Rochester, Monroe, N.Y.
Union Advertiser
April 18, 1896
DOANE HAD A POOR EXCUSE
IT DIDN'T PREVENT THE JURY FROM CONVICTING HIM OF GRAND LARCENY.
Phillip DOANE was found guilty of grand larceny in the second degree by a County Court jury last evening. DOANE
left North Penfield about four years ago with a silver watch and some thirteen dollars in money belonging to Farmer
NORTHRUP. He admitted taking the watch and money, but pleaded that NORTHRUP owed him money and that his intentions
were all right. The jury, however, thought this was a poor excuse.
He was sentenced by Judge SUTHERLAND to pay a fine of $50 or serve fifty days in the penitentiary.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Union Advertiser
April 30, 1896
A NURSE'S SUICIDE
Miss Anna L. Whitaker Poisoned Herself With Morphine
Lost Her Place at the Homeopathic Hospital For Violating Rigid Rules
The Disgrace of Dismissal Made Her Despondent and She Took Her Own Life
Anna A WHITAKER, who until yesterday had held a position as nurse at the Rochester Homeopathic Hospital, committed
suicide yesterday afternoon by taking morphine. Miss WHITAKER was 24 years of age. She lived with her parents at
No. 103 Pearl street. She drank the poison at the house of a friend on Meigs street, and died at the hospital at
11:15 p.m.
Miss WHITAKER had been dismissed from service at the hospital for violation of the prescribed rules for treating
a typhoid fever patient. She had charge of the ward where the typhoid patients are treated and her violation of
the rules was considered a very serious offense.
On Tuesday afternoon the board of managers met and considered Miss WHITAKER'S case. Yesterday morning she was told
that she must leave. She received the announcement without any show of feeling and departed about 9:30 o'clock
a.m. It was discovered soon after that a bottle containing a solution of morphine, which Miss WHITAKER had been
using on patients, was missing.
When she left the hospital, Miss WHITAKER went immediately to the house of her friend. She was taken violently
ill there and assistance was summoned. Dr. John W. McCAULEY and Dr. Robert FRENCH answered and found that the woman
was suffering from the effects of poison. The ambulance was sent for and she was removed to the Homeopathic Hospital
where it was ascertained that she had taken ten or fifteen grains of morphine from the bottle which was found in
her pocket and which proved to be the one that she took from the hospital in the early morning. Every effort was
made to revive the unfortunate woman but it proved useless and she died shortly before midnight. Coroner KLEINDIENST
was summoned and is investigating the case.
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