The age-herald., 1898-03-25
MODERN DR. JEKYL
 AND MIR. HYDE Bessemer Physician Who Played
 a Dual Role, LEADS IN CHURCH WORK While Taking Advantage of Professional En- trance Into Homes Made Improper Pro- posaIs-- Kicked Out bylrate Hus-
 band and Skipped.
LEADS IN CHURCH WORK
snecial to The Age-Herald.

Bessemer, March 24-Dr. Shelby c. Car son of this city, who has been reported In New York, taking a special course In the hospital there, Is really a fugitive from the wrath of the irate husband of a lady pa- tient, insulted in the absence of her hus- band, and while the doctor was making professional call.
 For ten years this gray-haired libertine has been leading a dual life in Bessemer, and it is reported that he was run out of Greensboro, Ala, at the time he first came here, for taking advantage of a young lady patient. Were the true history of pr. car sons life in Bessemer laid bare 1t would rival the story of Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde. He was considered one of the pillars Of the Presbyterian church, a great Sunday school worker, and never even missed prayer meeting, at which he was invari- ably one of the leaders At the time of his departure between two suns, he was dean of the Montezuma University Medical col lege and a member of the county board of health. Associating with Bessemer's leading phy sfcians and business men, surrounded by family moving in the best of circles and covered by the cloak of the church, he went unpunished for ten years, while the whole time the sole aim of the practice of
 
 advantage of his patients for the gratifca- ton of the cravings of his debauched nature.
 Representing Scientific Society
 It was several years ago that he ap preached several well-known ladies, and, claiming to represent some scientific society studying the development of American womankind, tried to get them to his office for the purpose of taking measurements, aI,,lxa Iioaa rnd nm til the indignation of their male protectors had cooled Later he attempted liberties with young lady patient and member or his church. Her screams brought the lady of the house at which she was Staylng, put the wolf in sheeps clothing slunk away and fin some way succeeded in retaining the good opinion of the lady of the house, who is also a sister in the church. Still later he was arraigned in his church for insult ing a young married woman, but somehow the matter quieted down. He Is reported to have debauched young lady, whose mother he attended in her last illness, and to hide her shame performed a criminal op- eration. Not long since he was kicked out of house in Short street for insulting lady he was attending For months past it is said, he has been taking advantage or female patient in Jonesboro, whose husband at the time of his disappearance was look ing for him with a shotgun.
 His Last Act
 But the eliminating atrocity of the lech- erous disciple of Aesculapius occurred short time ago and accounts for his pres ent enforced absence. For several years he had been the family physician of a neighbor one of the foremost, refined and highly esteemed families in the city. This family reposed every confidence in this family physician. The husband had been absent for a day or two and was not ex- pected back for day or so longer. Dr. Carson had been in attendance for some indispostion and one evening made foul proposition. At first hardly comprehend ing, then looking at him, perceiving the reality, thunderstruck at the revelation, she pointed to the door, hysterically order ing him from the house. Like whipped cur he sunk away.
 At o'clock next night the husband re- turned. His wife immediately told him the story and was reiterating the details when the door bell rang. The husband went to the door. Dr. Carson came braz- enly in. The husband unable to restrain his indignation with one blow felled him to the floor and punished him until, making no resistance disgusted at the wretch, he grasped him by his whiskers, jerked him to his feet, told him never again to per- init him to see him, opened the door, and with one kick sent him sprawling into the street. Carson tottered to his home, but few steps away, was put to bed and two or three nights after that disappeared from the city.
 He will never return. His last move was the fatal one and his dramatic exit a fitting finale to a base and degraded career and has forever rid Bessemer of his vile presence.