A Stitch in Time

WHY WOULD SOMEBODY CHECK INTO A HOSPITAL TO COMMIT SUICIDE? - That was the perplexing question that popped up in the case of Pemberton Freebody. - But the Long Island hospital surgeon testified that Freebody died of a self-inflicted wound. The insurance company was happy enough not paying off on his $100,000 policy. But the Sloan Guaranty Trust and John Putnam Thatcher order their own autopsy -- with damning results. When unnatural death struck again, it was clear that someone was prescribing murder as the best antidote to a hospital scandal.