Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-09
YOUNG DONALD ELLER DIES
Father Refuses to Gall Physician TO Attend
His Son.
CORONER WILL INVESTIGATE THE CASE
Medical Assistance Denied the Boy
During His nIness of Three weeks,
Reliance Being Placed In
Christian Science.

Donald Eller. aged IS. died at 7:45 yes
terday morning at the home OF his father.
former County Judge j. W. Eller, e23 South
Fortieth, after an llness Of three weeks,
during which time he had no medical at
tendance and wac ministered unto by only
his father and a reader Of the Christian
Science church. The funeral. II Is planned,
will be at the home at 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon and the burial at Exeter, Neb..
the following morning.
At 1880 yesterday afternoon Coroner Brai-
ley saw County Attorney Shields and It was
decided that an inquest shall be held at
such time as the coroner may elect. To a
reporter the prosecutor afterward said:
THE inquest will be held that there may
be a full investigation Of the afair. Until
that investigation is made l have nothing
70 give out and no comment to make"
Something Must Be Done.
The mayor said further: Something has
20 be done. for the body cannot be buried
without a permit from the Board OF Health
and the board will not wish to grant such
permit without a physicians certificate, or
until the matter Is disposed Of In q post
norton examination. Judge Filler promised
DR.. Ralph yesterday afternoon when DR..
Ralph called at the house that he would
NuuI0uu n uOCIOTg Dul uiu hui uO 30. Auib
morning Undertaken Burket telephoned
that the boy was dead"
City Physician ]. B. Ralph said yester-
day that he believed the boy died OF typhoid
fever. Mayor Moores said he felt that
something should be done and is willing to
do whatever devolves upon him, but consid-
ers the matter to be rather in the province
of the county attorney. Coroner Bradley
says he will be governed by the advice of
that prosecutor.
Corroborating this DR.. Ralph said: when
] urged Judge Eller to let ne see the boy
or to call some other practitioner yesterday
afternoon he said he would II the boy grew
worse. / answered that / wished his as
surance with no qualifying IL in It. and he
answered: All right, then which nat
hrslly took as definite promise. This morn
ing on my way to the house 1 met him COM
ing from a telephone ONCE and he told me
the child was dead"
A reporter saw Judge Filler yesterday
and was given this version of the story:
Three weeks ago tonight my son ives out
In a wagon with a crowd of young people
and was showing them how fsr he could
lean back over the rear end of the wagon.
While in this position. with his feet under
the seat in front Of him and his back across
"a Ab1A Va INV W6bOA VIVA CAhpOh ia
the crowd playfully struck him In the
stomach. He complained OF pains the next
day and told his sister Frances OF what had
occurred. Very little attention was paid TO
& and he played and ran around az usual
the next day. Saturday night OF that week
he awakened at 1880 o'clock and called TO
me for assistance, saying that his stomach
was paining him / gave him Christian
Science treatment and the next day he was
up. but did not seem to take as much in
terest In affairs as he usually did, though
he seemed to be recovered. During the
night he suffered pain for about an hour
and a half. Sunday afternoon he again be-
came sick and I called in C. w. Chadwick.
first reader OF the church, who since that
time had charge of the case and admins
tered treatment. The %neighbors were al
lowed to be with us at this time. They
diagnosed the case as typhoid fever. while
! called It gastric fever. He seemed cold
outside and hot on the inside. 1t this time
I talked with hin about a physician and he
asked me II he had a doctor would he have
to take medicine, and when I told him yes
he said he wanted me to treat him.
No Use for Doctors.