The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-03
CAUSED BY A WART
BIG DAMAGE SUIT NOW GOING ON
In DISTRICT COURT.

and it is Alleged That He Poisoned
Sans Blood With Some Foreign Sub
stance That Did Not Agree With 1t
Ten Doctors Testified and Used the Most
Gorgeous and Pyrotecnic Language
Deceased wart was Ever Honored With
The celebrated wart case Of Samuel
r. Wood against DR.. Albright took up
the entire attention of the learned
Judge of the district court yesterday.
When the judge made up the roper
toir of his court at the beginning Of
the term he assigned the famous wart
case for yesterday.
The first thing done was to procure
q jury and this was no small rem IN
the case. The lawyers had no means
of knowing whether a juryman had
ever a wart or not and fact Of this
kind had an important bearing in the
issue. After some close questioning a
Jury was finally secured whose faces
Indicated that they were competent to
sit in judgment on a common every
day wart-
Then able and learned physicians sat
around the court room waiting to be
called upon 10 tell what they knew
Rbcut warts in general and the walt
Of Mr.. Samuel Wood in particular.
The case, as stated, is that Of Samuel
r. Wood against DIR. Albright. On one
bright summer day when Dr.Albright's
guiding star was in i'll humor he ran
against Mr.. Wood and propounded the
usual question ANY corns today"
That is DR.. Albright's specially. He is
a corn physician and surgeon and is
reputed to be a dandy at his profession.
His residence is at Emporia but he
spends a greater part of the year In
Wichita owing TO 1t being a wider and
more extensive corn field. Warts are
not his specially, but they being half
brothers to corns he occasionally dab
bles in them. Now, then, on this par
ticular day Samuel r Wood did not
have any corr ripe for cutting but he
had a blooming wart on his thumb that
was a source OF great annoyance to
him DR.. Albright held an ante NOR
tem examina ton of the wart and de-
cided that IL ought to be executed at
once He and Mr.. Wood struck a deal
and for the small sum Of two bits the
doctor agreed to remove the wart for
ever and a day. He did so and came
within an ace Of removing Mr.. Wood
also.
Shortly after the wart was dead and
buried Mr.. Woods thumb began to
swell up until he thought IL had the
dropsey. From the thumb the swelling
extended to the arm and finally all over
his body. Grave and learned doctors
examined him and pronounced 1t a
case Of blood poisoning. For many
weary days and weeks Mr.. Wood dwelt
on the ragged edge Of the grave, hang
ing on the tender thread of a life that
was continually in danger OF swapping.
Finally the turning point came ad Mr..
Wood got well The next time he con-
suited anybody about the Wart he went
10 Amidon & Conley, the lawyers, and
spoke 10 them. The result of this was
that DR.. Albright was sued for dam
ages TO the amount of S10,240. When
DR.. Albright was served with the pa
pers in this suit he came within an ace
of dropping dead. 1t was the severest
shock he had ever received in his long
dealing with the toes of men and wom-
en- He couldn't figure out enough
warts in the United States and Canada
to pay that amount of damages and he
decided to fight the case until he would
fall in the last ditch.
erybody has seen him. He has been
seen in every town in southern, central
and western Kansas for sixteen or sew
enteen years. In the early days he
used TO wear pair of shoes that were
each about two feet long and about
fifteen inches wide. He walked about
with these terrible shoes and used
them as detectives for corns. His Gus
tom was to walk I'D close to a man or
woman and if they had corns they
would show signs Of nervousness. He
then spoke to them concerning their
troubles. In recent years he openly in
suits people on the street, in the stores,
In hotel corridors and other public pla-
ces by boldly asking them whether they
acknowledged the corn. The doctor
wears a plug hat of the vintage of
1888 and was never known to have
more than one hat Besides that he is
known as the smileless man. He has
never been known TO laugh. His life
seems to be made up of the pains and
agonies of his innumerable patrons.
Some people regard him as a humorist
because he does not laugh. At one
time he was reputed TO be worth about
$4,000 but of late years his fortune
uas the reputation OF being very much
contracted on account Of somebody
pulling his leg in a real estate transac-
ton.
The doctor has only one grand pas
sion and that is TO cut corns. The
whole world may call him a miser, a
bore OF horsethief and it would not
trouble him a bit, but let man try
10 blacken his character and reputs-
tion as a corn doctor and he is liable
to get a fight on his hands.
Now, then, a corn is a pretty small
thing, but the damages asked are not
so small and there was such an array
of learned physicians on the witness
stand that one would imagine Mr..
Wood and all his relatives had been
butchered by this same DR.. Albright.
These physicians gave some very in
teresting testimony which, in the COM
poSite was as follows:
The removal of Mr.. Woods wart
caused a spontaneous ieXicoraenia of
the toxaenia which developed into
ichoraemia septaemla of the phlibitis.
From the phlibitis ii extended
through the Arteries 10 the cholamia
Rnd cholesteraemia and the next thing
seen OF it was in the shape of myelop-
lakes cornification Of the valvular leu
coythemia.
This kind of evidence was highly en-
pertaining and instructive 10 the law
yers VINO, OF course, understood every
word OF Il ana were 50 delighted that
Sam Amidon provoked more of vt by a
little innocent question. He nodded his