The director of Charity hospital said Tuesday an ambulance was en route to assist an injured former Army major when police cancelled the request.
Dr. Leo J. Kerne, in a statement explaining the hospital's participating in the case, said also that three physicians had examined the man when he was brought to Charity in a police emergency unit.
The ex-Army officer/ Carl] Thompson, 48, . 1507 Mandolin, suffered a skull fracture in a fall at a Paris ave. bar early! Monday morning. He was transferred from Charity to the Veterans Administration hospital: where he died some 40 minutes' later. j
Early reports said Charity had; failed to send an ambulance to the Bonanza Lounge, 3040 Paris j ave., and later had transferred' the victim without providing J treatment.
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His death was being invest!-1 gated by the Orleans parish coroner's office. The coroner, Dr. Nicholas Chetta, reported Tuesday Thompson had died of a subdural hemor
