The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-22
OR A BROKEN JAW.
/ Woman's Big Damage Suit
Against Her Dentist.
= SAYS SHE'S 4 BLAckMAiLER.
...ssss Charges by Both Partiss-Cssh.
ter Atkins Arrested six Times
Nore-The Bfotter.

ldsh shane Yesterday sued DIR. w. e.
Y cavne, q weli-known dentist Of this
- for $3.50 damages by malpractice,
s..kine charges of tine most sensational
.s.rseser against his professional charac-
- According to the complaint filed in
3 ~ superior court Miss Shane went to DR..
f1yae's Offices in the Occidental block on
March 10, 1883. suffering from terrible
,,othacne. The dentist made an examina-
ssou Of the affected tooth and then fiiled
~ p1tIent's mouth with raw chloroform
a proceeded to dig the tooth out by the
cots. In so doing, she says, he broke tho
AR lower Jaw and the chiorosorrn he
I rsd burned the patients mouth terribly.
4 ! consequence she was sick for weeks.
IRE membrane lining her mouth was 90
harmed that 1t fell away. leaving large raw
! aatcbes. while the broken Jaw suppurated
ga small pieces of bone worked through
lie gum for days before it finally healed.
ehe was con fined TO her bed constantly for
4 lsys under physicians care, her hair fell
I sut and she was insane at times. During
hsr illness she was forced to take all nour-
khmens in liquid form. On the ground of
III these allegations she sues for $500, the
AMOUNT she alleges she paid out TO her
phys!cians. and 5000 damages to her
heslsh and business.
DR.. Coyne said of the case last night to
fosT-isrELLfGEscER reporter that il was
% attempt ct blackmaii Of the lowest de-
seription and that Miss Shane was the
teol of other parties.
"0n March II" he said, "a woman was
Brought to my Office by DR.. Bellinger,
hsad physician of the German Remedy
Institute at Portland. Calling me aside
be said, Here is patient: do what you
can for her, From the manner Ia which
he said IL, | knew that the woman was
poor and tina. there was not a cent to be
gained by treating her. Yet, as Mr.. Bel
linger's friend, concluded to do my best.
examined the woman mouth. The
small eye tooth. a mere root il was, on the
right lower jaw. was in q terrible condi-
lion. An abcess vas forming and as soon
y looked at it / knew that nothing
souid be done. The woman was in o ter
rihle state. as thought then from pain.
but ss am now informed from the use of
d-ugs, and was SO nervous that l could
scarcely make the examination. l took
eocosine. though, and moro for the pur-
pose OF making her think was going TO
stop the pain than for anything else, APP
piled it TO the tooth. As expected, the
eject was not perceptible. Then pulled
the root. using all possible care. That is
AL that happened in my Office that day.
IL found the inside of the woman's
mouth burned by the inhalation and swat
loving Of chloroform until Ii was posi-
ilvely raw and could not be touched with
eat causing exquisite agony. am now
iosd that Miss Shane has been under treat
ment both before and since that time for
The chloroform habit and other drug
habits ct the German Remedy institute, in
uAich her father, a wealthy Portland man.
y . stockh holder. This explains to me the
sOndition of her mouth and the lack Of
esect Of the cocaine.
II know very little about what she did
slter she left the office. but suppose from
her weakened constitution the cavity left
by the extraction Of the tooth did not heal
q IL should have, but il Is most ridiculous
assertion that the jaw was broken. DR..
Merkeil, the head ply stefan of the institute
Ihaye mentioned In this city, knows the
woman; has treated her for the chloro-
form habit, and will corroborate all have
said.
II know no more about Miss Shane than
have told you. She Is about . years
old. think. but l cannot say what
The business she speaks of Ia.
think she is the tool of designing persons.
understand that she has found out. God
knows where. that my wife has a little
property. What a shame ii Is that man
who is poor and can barely make living
In this town has to get attorneys To defend
such suit for him. cannot say whether
will DO so IL aeenx fidicuiniIsn