The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-24
BUTTE News.
DIDN'T HAVE A DOCTOR
Mrs. Susannah Hess Treated by
the Christian Scientists.
THE RESULT WAS DEATH
II Was Thought She Had Pneumonia but
the Certificate Gives the Cause rs
Dropsy-A Strange Mistake
in the Document.

Another death took place yesterday i'm
Butte under the auspices Of the Christ
ian scientists. That is to say. a woman
died who was attended by no regular
physician, by no person entitled to prac-
tice by the board Of medical examiners.
Every now and then for five or six
years past there has been a wave of
Indignation in Butte over the fact that
some person has died who has been
doctored by Christian scientists and
perhaps maltreated. There is always
considerable talk at the time. all sorts
of prosecutions for malpractice and
practicing without a license were
threatened. but nothing ever came of it
all. The Christian scientists keep right
on with their deadly work and nothing
more is said until somebody else dies
on their hands.
. The head Christian scientist Of Butte
us Mrs. Anna c. +. Crowley. who occu-
pies room IL OF the Columbia block.
AT 4 o'clock yesterday morning there
died there Mrs. Susannah Hess. None
of Mrs. Hess relatives pretend to know
the cause of her death. They thought
II was probably pneumonia, hut Mrs.
Crowley certified in the certificate of
death that it resulted from dropsy.
Mrs. Susannah Hess was Sc years old
and a native Of switzerland. She had
lived Is years in Butte. She Is the
mother of Gus Hess. who is sergeant in
one of the Butte companies of the Mon
tana regiment who is now on his way
to the Philippines.
A Standard reporter called to see
Mrs. Gus Hess. but she was not at
home. Her mother, however, said: Il
cannot tell you the causesof Mrs. Hess
death. for we don know the particu-
lars. She was taken sick a week ago
.last Thursday. II seemed to US to be
: pneumonia. We had no physician, as
she preferred to try the Christian scien-
fist. She went back and forth between
Mrs. Crowley's and here for several
days. She would be there for a day or
two and then they would bring her here
and come and get her again. The last
thine they took her away was last
Thursday night. and none of us have
seen her since. My daughter went to
Mrs. Crowley's to see her m Friday
evening. but did not see her. She was
told that Mrs. Hess was sleeping and IL
would not do TO disturb her then. That
was about five or six hours before she
died"
Coroner Tremblay said last evening
that no complaints had been made to
him i'm regard to this case, and he was
mot disposed TO hold an inquest unless
some complaint should be made to him.
Health Officer ShultZ said that the
certificate of death was made out by
Mrs. Crowley all right. This. however.
was not illegal. The blank form used
i'm the health Office gives a space for
name Of physician or other attendant,
so a nurse could iii out the certificate
Of death as well as the doctor. and a
burial permit could be issued on Mrs.
Crowley's certificate Of death unless
some one makes a complaint.
The return Of death signed by Anna
G. +. Crowley c%ertifies that death was
caused by dropsy after one weeks i'll
ness. The only thing that looks bad on
the return Of death is that Mrs. Crow
ley in the return of death gives as
the place Of death No. Il West Cop
per street instead Of Mrs. Crowley's
room in the Columbia block. where
-she really died. Why Mrs. Crowley
q certified hat the woman died at Il
West Copper street, instead of room IL
I'm the Columbia block. cannot be told.
A Standard reporter called tWfce last
evening at Mrs. Crowley's office To ask
her hat question. but failed TO find her
as hnFsna