The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-27
Woman Said to Be Living After
Being Embalmed.
Is M'INTYRE INSANE2
A Topeka Doctor Who Knew
Him,
SlysMcIntyre Did NOtAppear to
Be Sane.

DR. Ed. r. Mcintyre, formerly Of To-
peka, is under arrest at Chicago, as stated
in an article published Saturday, on COM
plant Of tile coroner Of Cook county,
charged with malpractice, and it looks
very much as though he will get a life
sentence to the penitentiary. The St
Louis Chronicle contains the following
dispatch in regard to the matter:
CHICAGO. Aug. 25.-Dr- F. K Mcintyre. of
case oi inaIpracs.ce. on Friday he attended a
woman named Mrs El-zabeth J. aynond IN
Ausn street. lhe arrest IS The result OF the
At tne birlil 81 two girls yesterday afternoon
She WAS attended by the PRISONER Thomas +.
fofiri six "a Ion. of blood ID recer-ac.es and
he put a ga4Ou OF emDam ng Il Il IA wLlat he
supposed 70 De -ie Idessss D0ly Of the ino-iIer-
a1ter leaVlng. he was nOlIled tnaI she
alive, and re.uIliiug. found he bOuy sIiI4 bleed
the protests of DR.. McIntsre. lie found the
u-erus mad leen taken our and sixteen inches II
he 1e.endant's steel ring was fouad in the
unlor.u.dte wOUan's body lie said he took
the Uterus nome ~i.n hlin, out gave no explansi-
Wine he Wa operating on the dead woman
he lAlu.ed- lie came here from lopeka e.gnC
months ago lie c.tine 10 attend the woman De
cause hls vile n.4rseI her the house pre-
shor. me lgo. tJllss 81 iihe twins lied.
DR.. Mclntyre's Topeka record seems
TO have been such that his acquaintauce5
here are not in the least surprised at the
turn affairs have AIKEN
A physician who Was very well ac-
quaauted with him during the eight or
mlue years hs was here, said of the case
this morning:
"9lcIutyrs is a man of whom 1 would
say Jhat IL would De much better for all
concerned, Iticlu uI4ug himself, II lie were
ia un asylum fOr the feeble minded
rather than an the practice OF ned3cs4e.
4 knew Of several O1 Ills bad breaks mere,
some times huvln- been j witness 10 them
myself. lie came mere eight or ten Years
ago from RJssviiie. Kansas. aud entered
the practice Of medicine as be-
gluner. / believe the man WAS really
insane. l know that he was epileptlc,
ani to my knowledge he has several
times fallen III tit III the midst of an
operation, az lie did in this one.
''1e was not tit man to intrust in any
operation. In the case of his brOther's
mur4er At Clay Center some years ago,
lie stood and watched the proceedings of
tne pJs.-m0rtem examination, and
laughed aud giggled ami made facetlous
remarks All through IL 1t was positively
horrible. The man wasn't sane.
'- his is not he first case Of malprac-
tlce he has been into. he was threaten
ed with suits several times while in To-
peka, but the fact that he was poor
man. and there could be no hope of Sc
curing anything 10 the plaintiff in the
way Of damages, saved him.
that he must have gone completely
insane during the operation and been
seized with insane desire to do some
thing terrible"
Mclnlyrs's wife is also a physician
They had Office in Topeka last year
az I'll Kansas avenue, but did not DO
great deal or business lie went to chi
cagJ last summer and finally secured a
position there as professor of nervous
discusses ia the National Medical College.
He attended Mrs. Raymond because his
wife had nursed her in the house previ-
ously. Mcintyre is about forty years OF
age.
Physicians say there must be some
mistake in the statement that the woman
lost six gallons of blood and was still
alive.
1T would be impossible" said one,
"that any person cauld lose that amount
OF blood, for the very good reason that
the largest persons d1 not have over three.
Eighteen pounds Of the average body
is supposed TO be blood 1t would be
very natural, too, that she should bleed
aftez she was dead. and even if she had
not been dead before the injection of the
gallon of embalming fluid, which is rank
poison, shs would he in less than one
minute after