A police lieutenant said today that a 75-year-old man who shot a doctor yesterday and suffered a hand wound in the scuffle apparently had not been promptly treated at Charity hospital.
The police officer, Lt. James Arnold, said the man was still in the emergency ward at 9 a. m. today and apparently still had the same bandage on his wound which was applied at the shooting scene yesterday by crash truck crewmen.
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THE CHARITY Hospital patient is A. J. Dow, a retired merchant of Rayville,
Police said Dow ambushed Dr. Hugh T. Beacham about 1 p. m. yesterday in an 11th floor corridor of the Pere
Marquette Bldg. and shot the doctor in the shoulder.
A Charity Hospital official said today that the delay in removing Dow from the emergency room was caused by complicated factors in the case.
A. P. RICHARD, II, adminis |trative assistant to the director, said Dow was still in th€ emergency ward "awaiting consultation to see if lie should get immediate surgery or wait." He is also in need of psychi-
atric examination, Richard said. Dow, who had been treated by Dr. Beacham for a prostate gland condition, told police at the shooting scene yesterday that he blamed the doctor for "giving me a malignancy."
