The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-07
YRS GREESBERG REJECTS HER
DYING HUSBANDS PLEA.

she Says That He Wants Her and the baby TO
60 Out OF the world when re Docs. or Just
Before. and That sc Holds IL . True wires
~Duty-They Discuss Il Together for Weeks.
To-day Mrs. Isaac Greenberk will leave her
home In Bridgeport. Conn. and her con sump-
tive husband. who, she says. believes that she
should die because he Is about to die. Mrs.
Greenberg will leave her husband alone in the
scsniily furnished apartments on the ground
notr Of the tenement. % Elm street. where
the couple have lived ever since they settled In
bridgeport. four months ago. Then tho
Board OF Health will take charge of him.
BY thus deserving him the woman will solvo
the problem that has puzzled tho Connecticut
authorities for several weeks past. Greenbcre
Is dying OF consum ptlon. and half q dozen doc
tors have pronounced his cass hopeless. His
wife is n cood-looSing woman, "a years old.
She says that her husband. knowing that he
can live only a few weeks. believes that she
should not live longer than that period.
"An husbands and wives should die fogeth-
err" Is the Argument he puts forward, accord
ing To her story. III they don't love each
other they should separate Immediately. II
hey do love each other they should live togeth-
er and die together" This is wat Mrs. Green.
berg says her husband has stated.
According to his ideas. II Mrs. Greenbsrr',
story Is correct, a man who loves a woman
should commit suicide In case the woman dies.
Or In case OF the husbands death the wife
should either take her own life or let some ono
else take It. Mrs. Greenbcrg sa Us that her
husband did not look upon the matter in that
Light when he was a healthy man.
IF he did" said she to q Sun reporter. II
would be perfectly-willine to die with him.
hoIc OF saving his life that he wants me TO die.
100. some weeks ago we sat down together TO
menting on It's sickiy appearance. lie re-
marked that the baby had consumption. and
can't live more than u month.' he
said. Then ne told m. that / might live eight
himself. he said. could not survive the month
OF March. Then he asked me II | still loved
said. I oa ssia i, ! a dd; WITH Thaf h, SsinG w he case; he
use OF n few more. weeks Of life. he said. mean
Ing that could lie only a few more weeks
and give the baby a dose ST the same time. II
was suffering with I said. /
.. we'll let nature decide our fate.
Are you willing n die with me?' he asked.
grew WEAKER his disinclination to leave me be-
hind Tres greater He pleaded with me to
brew would mink Of su.h .n a e nS 0f'h0 Ths, ne 10
begged mo 70 allow him to be responsible. say
Ing he could kill me and l would die an in.
whole affair and not talk about IL for a few
more weeks. Tn Monday he was seizd with
hemorrhac-s. and again, knowing his end was
being killed. Not for another week. said.
He argued that l had consu .nption and could
not live, through the month OF March. This
month he said was always fatal TO copsump-
tives. Wait another week. l said, and then
l went TO .he Emergency Hospital on Middle
street and asked Dr. James Hair. tho phvsi-
cian 10 charge. 10 examine my baby and NY
self. The doctor said neither had consump-
ton. but hat we were run down In heath for
want OF nourishing food. ! told tue doctor
that my husband allowed me only a few centsa
day for food. Will. he spent 81 q day for cod
liver oil and other medicines. Or. Hair called
the attention OF Mr.. Jospsh Brennan 10 my
case. He is SUPERINTENDENT OF the Poor Bu-
rean, Nj. Brennan sent a man to see my hus-
pad. The man reported back that my hus-
band was willing IN go To q hospital. but not
10 the poorhousc. He had SIS In cash. and
while he "ad this money. Then Mr.. Brennan
notified the Board OF Health. That body could
take no action so long as l remained In tho
house nursing my husband. The, advised me
10 leave him so they could take charge OF him.
j vas willing &c do this, but IL was first neces.
sary Tor me to raise.en9uEh money 20 buy .
lives. 81 ! have begun to sell n few OF tho
household articles, and hope TO get enough
money torethsr TO get away TO New, York. l
don't like 10 leave my husband. but I can't re-
main with him any longer. for | fear he will
Kill me. And | don't want TO die ny that |
know ! am not a consuniptire. In the mean
night ] sit up fearing my hue oand may decide
70 kill me. Bv sunday | hope 70 be away
from him, although l regret that en- cour-
PEELED TO desert him when he is 80 sick. NV
husband used to psddle mems furnishing goods
In the various small towns OF Massachusetts
He saved money. but spelt IL in tho south
trying TO cure himself. lie also spent S., 900
which ] had when ! married him, TIE moe
he coaNed me to die, tho more I wanted TO
live, ana | think ! am doing right to leave
him; although he is a very sick nan, and needs
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