THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CASE
the autopsy, and then immediately wrote your story of having seen this patient strangled to death and offered it for sale to the New York World?"
Witness. "That is right; yes, sir."
Counsel. "You say you knew it was your duty to go to the charity commissioner and tell him what you had seen. Did you go to him?"
Witness. "No, not after I found out through reading the autopsy that the man was killed."
Counsel. "Instead, you went to the World, and offered them the story in which you describe the way Hilliard was killed?"
Witness. "Yes."
Counsel. "And you did this within three or four hours of the time you read the newspaper account of the autopsy?"
Witness. "Yes."
Counsel. "The editors of the World refused your story unless you would put it in the form of an affidavit, did they not?"
Witness. "Yes."
Counsel. "Did you put it in the form of an affidavit?"
Witness. "Yes."
Counsel. "And that was the very night that you were discharged from the hospital?"
Witness. "Yes."
Counsel. "Every occurrence was then fresh in your mind, was it not?"
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