The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-23
Held FOR HELPING THE STORK
1EBREW CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST
DENIES GIVING MEDICINE.
More East Side Women Testify to Pills and
Disappointments-O One Made Glad With
aBaby-Was Her Fourth, but, SheSays,
Won Can't Have Too Many OF Them.

nBaby-Was Her Fourth but, SheSays,
Won Can't Have Too Many Of Them.
The examination of Julius Benjamin, the
Fast side Christian Scientist, wa concluded
in the Yorkville police court yesterday
afternoon. Benjamin was held for tria
in Special Sessions on the charge Of practis-
ing medicine without a license.
BENJAMIN himself took the stand and
awore he had not used medicines with his
natients but worked only through prayers ,
He showed the cards printed in Yiddish and
English that he had hung up on the walls
Of his home. They contained passages
from the Scriptures.
Il always told my patients that their
ills we're to be cured through faith in God,
he said. when Mrs. Jaoobwitz came to
me l asked her II she thought God could
cure her, She said yes, and 1 gave her a
paper of prayers and sent her into another
room to read and mediate. She had a
tumor and said the pain made her wish she
could die. She came back to me in four
weeks. I told her God never made evil any
more than he could tell a lie. I read the
prayers to her and impressed them on her
mind. I always treated her by preaching
God. I only talked of God to her. Yes ,
l charged her 81 a visit. Her pain began to
70 away and her soul frightened more and
more as I read to her from the Scriptures
slow many persons lave you treated
tn the eleven yearsA you havO been In the
professionl' asked his lawyer.
ooh, many thousands"
Max Sachs was called as q witness and
be said he had been treated by the de-
fendant. Il was crippled In my feet and
I went TO Gee Mr.. Benjamin, who had God
In bis house, ! was told,' said the witness.
'He told me he only worked and cured
through prayer. I was treated by a num-
Der of doctors and was in the hospital,
but they did me no good. I was CURED by
Mr.. Benjamin and I recommended him to
other people,
was another witness who had faith In Ben
jamin. She said she was blind in both eyes
when she went to him. Now she can see
out Of her right eye as we'll as ever, she
asserted, and the other one is getting better.
she gave me books and papers Of prayers
TO read" she continued, "and I put faith
In God and now I am happy and we'll. He
only charged me 30 cents a visit because
am a o woman. God bless him for
my sight that came back"
She didn't explain how she read the papers
when she was blind.
Mrs. Rosie Mengel OF 233 Seventh
street said she kept a Turkish bath and had
been married ten years, but had had no
children.
Il met Mrs. Goldstein, who was feeling
happy because she was going to have a
baby" said the witness. and she recon-
mended me to go to Benjamin for myself.
| went to him and told him l wanted q
baby, and h~epromised he could get me one.
He sat on q chair and l sat on a chair, and
then he touched his forehead and looked
up to the ceiling. He told me to open my
mouth and he put a pill in it. He took
the pill from his pocket
Did you get the baby?' asked the de-
fendant's counsel.
INo, / di d not"
The court wasflled with East Side m
some with their husbands. There was a
litter among the women when the witness
told about her disappointment The crying
Of a baby came from the back of the court.
Il want that woman up here. Here e
where one woman, at least, had a baby
after visiting Benjamin. Mrs. Hickman,
come here" called out Harold Spielberg.
A woman with a baby about 9 months
old in her arms went up before the Magis-
trate. She said she was Mrs, Bertha TECH
man Of 80 Pitt street.
We're you at Benjamin's Office for treat
ment?" Spielberg asked.
Sure I was. He's a fine man. He
gave me books of prayer to read and read
them to me-, she replied.
Did he pure you''
Did you have a baby after going to
YES. I did"
Did you have any before going to see
him." asked Magistrate Moss.
YES, l had three; but l wanted another
one. You can't have too man. children"
Mrs. Goddard said Benjamin had prom
ised her a baby, but she was disappointed
and she now thought he was a humbug.
Half a dozen other witnesses we're called.
Some declared that Benjamin gave them
pills for their physical ills; others said he
used only prayer.
If this man, who was a Hebrew, had
not put out the sign Of a Christian Scientist
there would not ave been any prose-
cution in this case" said Lawyer Spielberg.
He wanted to call some well known Chris
tan Scientists as witnesses but Magistrate
Moss said that was not the issue. That
ended the case.
ENDORSED BY CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST.
A statement regarding Benjamin was
sent to The Sun last night from the office
Of the Christian Science Publication COM
mittee at / Madison avenue. This is a
portion of it:
When asked to express an opinion n regarding
the case Of julius Benjamin. who has been
tried in the Yorkville court on the charge Of
practising medicine without a license, II.
Cornell Wilson, Christian Science Publication
Committee, said that Benjamin is recognized
as a Christian Scientist in good standing. a
member of a local church. He said that Ben
iamin had been actively interested in Christian
Science for upward Of ten years. That during
all this time he had never been involved In any
trouble. either with people Of his own race
RUSSIAN jew or with others.
Mr.. Wilson, who had attended the police
court hearing. gave it as his opinion that the
testimony against Benjamin was the result Of
persecution and a deliberate attempt to injure
him, and for no other cause than the alleged
attempt to introduce Christianity among the