The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-03
THE CASE INVESTIGATE BY
A GLOBE REPORTER.
rHE FACrs FULLY VERIFIED.
One Of the Most Remarkable Cases Oh
Record.
A Ran Pronounced by Eminent PLY 81
clans Perm anentiy Disabled Fully
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Chico K
for 81, 900 Paid by Royal Tenn
plars of Temperance for
Total Disability Hun
dreds of sitors.

TORONTO DAILY GLOBE, July 20 This
is an age of doubt; especially in regard to
cures by patent medicines, and not without
reason, for too often have the sick and their
near and dear loved ones been deceived by
highly recommended nostrpms that were
swallowed to be of less avail than as much
water. The old, old fable of the boy and
the wolf applies also too frequently to many
of the specific connections for curing the ills.
that flesh is heir to; and when a real cure is
effected by a genuine remedy those who
might be benenfted fight shy of it saying 1T
was cure, cure SO often before that | won't
try it," When such a state of affairs exists
it is advisable that assurance should be made
douly sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and almost
miraculous cure was made known TO Canad-
ians through the medium of the Hamilton
newspapers. 1t was stated that Mr.. John
Marshall, a well-known resident OF Hamil-
ton. by the aid of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, had been snatched from the
very Jaws of death, placed upon his teet and
enabled to mingle with his fellow citizens
with more than renewed health and strength
and even brighter spirits than he had ex-
perienced for years before. This remark
able statement naturally excited the wonder
of almost a continent.) Some believed, most
people doubted, although the facts were
placed so clearly as to ward off the slightest
suupicion of fraud. To investigate the very
extraordinary cure and place before the
people of Canada and the United States
verifcation or otherwise of it was the special
mission of a GLOBE reporter a few days ago.
A close inquiry into the circumstances first
showed that Mr.. John Marshall, whose resi-
dence is 25 Little William street, in the north
east portion of the city, while employed as
foreman for the Canadian Oil Company, FIVE
years ago, he fell upon the edge of an oil vat
and hurt his back. Thinking little of the
| affair. Mr.. Marshall continued to work on,
but after a few months he became ill, grad
ually got worse, and in August, four years
ago, became stricken with the dread disease,
locomotor ataxy-a disease attacking the
nerves and rendering that portion of the
| system attacked perfectly helpless, pro
claimed by the physicians to be incurable
which left him from the waist downwards
without feeling and utterly unable to move
| his lower limbs. All he was able to do was
to raise himself by the aid of sticks and
| crutches and drag himself around the house
! and occasionally to the corner of the street
| on fine days. His legs were without feeling,
| pins and even knives were stuck into them
without the sick man experiencing any in
| convenience. He could take a walking stick
! and beat his legs until the blows r~eseunded
| through the house and yet he felt nothing.
| During all these years of tortre Mr.. Mar
| shall consulted every doctor of ability in the
| city; tried every form Of treatment and took
almost every kind of patent medicine, but
without receiving one title of relief. The
agony was frequently 50 intense that he was
| obliged to take morphine pills in order to
receive a reasonable amount of sleep.
AS the months and years passed by, al
| though the doctors continued to treat him
in various ways, they plainly told the SUI
| fering man that he could not get better, the
disease was set down in the works of special
list as incurable. The doomed man was a
member of the United Empire Council No.
100, Royal Templars of Temperance, and
| under the discouraging circumstances he
thought it advisable to apply for the pay
ment of the total disability claim Q S1,e0o
| allowed by the order on its insurance policy.
Application was accordingly made, but be-
| fore the claim was granted the patient had
| to offer conclusive proof of his total disabil-
| ity to the chief examiner, and Mr.. Marshall
was sent to Toronto for a special electrical
| treatment. 1t proved no more successful
| than the others that had preceded 1t, and q