Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
SMALL BOY DIES
IN GREET AGONY
hF7ER DOG s BITE
VICTIM IS SAMUEL KERN, WHO
FAILS TO SURVIVE DESPITE
PHYSICIANS EFFORTS.
OTHERS IN CANNES CLUTCH.
Health Commissioner Claims Victims
Disease Was Not Hydrophobia, but
Issues Burial Permit.
TESTS MADE AT THE CITY HALL.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 8. 1905
Forty days after being bitten by a dog
which, it is said, also had sunk its fangs
into the flesh Of a little girl and an aged
man of the west side ghetto district, .
year-old Samuel Kern died at the Emer
gency hospital at o'clock this morning.
DR.. Bading and other doctors of the
city health department take the stand
that hydrophobia was not the direct
cause of death. For the time being. how
ever, the health department has issued
a burial permit in which this disease is
given as the cause of death.
Garry On Blood Tests.
While the officials of DR.. Bading's
department have been cognizant of the
facts III the case for some time, they
have kept them secret Tests to deter
NINE NINE whether the, dog was suffering
from the malady have been carried on
III the city hall laboratory and it is
probable that further tests will be car
rled on alter post mortem examination
of the boy victim.
Two Others Bitten.
The Kern boy is said to have been bit
ten bJ dog belonging to Jonas l.. Brandt
OF 0U2 Sherman street, on March -. On
the same day, it is said, Allen Filing
son, 10 years DID, and girl y years old,
named Rupert, were bitten by the same
dog. Since that time the little girl and
her parents have moved to Minnesota.
The old man still shows the signs of
the CANNES teeth.
Suffers Throat Spasms.
The boy victim was attended by q
neigh borhOOd doctor in the first instance
and it was thought that no ill-results
would follow the encounter with the
animal. Lately, however, the boy be-
came i'll and Friday night he was taken
to the Emergency hospital for treat
ment. All through the night he suf-
fered paroxysms of pain. What are
known to the medical profession as
throat spasms, somewhat resembling
lockjaw, made it impossible for the pa
tient to swallow anything. This morn
ing after night Of agony he died.
Not Jonas Barndt's Dog.
The owner of the dog, whose blood
was tested in the health department
laboratory, is Jonas Barndt. He admits
that his dog bit the girl because she
Ellingson, his aged father-in-law. He
denies. however, that his dog was the
one that bit the Kern boy and in this
he is cOrroborated by Mr.. Ellingson and
the father Of the Kern boy.
Make Tests with Dogs Blood.
Not long after the attention of DR..
Bading and his assistants was drawn to
the Sixth street case, they made an in
vestigation. In order to safeguard the
community and to gain scientific in
formation, the owners of the dog were
ordered not to kill him. This order, how
ever, was not obeyed and the animal
was done away with. The carcass was
taken to the city hall where it was given
over to the laboratory experts. \ rabbit
was innoculated and the test proved a
negative one, the subject of the test be-
ing unaffected by the iunoculation. After
a post mortem of the body Of the Kern
boy, a spinal column test will be con-
ducted