The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-04

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 CHARGES AGAINST DR. LAMB
 Continued from Third Page.) nitted that when, twelve days after he was requested to affix the same name to another bastard child, he did take note of it as remarkable, and also that he knew that the mistress of the house which was the field of his profess sional labors, was actuated by animos- ity toward the gentleman whose name was so shamefully abused.
 The view which Dr. Lamb maintained before your committee of his duty in this business as being merely clerical permitting and compelling simply the mechanical filling in and sending to the registrar of the birth certificates, of course prevented him making to the committee the statement which a few days later he publicly. under oath made to the board of health, as fol- lows:
 Now, doctor, in reference to the girl May somers told you that she wanted the child named Newman Smyth Som- CTS, did you say anything? A. didn't.
 0. Not a word? A. No; I put it down on my subscription blank.
 0. How is that, sir? A. I always when I asked these questions, took the question that was asked on the birth certificate
 Q. My inquiry was if you made any remark of any kind? A. None what ever.
 0. When the girl made this sugges- tion to you? A. No, sir, none what ever
 0. When the other girl, Kate Win ters, said that she wanted to call the child Newman Snyth Winters, did you make any remark? A. did.
 0. Did it strike you as anything pe- culiar? A. Yes.
 O. That those girls should make that request? A. Yes.
 0. When May Somers told you that she was going to name the child New man Smyth Somers it struck you as peculiar? A. didn't think much about that.
 Q. But when the second one was named it struck you as peculiar? A. Yes, it did.
 0. Did you make any remark. A. None whatever. And I would like to qualify that and tell you why I made mo remark. I thought, if there was through me-this is a peculiar set of names, but pshaw, what is the differ ence, said, these birth certificates will go to the city hall and will be buried with the rest of the birth certificates returned there, and what difference does it make? And said nothing and put it down.
 0. You thought that through your mind at that time? A. Yes, that was substantially the thought that 1 had that it wouldn't make any difference.
 0. That it would be dead and bur- jed? A. mean that the birth certifi- cates would go into the city hall and be buried with hundreds of others, and mo, one would know it, and the papers got hold of it and make book of that I never expected that.
 O. And if you had supposed that that publicity would have been used in the matter you would have taken a differ ent course, suppose doctor? A. Why,
 
 persecuted the way I have been, yes.
 O. Is that the only reason? A. simply would have refrained from put ting any name down in any other case, with the experience I have had. shouldn't put any name down, but that time I never had any trouble with any, body and didn't know that had an en- emy in New Haven, and I simply put 1t down.
 0. And you thought it was peculiar? IA Yes.
 o. But you thought it wouldn't be known, so you let it go? A. 1 didn't care The point of it's being known that part didn't worry me, but all that newspaper notoriety was very distaste- ful to me, and I should have refrained from putting it down to avoid the newspaper notoriety.
 0. Did you anticipate any newspa- per notoriety? A. I didn't-certainly mo.
 These two statements-the one that he had no discretionary power in such a case, the other that he would have used discretion if he had anticipated consequences unpleasant to himself-it need not be said, are absolutely ire conciliable with each other. The latter of the two, being given to the public under oath, is reasonably to be regard ed as the deliberate and mature result of Dr. Lambs mental labor upon the question. The natural, the inevitable, inference from it is that although the shameful indecency of this proposal did not deter Dr. Lamb from accepting and acting upon it, yet if he had thought it would involve personal inconvenience to him he would have taken a different course,'' and would have put no such names into the returns. Dr. Lambs statement that he thought these certi- ficates of his would go into the city hall and be buried with hundreds Of others. and no one would know it,'' is too thin to stand a moments examina-