Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-06
PROSECUTING THE DOCTORS.


Fshius Detendanis' Names FROM Tomb
stones.
Alderman b. F. Rowe, at 8 o'clock last
sye1i1g.QtVhssr the scontinued case OF
n.S.H. Rst3g& prosecuted BY J.Kahh
SaydG. f9 f1lu1s u register befose No
vember 25. At u previous hearing LIS
trict Attorney Davis asked for cOntinu-
ance, as he said the commonwealth had not
"gOt the right witnesses to make it out.
Davis was not present last evening; no
other Witnesses were called, but Snyder
asked that defendant be bound over.
COv0scl for tie defense asked that IL Q
case bc dismissed, as the prosecution hal
admitted a. the asst meeting that they b: d
not made, out q. case, and 10 additional
testimony wss Tered nOW. The alder
nlAn said he wis IOing to return it.
Ceansel said that if 1he tefenso had been
notified befdle tie hearing that it had
been agreed in advance between prOsecu-
tor and alderman to return tho case, tho
time and trouble Of hearing might
have been avoided. Defendant was held
ID his own recognizance for 500 to an
swer ut the January sessions.
Deputy PrOthOnOtary Edwards says he
never told Mr. Howard, the Millersville
cOnfectiOner. that Tom. Davis wrote
statement" for persons to file with
their registration. Mr.. Edwards says hc
told him that Alderman Barr used the best
form that came into the office.
Prosecuting . Dead Man.
Ope of oarmost esteemedE and reliable
cOntsibutOrss furnishes tho following
/" Among The names Of 4the prosecuted
non registered doctors, We noticed
the name of A. p. CARRIER, Of Mountville.
Docs the intelligent prosecutor ever read
tho newspapers lie is, perhaps. not re-
spOnsible for not knowing that DR.. Garbcr
never practised medicine in Lancaster
county, and for seven years not in Penn
sylvania and that his residence during
that period has chiefly been in Florida
But, IL he reads the newspapers Of the
county, he must be held responsible for not
knowing that DR.. CARRIER returned from
Florida last June, died at Repova, in Au-
gust. and was buried in Mountville = few
have practiscd in the few weeks he resided
in Pennsylvania before his death, must
have been in his own case, and for this
the consciensiOus CHAMPION Of law and
order, subjects him to post mortem pro-
secutiOn. DR.. G. perhaps ought to be fined
one hundred dollars and costs, for pre-
suming to die before this "tright partic-
ticular star" in tie moral galaxy Of Lam
county could realize his hard earned and
much coveted prosecution fees.
1t is said that rare invoice of mummes
from the tOmbs of Thebes has just been
received at Rochester, New York. Pei
haps some amongst them may have been
doctors. There may be "sOmething" in
this case or rather in these "cases," for
the questions of jurisdiction aud accOunta-
bility are mere triiles, after an individual
is dead. In any event thsy ought to be
looked into, but some of them might get
into tho museums or our good old COM
munity in violence Of law. and to tho great
detrimcnt Of our revenues, and to the pc
cuniary interests of our disinterested im-
pecunious citizen. Perhaps it might be
we'll too to scan the tombstOEes Of the
state. The business 0f;thc venders OF
maple sugar and hOarhcund esn6y might
he profitably looked into afterwards.
Since this moral Hercules has commenced
the cleaning of the Augean stables he
ought TO make a "clean sweep" of it. 1t
would be very unsafe just now to prescribe
fish oil for hog cholera, for fear of being
"tuck up' for it. 1t might, however, be
good for the pig. vi course, all who are
amenable to law should be Obedient to
law, but it seems to US there should be
some discrimination b;twecn the living
and the dead-bctween the doctor aud tho
ex-doctOr- bet seen the d.: 'lomaed prOies
siOnal and tho dispenser Of gum drops
and hozrhOnnd candy"