Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-08
The Buh Case.

Editor Of The Watertovn Republican:
10 your account OF the death of Mr..
Bulbs daughter, am not correctly re-
ported therein, and as the matter has
created considerable excitement, news
paper comments, and published letters,
ETC., [ deem it proper to explain fully
my connection with the case.
The facts are these: Monday morn
ing of last week M. Bub called
upon me to 90 with him to his house to
see bis daughter who had been pro-
nounced dead, and that they, the Bulbs,
did not think she was dead | asked him
who had been his physician in the case;
he replied, CDR. Wbyte." l said he is the
one for you to call in now; his reply was,
that he had him yesterday, and he only
laughed at them, and he did not want
him again. | told him | did not like to go,
bu, be insisted, and l reluctantly went
with him. [ was surprised 10 see the life
like expression, add [ examined her as
closely as | could in her then laid out
condition in the coffin, and told them 1
thought her certainly dead. Mr.. Bub
asked me if | thought her dead when she
was pronounced so at first. | told him
that thought that under the circum-
stances if she had been my patient, |
should have ordered her kept in a warm
room, and after a few hours, if the llfe-like
expression on her face continued, it would
have been my duty to myself and them
to have had her case investigated, and 90
one in my opinion, should have been
more ready to have done so than her ply
siciap Superstition to the contrary, and
he bad ample opportunity to do so the
day before the burial, when he was called
there. Would be not have been doing his
duty, and manifesting at the same time a
proper regard for the bereaved family
and himself to have done so? | deny ever
saying to any one that she was not dead
but did say that | thought there was great
haste, that red lips and flushed or rose
colored cheeks were not usually signs of
death. and that the parents should have
kept her in warm place, and summoned
their doctor, with one or more in counsel
Mr. Bub told me when there on Monday,
that they had tried the looking glass test
by placing the glass close to her mouth,
ard that it gathered moisture by her
breathing upon it. This was witnessed
by dozen people and on several different
occasions.
What connection | have had with the
case, and what l have said to the Bub
family, which have fully stated above,
and that family | think will verify my
statements, was not said in malice, or with
the intention of injuring anyone, but that
it may have been ignorance on my part, I
will leave that to the public tc Judge, q
refer to DR.. Whyte's letter in Gazette of
last Friday.) | have practiced my pro-
fession in this city and vicinity day and
night, for forty years and have no reason
to complain as to my success and patron
age. | expect to end my LIES work here,
and if the public meet out the reproba-
ton, which he (Whyte in his letter pub
lished in Gazette) says deserve, | shall
have to stand it, and | think [ can.
DR.. Whyte refers to the superstition Of
the Germans, and would have it appear
that what [ have said would only bel p to
increase it. | have lived among the Ger
man people more years than he, and have
yet to learn that they are any more super
stitious than Scotchmen or any one else.
Respectfully,
M. n. BARBER, M. D.