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Thursday, October 3, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9
by Kevin Thomas
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Nurse testifies Autumn Hills
patient was being starved
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A nursing
home placed an elderly patient on a
starvation diet before she died at the
facility, a nursing consultant testified
in state district court Wednesday.
Dolores Alford, a gerontological
nursing consultant from Dallas, said
Autumn Hills nursing home records
showed Elnora Breed was being fed
only 600 calories a day.
“Anything under 700 calories
would be starvation,” Alford said. “It
means they were starving the pa
tient.”
The testimony came in the mur
der trial of Autumn Hills Convales
cent Center Inc. and five of its cur
rent and former employees.
They are accused of murder by
neglect in the Nov. 20, 1978, death
of Breed. The 87-year-old woman
died after living at an Autumn Hills
facility in Texas City for 47 days.
Alford testified a doctor gave a
written order that Breed receive 600
cubic centimeters of liquid nourish
ment each day. But there was no
designation of what kind of food she
was to receive.
The records, she said, showed the
nursing home was giving Breed
about 600 calories of nourishment
each day. Any order for such a diet
is illegal “and a nurse cannot carry it
out,” Alford said.
She said the nursing home re
cords show Breed’s diet was boosted
to 250 cubic centimeters of nourish
ment six times a day, six days before
her death.
In earlier testimony Wednesday,
Alford testified a culture from a
bedsore on Breed’s body turned up
bacteria found in feces and urine.
“It means the patient had to be ly
ing in feces and urine for it to infect
the pressure sore,” Alford said.
The nursing consultant earlier
had testified Breed suffered at least
three bedsores. At least one of them
had reached advance stages and the
flesh was rotting.
“Nursing failed this lady,” Alford
said. “They abandoned her.”
Defendants in the trial are Cas
sandra Canlas, 31, former director
of nursing services; Autumn Hills
president Robert Gay, 58; vice presi
dent Ron Pohlmeyer; Mattie Locke,
42, a nursing consultant; and Vir
ginia Wilson, 62, former administra
tor of the Texas City nursing home.
The trial has been moved to San
Antonio on a change of venue.
Five death sentences upheld by court
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals on Wednesday
upheld five death sentences, includ
ing that of an ex-convict found
guilty of killing the wife of a minister
who had befriended him.
Jeffery Barney was convicted in
the Nov. 25, 1981, strangulation of
Ruby Longsworth at her Pasadena
home.
Mrs. Longsworth’s husband John
is a minister who had helped Barney
win parole from prison, where he
had been serving an auto theft sen
tence.
According to court records, Bar
ney, then 23, strangled Mrs.
Longsworth with a microphone cord
while her husband was out of town.
The victim also was sexually as
saulted.
Longsworth testified on Barney’s
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behalf during the punishment phase
of the trial, a fact that puzzled Court
of Criminal Appeals Judge Marvin
Teague.
Teague, in a dissent that said
there were problems in Barney’s
trial stated:
“Given the facts of this case, it is
difficult to understand or compre
hend why the husband-victim testi
fied ... on behalf of (Barney), unless
there is more than meets the eye
than what is stated in the majority
opinion.”
The majority opinion, written by
Judge Chuck Miller, overruled all
appeal points raised by Barney.
“This deliberate and brutal mur
der coupled with (Barney’s) subse
quent callous conduct evidences a to
tal lack of regard for the sanctity of
life, ownership of property and re
spect for the personal dignity of in
dividuals who had gone out of their
way to help him,” Miller said.
In another Harris County case,
the Court of Criminal Appeals
upheld the death sentence of Mi
chael Goodman. He was convicted in
the Oct. 16, 1979, shooting death of
Jackie Ouin at a lounge.
In a Dallas case, the appeals court
affirmed the capital murder convic
tion and death sentence of David
McKay in the March 4, 1982, shoot
ing death of Bobby Hill.
The appeals judges upheld the
death sentence of Robert Streetman,
convicted in Hardin County in the
Dec. 17, 1982, shooting death of
Christine Baker.
Also affirmed was the death sen
tence ordered for Jose Guzmon,
convicted in Navarro County in the
Feb. 4, 1984, death of Henry Finch.
Musical success story of a
generation.."
Schonberg^he New York Times
Charles Wadsworth, Artistic Director
The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center
Tuesday, October 8, 1985
8:00 p.m./Rudder Auditorium
Under the artistic direction of Charles Wadsworth, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has
lured a brand new audience to experience chamber music which previously was an art reserved for an elite
few. Wadsworth introduces music and performers as one might share intimate chit-chat with family
gathered for a southern-fried chicken dinner. Wadsworth sports a “Dennis the Menace” cowlick and
boyish appearance which serve to put his audience at ease to enjoy chamber music in relaxing atmosphere.
Wadsworth plays the piano, harpsichord and organ. He will appear with violinists Ik-Hwan Bae and Ida
Kavafian, clarinetist Gervase de Peyer, violist Walter Tfampler and cellist Fred Sherry. As an added
attraction, a Lagniappe Lecture previewing the night’s performance will be conducted by Franz Krager
in Rudder Theatre at 6:45 p.m.
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