New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-29
Another Word from DIR. WithereII.

To the Editor Q Inc TioV"e
60 I sent Won a communication which was published
- paner of Wednesday intended to correct a statement
81 yonrs in the Tribune OF the eth inst in refeance oths
late deaths at the City frison walch reflected on me
my Professionally capaciy
NV Motive in writing to clear my professional char
octe from the imputaton charged and correct any wrong
ION which your statement may have endered
i lind of the Public, and more particular in the estims
,;on of those with whom am more immediately connected
nv Indeavour thus to exonerate myself you haven
90 Editorial Article of the same date attacked me my
pate "a well as Professional character, in gross and
nnwaranable manner the nuendo and slus thrown
I;, no meaning but that of low, and personal nvecive
n"d Juperation Ny Professional Abilities aud
bberto have not been impugned and your low abuse;
viii not trust injure Either -
lat Sir If YOU have principle you will retract your
: Nod and misquotatiOns of my Communication; And
Sond az a righfthat you retract in as fall and ample
= ,r.nner rs YOU have made Public
"" Your most Obedient,
joins WIrHERELL
H. Jouy W,TuERELL cannot take a lesson even in
.ho simnIest elements of common sense. Having con-
o,od himself by his own gratuitous statement Of an
:v,;cable and really criminal neglect of duty, he nov
oyoaev turns upon us for briefly though earnestly ex
80; his cuIpability lie does not scruple TO accuse
r. of law and personal abuse, asehood and msrepresen
,ton. for all of which he imperatiyely demands the
hahn of apology and retracton at our hands. His let
er treating of these points, graces another column Of
Ills poper and in printing it we have taken care that no
clare hand should mar by impertnent corrections the
nroiual eegan, Of its composition
IIon have we done wroncto DIR. witherelli Up to
lost Monday We had lived in profound Inconsistencies
Of b existence his name had perhaps been printed in
o columns but never in connection with the victims at
tho Torubs Two other Doctors had been mentioned in
o reno,t of that matter and to them we cursOrly
frred Int not by name, as having declared that the
,,o, aod from intemperance. Hereupon DR. Wtherell.
a-ontl NOT satisfied to be entirely omitted from tho
a;o,ssion comes forward inform us that he had
;red most norton of the dead bodies that he had
bop become satisfied that the man had been killed by
bonc acid gas and that the reason he did not say 80
70 the Coroner's Jury was that ne ~as not asked On
tbe statement of that fact, volunteered by himself we
commented with some severity though with less than
aoorrod peryert it we could not, and what he means
nv flsebood and misrepresentation 1t difficult 70 un
derstand We alleged just what he had told US, and
notb;no more And as for retracting any utterance
honest INDIGNATION at medical man who would peru tno
lives Of helpless prisoners, rather than reveal smP"
fact which he had not been circumstantially asked
reveal We must beg to decline and without furtner AZ
ment TO submit the to the verdict Of the pubic
r. is singular that physician who could be 90 TIME
o,a ,rrotious before Coroner should be so obstreP
srons in the columns of public journal. IL Is hnsa
.r that the man who dared not say that another hsa
been poisoned, though he knew it, but chose in'e'e
the more delicate phrase that he had died byeo"gs's
ofhs BRAIN should the painest language with ',e.
nont and frapkness as Dr. Witherel this morning d.
r,avs in our columns We fear, however, that no
equally unfortunate in both cases and that he vess
tars done well to hold up his head and speak loud saa
,lar in the first instance it would have been equally
hi, advantage to have been as silent as the grave W.
canond