Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-06
MORRIS ADLER SINKING.
Nervous Twitchings Indicate Tetauus-
The Physicians Hastily Summoned.

There was hurrying Of messengers from the
Adler house shortly sitter / o'clock this after.
noon and the commotion visible to the passer
by showed that there was some change
change for the worse--in the condition of
Morris Adler
The telephone was called into service, and as
fast as the sound-waves could convey the in
formation, DR.. ]. w. Bayne was told that his
presence was needed immediately at the bed
side Of the stricken young man. In the
meantime DR.. Wagner, who.is always with the
patient, did all he could to stop the nervous
twitching which shook Adler's frame. DIR.
Baynes black horse never pulled buggy
much more rapidly than he did after the doc
tor got in at his own door, and it was only a
few minutes before the destination was reached
by that time the spasmodic action
AN uNFAILIYa SYMPTOM OF rETANUs
had become more frequent and more violent
Sensation to such pain as accompanies it
has come back to the wasted, paralized
body of the victim of Wards pistol
Motion also refuses to return save when
commanded by the power of that disease which
must speedily bring the end. Hypodermic in
jections OF morphia and atropia were admins
tered and the spasms at once were modified.
Their force was lessened and they were less
frequent. Temperature and respiration had
not changed, but the pulse was much weaker.
WHAT DIR. BAYNE SAYS.
To STAR reporter DIR. Bayne said: ~ regard
the symptoms now prevalent as unfavorable
indications; Indications which point, think,
to an early termination. There is nothing that
leads me to look for immediate dissolution"
At the regular morning consultation the doc
tors found the patients condition to be practi-
caliy unchanged His temperature was not so
high as yesterday, the clinical thermometer
registering 100 degrees. Respiration was easy
ct "a, but the pulse, which was at 80,
was decidedly weak. 1t was very evident that
Adler had at last come to full sense Of
realization 80 far as his condition was con-
cerned for he displayed less interest than
may partly be ascribed to the morphia which
it has been found necessary to give him to
Danish pain and to give him necessary rest,
but that the change in his demeanor is
largely due to a knowledge Of things as they
are is beyond question.
HERoIsM AND MENTAL STRENGTH.
But few people outside Of the Adler house
hold and the attending physicians have realized
the heroism and the mental strength displayed
by the now dying man. For eighteen days he
has lain in his bed, living head on a
a lump OF senseless clay. Incapable Of motion
SO far as his own volition has been concerned
and moving and feeling only when in the
throes of pain, he has borne his sufferings with
out murmer or complaint While those
around him have been sad and depressed
he has been as cheerful and happy as any man
possibly could be under the circumstan noes: he
saw the silver lining in death-laden clouds that
threatened to break over his head. To-day,
for the first time in all this long period
of suffering helplessness, he is inclined to be
respondent, and the probabilities all point to
the dissolution which will come in at most a
few days-probably in few hours. Another
point of interest is the
UTTER ABSENCE OF vINDIcTIvE FEELING.
From the time Of the shooting Adler has al
ways held that he was the wronged man--that
Ward shot without provocation or cause-but
he has never uttered single word which could
be construed into desire for retaliation.