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'THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 1. 1936.

HEIRESS'S MOTHER ON MAYHEM CHARGE

HEWITT CASE COMES BEFORE JURY.

ANNE HEWITT

"I never had any boy friends."

|AMERICAN CATHOLIC SAINT

21-YEAR-OLD GIRL ALLEGES SHE WAS TRICKED INTO OPERATION

San Francisco, June 1. · Two prominent San Francisco physicians go on trial, to-day charged with mayhem based on a complaint of 21-year-old Aun Cooper Hewitt, heiress to a $10,000,000 estate, that she was tricked into a sterilisation' operation by her mother, Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt McCarter.

Miss Cooper, whose father was the late Peter Cooper Hewitt, noted inventor, charged that Dr. Tilton B. Tillman and Dr. Samuel G. Boyd, performed the operation on her at the be hest of her mother, whom she alleges sought to gain control of her inheritance. Her father's-will-provided that if she should die without children the entire estate should revert to her mother.

Mrs. McCarter, who also is charged with mayhem, also was to have gone on trial, but she has been confined to a hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey, with pneumonia which developed fol- lowing her attempt at suicide by swallowing an overdose of seda- tive.

WOMAN REFUSES

TO SIGN BALANCE-SHEET

CREATES "DEADLOCK" FOR FIRM

TO PAY £500 FOR

LIBEL ON DIRECTOR

Damages of £500 were awarded at the County of London Sheriffs' Court this month to Mr. Foster English, of The Crescent, Hadley Wood.

The trial of the doctors, both of whom pleaded not guilty, at

their arraignment on April 13,

is an outgrowth of a $500,000 damage suit led by Miss Hewitt

against her mother, the two

physicians and Mrs. Mary Scally, [state * department of public

health psychiatrist.

At the time of the filing of the suit, Dr. Boyd publicly admitted perform- ing the operation and Dr. Tillman adinitted approving it. But both ex- plained that a report by Mrs. Scally had said Miss Hewitt was "feeble minded," with the intelligence of

more than 12. Dr.

jchild of notreviously had confirmed

man said he the report by his own observations over a period of six to eight months.

was The sterilisation August 18, 1934, at the same time performed Miss Hewitt underwent an appendici

tlx operation.

Mr. English, who is a director of

MENTAL CONDITION the Magnunt Cabinet Co. Ltd..

Dr. Boyd said Mrs. McCarter want- claimed damages for slander anded the operation performed "not be- 1lbel from Mrs. Emma Florenco | cause she didn't want her daughter Tichiaz, a fellow director, and wi- to have children, but because she was dow of his former partner.

Mr. II. O. Leon, for Mr. English, in a campaign against Mr. English said that Mrs. Tichinz had indulgod to destroy the business.

afraid her mental condition would lend her into moral difficulties.

To this, Miss ITewitt

replied:

Vatican City, May 20. Proceedings to sanctify Mother Maria Maddalena Benti- voglio, founder of the floor the United Clares Order in States, are progressing satis- factorily, it was learned at the office of the Sacred Congregation | should take her husband's place on her rooms the mere of Rites here to-day.

director

LOVE CHILD

I was kept shut up at home."

"Why I never had any boy friend. She described her mother's luxuri- ous apartment In New York. When Mr. Tichiaz died in 1932 Mr. "They English suggested that Mrs. Tichinz would occupied two floors. She have a battery of buttons In pressing of the Board. She became a

which would bring her a retinuo uf and received 28 a week in fees. In corvants.

One of the buttons led to 1932 the dividend Was 20 per Mother Bentivoglio's case was first

my room. It was customary for her, In 1933, when of cent.

Le Introduced at the Congregation

certi. дев Kitea November 13, 1931,

fed accounts came to be passed, Mrs. around two or three sim., to ring und

ring and ring, Tichlaz refused to pass them and em- The road to sainthood in the Roman played another firm of necountants Catholic Church-is-a-longthand, to investigate them. They found exhaustive journey. Mother Benti- nothing whatever wrong.

"I'd go up to her room, and she'd She still refused to pass the',ne-] be drunk, and mistreat me, throwing voglio, beloved and venerated by

4 up to me that I was a love child." thousands of Catholics, especially in counts or attend a meeting, and

and Indiana position of deadlock was Nebraska, Louisiann

Miss Hewitt was born in 1914 but where she founded convents, is slowly In 1935 Mr. English again pressed her parents did not marry until 1918. but surely nearing beatification, the her to try to attend to the business. In an earlier suit brought by Hewitt's

She Went to first important milestone toward;

another firm of ae- family, a court ruled the marriage everything had legitimised the birth and entitled all right. Still Mrs.

to share in her father's antisfied, and asked them to do it estate. Hewitt, descendant of Ame again, and again the accountants said rica's first millionaire, Peter Hewitt,

was all right. that everything was

added to the family fortune by his The company was unable to carry invention of the mercury vapour lamp. out its duties under the Companies widely used in photographic work, Act because Mrs. Tichinz would not and other devices, Efforts to make Mother Bentivoglio attend a meeting or sign the balance- o saint commenced in 1929 in the sheets. diocese of Indianapolis and

2MORE TO-DAY • TO-MORROW Canonization.

