The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-21
TORTURED BY A CHARATAN.
Iron Band Fastened on a Blind
Child'S Head.
A QUACK DOCTORS REMEDY
SufferiDgs of Poor Little Annie
Fienglass Under the Prescription
of a Mountebank- Application Of a
Garrote-Iron Embedded in Flesh.
Physician Now Under Arrest.

New York. Aug IA case has just been
revealed here in which a quack doctor,
who has teen attending a little child
suffering with water on the brain and Il
tursor in its head, actually applied
modern Improvement on the Spanish in
s.tun,ent OF torture-thc garrote-on the
sufferer
Siegfried Reubel, a Spanish american,
il the name OF the soi-oisant physician,
and tie poor little tortured victim is
Annie Fieuglass, who is blind
Under the euise of a doctor, the fiend
went his way through the world and did
harm IN the great name of humanity,
hc practiccd his quackery upon the poor
and unforl innate in the district suffering
from his presence
He toUk the delicate little girl, already
hair was through the Valley ofthe Shadow
OF Death, put a great iron band on .rr
head, attached thumbscrews to il so thas
the torture might be made more exquisite
and then went his way, sneaking out II
the house, with words OF instruction Slid
derii.g from his mouth. The mother
love for the little cripple standing out
bright, tortured the chiId for two long,
weary days
The quack never made another appear
Snce at the bedside. lie knew well what
he had done. lie had conceived the tor
ture He left the house, knowing that
were his instructions carried out the death
Of the little woman was but matter of 4
few daya.
So ih tie poor dwelling at No. 71S
Flushing avenue, Williamsburg, stretched
"ut OF. ats bed of pain, lay the child.
THEN the iron bands Were applied. And
the father, breathing a prayer tina: the
Cries OF his CHILD might not be LAID UP
against him, tightened the screws anu sat
down 20 watch at the bedside For two
days he sat there, relieved at times by re
woman, who shared with him the RESPONSE
hIiity q the girls life.
Not for one momentin the long forty light
hours did the look OF agony leave the girls
face. She did not sleep in all that time. u er
means were lnceSsant. Feebly the little
hands fought the band weighing Gown heI
tired head.
The father and mother saw the iron eat
slowly into the delicate flesh. Where the
thuInbscrews were, appeared on the obver.a1
SIDE two great red welts. This spread, AMI
al last the wholeleft side OF the girls face
was iuf.amed aId discoIored to an angry
looking crimson. They saw, too, she
flesh slowly lap over the edges of tie
band, creeping over the top and resting
on The outside of the iron. IL looked Ike
the flesh of a dead person.
They could stand it no longer. The faith
er koScned the thumb screws and tried 70
tear off this modern garrote. II would not
oon'e. It was fairly imieddcd in the flesh.
They Lad 40 call in the neighbors and soak
tie poor manglel head in warm water, and
even then the pain was 50 great when one
touched heI head that they had TO admin
istei OIistes in order that she might he In
sensible to the pain when the instrument
was pred off.
Even all this did not open the eyes of
the narPntS. They thought the quack had
been sincere in nis treatment. Had he no.
SAID that lie wanted no pay, that the cure
would be enough. If the news of IT were
scattered through the land to fill his
pockets with gold?
The unexpected then happened. The
doctor" presented a bill. II was for
$3.50. The father tore ii up. Another
caIne. this time for S25.
Slowly the eyes of the father were
opened. He strode around to the house
OF the doctor, at No 543 Flushing avenue.
and bad he found Ruebel at home would
surely have killed him.
AS il was, he met the brother of tie
girl whom Ruebel had married. The fan.-
lily of 'he girl had never gotten oyer the
marriage.
TEey had a true estimate of Ruebel. They
lad heard of his dealings with the poJr
of the vicinity. The brother was bit
waiting for an opportunity TO get his sis
ter away fiom the quack. To the girl S
brother. Henry Breithart, Feinglass toId
Lis story. Together they went to the Lee
Avenue police court.
OF the agony in the case. but little was
said to Justice Teale. Theysimply made the
charge that Siegfred Ruebel of No. SAB
r lushing avenue, was practicing Medicine
without diploma.
When his case came upin court Thursday
he tried TO throw himself on the mercy of
the court. They laughed at him, and lie
was sent to Raymond street Jail. His da Of
reckoning with earthly tribunals has not
beea fixed.