Raleigh, July 27—The only answer that will be made to the protest issued by the employes of Dr. R. S. Carroll in his sanitarium in Asheville, that Dr. Carroll was not given a fair trial before the State Board of Medical Examiners, which a few days ago revoked his license to practice in this state as the result of charges of immorality being sustained against him, will be made in court it was intimated today, although Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt would admit no more than the fact that he was “working on the case.” It is expected that an announcement of the course which the department of public welfare expects to take against Dr. Carroll, through the regular legal channels of the state, will be made within a few days.
A signed statement protesting against the finding of the board of medical examiners issued by the nurses and employes of the sanitarium of which Dr. Carroll is the head, declared that he had been misjudged, that they as employes had never heard any rumor even of any misconduct on his part, and stated that in the hearing before the board not a single former patient in the sanitarium had testified against him. The statement further maintained that the only witnesses appearing against him were persons who had tried to get positions with the sanitarium and who had failed to do so.
Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, commissioner of public welfare, who was instrumental in having the Carroll case investigated as a result of complaints which are understood to have been made by women patients, declined to reply to the statement, but intimated very strongly that full and complete answer would be made in court when the proper time comes.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, July 27, 1926
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