The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati

Author:Sara Donati
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

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NEW YORK TIMES

Friday, May 25, 1883

EVENING EDITION

CORONER’S JURY TO EXAMINE TWO WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEATH OF JANINE CAMPBELL

Just one day ago, while the rest of the city enjoyed the fireworks display that closed the ceremonies for the new East River Bridge, an autopsy was performed at the New Amsterdam Charity Hospital. The deceased, Mrs. Janine Campbell, a married lady of respectable family and mother of four small boys, died earlier yesterday. The postmortem examination revealed evidence of malpractice.

The physicians subpoenaed for questioning in connection with this case were Dr. Sophie Verhoeven, who attended Mrs. Campbell at the birth of her fourth son in March, and Dr. Anna Savard, the surgeon on duty when Mrs. Campbell arrived at the New Amsterdam yesterday.

The two lady physicians are distant cousins who grew up together on Waverly Place. Sophie Savard Verhoeven, a mulatto, was born in New Orleans and came to New York as an orphan in 1865. Both women are graduates of Woman’s Medical School and properly registered at Sanitary Headquarters.

Drs. Savard and Verhoeven met with Coroner Lorenzo Hawthorn at his offices this afternoon, accompanied by their attorney, Conrad Belmont, Esq., to answer questions arising from an autopsy performed by Dr. Donald Manderston of Women’s Hospital. Subsequent to that meeting Coroner Hawthorn announced he will convene a jury. Jurors will decide if Mrs. Campbell’s death can be attributed to criminal malpractice on the part of one of the doctors who treated her. Such a finding would cause the doctors to be bound over to the grand jury to determine whether indictments are called for.

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NEW YORK WORLD

Friday, May 25, 1883

EVENING EDITION

MULATTO BRIDE TO FACE CORONER’S JURY

As reported in the early morning edition of the Post, Sophie E. Savard, married this morning to Peter Verhoeven, Esq., the wealthy son of one of the city’s most noble families, has been instructed to appear before a coroner’s jury on Monday. The deceased is Mrs. Janine Campbell, a young woman who was in Dr. Savard Verhoeven’s care at the time of her death by malpractice. Also being questioned is Dr. Anna Savard, the last physician to treat the victim on the day of her death.

Accordingly Mr. and Mrs. Verhoeven have postponed their departure for Marseilles.

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ANNA TOOK A cab to the Staten Island Ferry at the foot of Whitehall Street early Saturday morning, where Jack was waiting. He kissed her cheek and took her Gladstone bag and valise, bought tickets, and found seats quickly and without fuss. Anna, ill at ease and out of sorts after a poor night’s sleep, took exception. He seemed untouched by the events of the previous day, good and bad both. It set her teeth on edge.

When they had settled in for the journey Anna thought that he would raise the subject of the inquest, and was both relieved and irritated when he did not. Instead he talked of a letter from his mother and an ongoing rivalry between two sisters-in-law that had to do with what

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