The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-04-13
THE HAMILTON MIRACLE.
THE CASE INVESTIGATED BY A GLOBE
REPORTER.
THE FACTS FULLY VERIFIED. :.
One Of the Most Remarkable Cases on
Record.

A Man Pronounced by Eminent Physl-
CLANS Permanently Disabled Fully
Recovers-F Facsimile Of the Check
for 81 900 Paid by Royal Tenn
plars of Temperance for
Total Disability = Humid
reds OF Visitors.
Toronto Daily Globe, July 60.
This is On nge of doubt; especially in
regard to cures by patent medicines, and
not without reason, for too cften have the
sick and their near and dear loved ones
been deceived by highly recommended
nostrums that were swallowed to be of
less avail than as much water. The old,
old fable OF the boy ano The wolf applies
also too frequently to many of tho spe~
ciflc concoctions fo- curing the ills that
flesh is heir to; and when real euro is
effected by q genuine remedy those who
might be benefited fight shy of it, saying,
"it was 'cure, cure,' 30 often before that
won't try it.n When such state of affairs
exists IL is advisable that assurance should
be inside doubly sure.
A few weeks ago marvellous and al
most miraculous cure was made known to
Canadians through the medium of the
Hamilton newspapers. II was stated that
Mr.. John Marshall,a we'll known resident
OF 1bmlltO1, Dy tuo tlu OI Drs Wlllann
Pink Pills for Pale People, had been
snatched from the very jaws of death,
placed up IN his feet and enabled to min
gle with his fellow citizens with moro than
renewed health and strength and even
brighter spirits than he had experienced
for years before, This remark'
able statement naturally excited the wons
der OF almost a continent. Some believed,
most people doubted, although the facts
were placed so clearly an TO ward off the
slightest suspicion of fraud. To invests
gate the very extraordinary cure and
place before the people OF Canada and the
United States verif1cation or otherwise of
IL WAS the special mission of a Globe res
porter few days ago.
A close inquiry into the circumstances
first showed that Mr.. John Marshall,
whose residence 10 % Little William street,
In the northeast portion of the city, while
employed as foreman for the Canadian
Oil Company, five years ago, fell upon the
edge OF an oil vat and hurt bis back.
Thinking little of the affair, Mr.. Marshall
continued to work on, but after few
months he became i'll, gradually got
worse, and in August. four years ago,
became stricken with the dread disease,
locomotor ataxy-a disease attaching the
nerves and rendering that portion of the
system attacked perfectly helpless, pros
claimed by the physicians TO be incurable
which left him from the waist down.
wards without feeling and literally un-
able 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 fiue days. His legs
were without feeling. pins and even
knives were stuck into them without the
eick man experiencing any Inconvenience.
He could take a walking stick ard beat
his legs until the blows resounded through
the house and yet he felt nothing. During
all these years of torture Mr.. Marshall
consulted every doctor of ability in the
city; tried every form of treatment and
took almost every kind of patent medii
cine, but without receiving one little OF
relief. Tbs agony was frequently so in
tense that he was obliged to take NOR
phine pills in order to receive reason
able amount of sleep.
As the months and years passed by,
although the doctors continued to treat
him In various ways, they plainly told the
suffering man that he could not get better,
the disease was set down in the works of
specialists as incurable. The doomed
man was member of the United Empire
Council, No. 100. Royal Tempiars of Tenn
perance, and under the discournging cirt
cumstances he thought il advisable to
apply for the payment OF the total disa.
bility claim of 81 900 allowed by the order
on its insurance policy. Application was
accordingly made, but before the claim
was granted the patient had TO offer con-
elusive proof of bis total disability to the
chief examiner, and Mr.. Marshall was sent