Miss Branting. INSTRUMENT WAS REVEALED A Catheter Manipulated by Some Un-practiced Un-practiced Itnnd Had Punctured the Walls of tho Uterus, Causing Inflammation In-flammation and Death From PeritonitisDoctor Peri-tonitisDoctor and Nurse Kntw the Ctrl to Bo In a Dsllctte ConditionSomeone Condi-tionSomeone Will Be 1'ios'cutcd for the Crime (Mondj) s lull) ) The grave ot Miss Mary V Dnntlns In the Ogden ccmcter) )eMerdiy Melded Meld-ed tip Its secret, and i dark secret It was Under the practiced hands of the surueons who performed the au-tops) au-tops) the body disclosed Indisputable evidence of peritonitis rrom blood poisoning poi-soning and If any ftiithot proof were needed of tho cause of the girl s death at Mrs Cordons prlvnte hospital one week ago It wan found In the form of a sort rubber catheter about six Inches lone IKUIT0N1TIM CAUSKD DEATH. Tho Instrument hnd penetrated the posterior wall of the uterus and four Inches ot Its length was Imbedded In the Intestines In tho abdominal cav lty. The doctors found but one con elusion to draw from the discovery of the catheter and that was that death was due to peritonitis Induced by a criminal operation nnd not to "asthe-nlo" "asthe-nlo" or 'reflex omltlng" a- certified to by Dr. A. McCuituln the ph)slclan who attended Miss Urantlng In her last Illness KXPECTIID TO hi: AHRKSTKD The uutopsy waB performed by Drs. Ma)o and Ullerbeek In a little bouse nenr the open grave Dr Powers of the Ogden Hoard of Health Dr. Torhes, County I'hjslclnn of Weber county, and Dr McCurtaln looked on while the knives of the surgeons did their work The latter physician expressed ex-pressed great sut prise at the develop-ments develop-ments and frank!) stated that ho exported ex-ported tr. tw, nlflee.l nnitee nrrnil Th day before the autopsy he stated to n reporter in the most positive language that the girl did not die of blood poisoning, poi-soning, but the appearance of the Internal In-ternal organs, nnd. nbove all. tho dls-covory dls-covory of the Instrument, forced him to confess himself mistaken. Dr. Ma)o removed the uterus, pi iced It In a preservative prepaiatlon and brought It, together with the Instrument, Instru-ment, to Salt iJkc when the party re-turned re-turned at 8 o clock last evening noth were delivered to County Attorney Chrlstensen, who had gone to Ogden ns ho anticipated Drs, Walte and Has-brouck, Has-brouck, who had been proposed by Dr. McCurtaln a his representatives, were also absent from the autopsy DOCTOrt WONT TALK. Upon the rctim of the party Dr McCurtaln was Interviewed by Mr Chrlstensen, and Micrlff Na)lor questioned ques-tioned Mrs, Gordon again concerning; tho last days of Miss inantlngn life Several Important details were odded to the knowledue of the authorities Among other statements Ihe ph)slclan and nur said the girl had a rnl-cm-rlagc nt the hospltnl the day before her death W hen called up h) a reporter last evening Dr McCurtaln flitly lefused to be Interviewed or to make any statement state-ment for publication. In reply to the question, "Did ou not know that the patient was en-t en-t elnte"' he replied, ' It Is not llkel) that I would attend her for four rta)s and not know that ' Mrs. tloidon said lute last night MHS. COHDON H STATEMENT "I have no suspicion who could have petfotmed tho operation, but It could not have been done while she was here, and she only went up town twice ntler she came her I do not remembet tho exact date when she went out last but I think it was about three dajs utter she enme The Inst week be--fore her death she was in bed all the time Di. McCurtaln was with her onl) a few minutes at each call I was ul-vvas ul-vvas present nnd I nm positive that he did nothing of the kind W hen ho first called Miss Urantlng admitted to him that she was pregnant hut sho did not mention It to me until one day latci ' The rnetus was delivered the day before her death It reemed pertectl) natural, and I supposed the mishap hud been caused by her vomiting I saw no reason to suspect that tin Instrument In-strument had been used, for violent vomiting frequently has such an effect. ef-fect. That is wh) Dr McCurtaln ns-crlbed ns-crlbed her f h tn rellex vomiting' Mrs. (lore' said that something over it enr ugu Miss lliantlng came to her hospital suffttlng fiom hemnr-rhagrs hemnr-rhagrs which she eonressed had been caused b) an abortion punluce.1 somo tlnio prevlnuslv b) the ik nt pills HUH I never suspected an) thing of that sort this time" continued the nurse 'for the person who she sild was responsible hail gono nwny She told me abanluielv nothing to Indicate thai Instruments bad been used on this occasion ind I never saw one about her room ' WIU,N WOItK, WAS DONE From tho state of the bod) Dr Main deduced two ver) Important conclti-slims conclti-slims Ono that the Instrument hnd beon uwd not more than seven da)s before death and tho other that It had been us.d by the unskillful h in 1 of some person utifamlllai with nnnt urn) Th. distention of the uterus In-dliuted In-dliuted u pregnancy of between two and throe months WILL I'I'MI INVESTIGATION With suih absolute evlderce that the girl bet self or someone else hud performed per-formed u criminal operation tho au-thoiitlea au-thoiitlea see but one course to pursue Wo will push the Investigation to the limit said Count) Attorney Chris-tensen Chris-tensen last night 'No urrests will be mudo tonight and I nm not ptcparel tn state whom we will arrest or when It will be done, but someone will bo prosecuted The authorities have discovered who Miss Urantlng s steady company has been for the past two enrs a )oung man who mile hei acquaintance in a buslneta way while trading lu hot department nt the store, but they are not prepared to sa) that ho is responsible respon-sible foi hei condition. He will not bo Implicated unless It can be shown that he Instigated the abortion DEATH Cl'UriFJCATi: I.O!T The original deith certificate signed by Dr McCurtaln and delivered to the undertakers nssiMnnt at tht lime of Miss Drantlnc s death has disappeared A S Wntsnn the undertaker explained ex-plained the cliiumstiincrs hiBt night as follows Alter we received the body I sent Ihe lerllllratc lo Dr King In order lo get a shipping iciml. lie issued the permit nnd rent back the certificate That was on s-nturday. and It was bo-ittiise bo-ittiise tho health depirlmtnt was iloeed tint we went to Dr King On Monday I ask q my assistant If bo hod teiordel the eertllttnte tint we found that It had been nilsliid We pro ur.d a dull at und dellvcrd It to Hora e Smith tho clerk of the tlrdlth deiartir nt, when he culled for It four da ii&u, ' |