Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990 TAG: 9006200418
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Police said Margaret Beatrice Jones, 32, of Orange Avenue Northwest, was arrested this week after a lengthy investigation of the June 4 incident.
Jones is charged with the malicious wounding of Annie Wells, a resident of the Liberty House Nursing Home on King George Avenue Southwest.
Police said Jones suffered two broken legs, multiple bruises to her left arm and cuts to left arm and left leg. She was taken to Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, where hospital officials said today that she is still a patient. Officials declined to release her condition.
Police declined to comment on a possible motive for the attack.
Judy Knecht, administrator of the home, said today that Jones is no longer employed there. She declined to comment on the case, saying she did not know that charges had been filed against Jones.
Police opened an investigation after they received an anonymous call from someone who said she had seen the elderly, bedridden Wells being beaten the morning of June 4.
An employee at the home told police that she had cared for Wells for two years, and that the woman was "very incapacitated physically." Police said they had difficulty talking to the woman.
Although Knecht declined to comment on the incident, she said that "Overall, I think we give good care at the home."
by CNB