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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Authorities in Stockton dismiss Higginbotham's claims of murder and mistreatment at the local hospital as fabrications to avoid prison for check forgery; he faces 10-month sentence and possible return for observation.
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Attorney Donald Boscoe, authorities at the hospital, and county officials branded as "pure fabrication" stories Higginbotham told of "murder and mistreatment" at the hospital.
They declared the stories were an apparent attempt to escape anticipated imprisonment in San Quentin penitentiary, the United Press reported.
Roscoe questioned Higginbotham and said the man claimed he saw men "killed" at the hospital, but was not definite about the number. Finally admitted "it might have been only two or three."
Higginbotham has been in the county jail for several weeks, having pleaded guilty to forging an $85 check. He is under sentence of 10 months.
Roscoe added Higginbotham never was ordered to San Quentin.
A decision yet to be made will determine whether or not Higginbotham will be removed from jail for observation and possible return to the Stockton hospital where he was under treatment from October 1938 to January, 1939.
Highlight of the Higginbotham stories was "an attendant would put a beer bottle down a man's throat and thus administer a certain medicine. The man would immediately go to sleep and the next day be dead."
District Attorney F. C. Clowdsley, Deputy Coroner Paul Lamb and Dr. Margaret Smythe, superintendent of the hospital, ridiculed the charges.
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Stockton
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stories branded as pure fabrication; higginbotham under sentence of 10 months for forging an $85 check; decision pending on removal from jail for observation and possible return to hospital.
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Attorney Donald Boscoe, hospital authorities, and county officials denied Higginbotham's stories of murder and mistreatment at the Stockton hospital as an attempt to escape imprisonment. Roscoe questioned Higginbotham, who claimed seeing men killed but admitted it might be only two or three. Higginbotham has been in county jail after pleading guilty to forging an $85 check and was never ordered to San Quentin. He was under treatment at the hospital from October 1938 to January 1939. Highlighted story involved an attendant using a beer bottle to administer medicine leading to death. District Attorney F. C. Clowdsley, Deputy Coroner Paul Lamb, and Dr. Margaret Smythe ridiculed the charges.