Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-10-29
BLAMED ORA GIRL $ DEATH
"Culpable Negligence" The Charge
Against Christian Science Believers.
HEALER AND THE FATHER HELD
The Case of John &. Lathrop and Mr. and
Mrs. Quimby, of White Plains. y. ",
Goes to the Grand Jury-MotIer of
Dead Child Firm in Her Tait:i-ver-
die. OF tho Coronsr's Jury.

Goes to the Grand Jury-MotIi.r of
Dead Child Firm in Her Tait:i-Yer-
die; OF tho Coroner's Jury.
White Plains. y. Y.-Thc ccroner's
jury TO examine into the death of Es-
ther Quimby decided that she "came
to her death from diphtheria and gen
eral septaemia. owing to the culpablc
negligence of her parents. John Quinn.
by and Georgianna Quimby: also Il
certain so-called healer named Joh:,
Carroll Lathrop. in failing to provide
proper medical care and attendance.
The evidence warrants the holding OF
the three persons under the Penal
Code on charge of manslaughter."
Judge Platt held both men in $1,000
bail. They waived examination. and
the case will go direct to the Grand
Jury. Mrs. Quimby, who has tonsilitis,
VIII not be called to plead until she
RECEIVERS.
The death of seven-ycar-cld Esther
Hunter Quimby has made number
of residents of White Plains indignant
ut the disregard OF danger to the vii
lage which is thus revealed. Her sis
ter Bessie, who caught diphthera from
her, is recovering. and her brother is
not in immediate danger. y new case
was reported. that OF Il child who at
tended school with Esther Ouimby.
Mrs. Quimby's symptoms are apparent
ly those of tonSilitis
Mrs. Quimby was examined at her
home by the coroner \ record was
taken. which will be used before The
Grand Jury. She said she had studied
and practised Christian Science for
ten years. She had received lessons
from John Carroll Lathrop, the text
book being The Key to the Scrin-
lures otherwise Mrs. EddyS Science
and Health" For these lessons She
paid 500 for the degree OF c. *, nj.
though she could not tell wherein the
instruction benefited her more than n
mere reading of the book. She had
practiscd on friends and her own fam
III. often receiving therefor fee. She
told or the custom in "healin@" to
deny the error mentally" When
Bessie became i'll she sent for Lathrop.
as she considered him higher teacher
than herself. The course of the
claim" in the dead child's case was
explained
The testimony of Lathrop was m
exposition ana defense OF Christian
''N'N''NN' iit ShNi HP NuS IN lllOpr-
Sonal pastor in the Christian Science
Church. had attended tho Mclaphysi-
cal College in Boston. and had received
instruction from Mrs. Eddy.
Tie found Bessie Ouimhv. hr s9id.
under claim" OF tonSilitis. He
then explained tho Christian Science
IDEAS OF treatment OF disease. sayin.
that all diseases were errors OF mind.
and that consumption ana broken leg
should bc treated in the same way.
TO what would YOU ascrbc Es-
TIERS deathE" asked the coroner.
Nothing. from n Christian Science
point of view. 1t was real in YOUR
sense | suppose" was tho reply.
In his treatment. he said. hc used as
high realization OF the power of God
as possible. He did not believe IN
death, as outsiders did. Tie received
pay for his treatment. sometimes SO
and carfare. usually Il dollar. The foe
depended on the mental state OF the
patient In examining him Coroner
tanning covered almost tho entire
ground OF Mrs. Eddy's book. which he
had evidently read recently.
The case VIII he pushed as ranidly
rs possible. II is said that Health
Of1ccr Birch may also find means OF
proceeding against the parents and
l-athrop for failure to rcrort cases
OF contagious and infections diseases