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Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PEROT FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street In the City of Victoria. Hongkong.

When proceedings for elevation to the honours of the altar have reached that point, the subsequent and final goal, canonisation, is usually but two years away.

were

reached.

countants, and they faz was not the girl

to

successfully terminated towards the "SCANDALOUS" CONDUCT end of 1992. The findings of the Mr. English's solicitors wrote diocesan process were forwarded to her, and in reply one of the alleged Rome and on November 8, 1935, the libets occurred, the passage reading: Congregation of Rites Inaugurated "Mr. English has forged my sign proceedings to investigate whether ture, as can be proved. Mother Bentivoglio had "lived and died in the odour of sanctity,"

REVISERS AT WORK

Miss Hewitt related that her mother once had her placed in a home for feable-minded children.

was only eight and perfectly sane and healthy. Six months later, ning a fever of 105, Why, I remember when distinctly how they gave me injections she took me out, I was ill, run-

which paralysed me from the legs

down."

MEETING ROYALTY

Later Mrs. Tichiaz, with a woman friend, went to the officer of the cam- pany and, in the presence of the clerk there, said of Mr. English: "You Mrs. McCarter, socially prominent Two theological revisers were ap-have forged my signature and you in her native Virginia, first was mar- pointed to examine the findings of the will see what I am going to

to do."

ried in 1902. Her Afth and last mar- diocesan process. The revisers are Other statements she was alleged rigo to a prominent New York attor- silll busy studying the case. As soon to have made were that Mr. English ney, George W. G. McCarter, ended in as they complote their investigation, was a thief and that he had defraud-divorce more than a year ago after the 30 counsellors comprising the ed the income tax authorities.

McCarter had charged she was "more Congregation of Rites will be assem- bled to pass judgment.

Was

in

Mr. English, in evidence, said there interested in the social advantages of was not the slightest truth in the meeting royalty" than she allegations.

him. It is impossible for the church to

After an investigation into the Burchell, regarding his posi-girl's charges, San Francisco prose- Mothor Bentivoglio's case for beatition under the Companies Act, Mr. cuting authorities sought to get Miss innka the formal, presentation of ceplying to the Under Sherir, Mr. fication and canonization until the English said that the return for 1935 Hawilt to sign a formal complaint counsellors have pronounced them-had been

with been Aled

endorsement. An

that would selves, Church officials with whom

permit filing of criminal Somerset

wore Houre

satisfied. "Icharges. She consistently declined. the United Prase talked, felt contain have done best to carry out me formal charge was sworn by that there will bono sudden develop statutory obligations," he added.

Inspector George Engured in- ments to the contrary since every Mr. Burchell said that the

Bob- Jury sequently the grand jury thing is progrensing very well indeed."

would no doubt think it scandalous dictments against Mrs. McCarter and Postulant of Bother Bentivoglio's that Mrs. Tichiaz had behaved in the the two physicians, The punishment way she had. Mr. English had done for mayhem in one to ten years in case is Father Antonio Santarelli the Order of Saint Francis of Assisi decent thing by her since her husband

everything in his power to do the prison.

LOVING MOTHER Cardinal Carle Raffaels Ross has been appointed relator of the case by the Congregation of Rites.

died.

Mrs. McCarter, through her New Jersey counsel, William V. Breslin, denied any ulterior motive in having the operation performed.

Adoration for Mother Bentivoglio homes and institutions in the United is not limited exclusively to the United States. After overcoming great dif- States, An army of admirers are to fculties, Including poverty, the be found right here in the Eternal Bentivoglios succeeded in founding City, for Mother Bentivoglio was born convents at Omaha, New Orleans in feme in 1834 in the severe, art clares Order to-day has fifteen con- until she testines. At that time hor and Evansville, Indiana. The Poor tically famed Flano Palace. The onlace in

"She is willing" he said, "as soon as she is physically able to meet and

the disprove all of malicious charges made against her. All she asks is that the public keep an open mind

opposite the church of San vents in the United States.

Lucina in the very heart Mother Dentivoglio died on Friday every action, she is positive, will be

vindicated. And she will have been

of the city. She was born a noble-] noon August 18, 1905 in the Evansville found to be a loving mother who acted

hors

woman, Countess Annetta Bentivoglio. convent

remains She entered the Poor Clares Orlar in buried. Above the tomb is written, solely for the protection of her chill." 1804. Her alater, Costanza was al- "Mother

Aaron Sapiro, prominent New York Maris Maddalens-Abbess A ready in the order,

of the Poor Clares. Born In Rome and Chicago lawyer, who once suod Henry Ford for $1,000,000, charging In 1876, Sistors Maria Maddalonn on July 29, 1884. Died at Evongvitha libelled the Jewish race, will defond and Costanza were chosen by Pope Poor Clares of America United Mrs. McCarter when she goes to trial.

August 18, 1906, Founder of the Prus IX to catablish Poor Clares Press.

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