Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-28


DR.. Meek appeared to deprecate
the manner in which Sine was
dumped uoon this city, and told
the City hospital people that their
bill would be paid by the county
authorities of Tyler. What the
Tyler county authorities should, do
is to go after the persons who
dumped Sine at Haskins' hospital
in such "a reprehensible manner.
Such events as this give color to
the statements often made that
some of the counties down the
river, Tyler in particular, are in the
habit of sending just such cases as
Sine's to this city. and then desert
ing them, knowing that sooner or
later the authorities here would be
compelled to take the cases IN
harge.-Wheeling Intelligencer.
The above article is very unfair
to our people when the facts IN the
case are known. Overseer Of the
Poor, Captain John c. Way, was
notified a few days since of young
Sine being i'll, poor and trlendless.
Mr.. Way had him sent at once to
the poor house, where the attend
ing physician reported that Sine
had typhoid fever and should be
sent to a hospital where he could be
nursed and properly cared for, and
adding that the county court would
pay the expense. Mr.. Way en-
ployed young man to take Sine
to the hospital, he buying tickets
for both Sine and his attendant.
Why the attendant left Sine is not
known. Now, we submit to can
did public if any one can conceive
of anything better that could be
done for the young man than to
send him to first class hospital to
be nursed for fever. We think that
all will agree that this was the
best thing that could be done for
the unfortunate man. Further,
as soon as Way heard of the case in
Wheeling he at once sent DR.. Meek
to Wheeling to see if the man was
really Sine. The whole fault was
in the young man who took Sine
to the hospital. Why he did do as
he is charged with having done is
more than we can tell. The county
authorities were working for the
best, were perfectly willing to pay
the expense, and were not to blame.
We have some things here we ought
not to have, but any one that &C
cuses Our county court or any 9TH
er officer with not providing amply
and lavishly even for the poor of
the county, lies, either willfully or
ignroantly. Our financial state
ment only recently published
shows that we have spent
thousands and thousands of dollars
for our poor, and no poor person
whether worthy or not, need suffer
in Tyler county.
We never heard of Sistersville
palming' off her poor on to any
body. We can and do pay our own
way and trust the Intelligencer will
be fair and publish these facts as
they really are. We, as a people
are entirely exonerated from this
sad death and no one is at fault but
the one man, the attendant. We
regret the matter deeply but we
are not to blame, neither are our Of
fcers.
Since writing the above we have
been credibly informed that the
story told by the Wheeling papers
about Sine having been left lying
out on the stone steps, is fabrica.
ton. Sine was kept in the hospital
for three days when it was learned
that he was demented and was sent
away to the Jail where insane peo-
pie are properly confined. The
story then is nothing out of the
usual, and only shows the Wheel
ing papers to be again at work at