The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-03
THE COURT MADE HER EAT.


CHICAGO, June ga Waukegan
court ordered a woman fed today in
spite of herself. Physical force was
relied on to break the self-imposed
sixteen-day fast of Mrs. Harry Hunter
of Zion City, one of the followers OF
Adam Thompson, the cult leader
sought by the police in connection
with the recent death of his wife,
Mrs Louis Thompson, in forty-day
fast. BY order of the court and the
strength of two nurses and a physi-
clan food was to be forced down Mrs.
Hunters throat as she lay in Wauke-
gan hospital and her intention of
emulating Mrs. Thompson and endea-
voring to do without food for sixty
days foiled. At the last moment the
proposed desperate remedy proved
unnecessary, the woman surrendering
and drinking a glass of milk. After
she had pleaded in vain for more
time than the two hours allowed her
to decide whether she would eat vo-
UNFAIRLY or be forced to do so.
ACT ON HUSBANDS PLEA.
The end of Mrs. Hunters fast APP
preached in a sensational manner at
ter she had been arrested this morn
ing by Sheriff Griffin of Lake county.
The sheriff went to Zion City at 8
o'clock this morning after Mrs. Hunt
ers husband, Judge E. K. Hunter of
Burnham, ILL.,, had made a fruitless
attempt to induce herr to eat and had
finally consented to proceedings be-
ing brought against her in the Lake
county court in order that she might
be examined for her sanity.
When the sheriff arrived at the
house where Mrs. Hunter had been
staying he had no difficulty in max
ing the arrest The woman offered
no resistance, but when requested to
take a little food said she would
rather die first. She astonished the
sheriff by quoting several bible texts,
which she interpreted as supporting
her in her position.
JUDGE AND DOCTOR DEFIED,
Sheriff Griffin took her to Wauke-
gan and on her arrival there she was
| taken before Judge G. l.. Jones in the
county court Judge Jones question
ed her briefly and asked her to yield
10 the persuasions of her husband and
others and to take some nourishment,
| When she refused he ordered her
taken to the Jane McAllister hospital
and directed Dr. F. c. Knight to take
charge of her.
When DR.. Knight made an exam
ination of the woman he immediate
ly arrived at the conclusion that I'M
less her fast, which had been in
progress for sixteen days, was broken
she might soon die. He told her so
and pleaded with her to take some
food, but his efforts were as futile
as those of Judge Hunter and Judge
Jones. She persisted in her effort
to defy the laws of nature.
TUBE AS CHANNEL FOR FOOD.
DIR. Knight then issued instructions
that the woman should be forced to
take food. Three hospital nurses
were enlisted as his assistants and
with their aid a tube was to be placed
in Mrs. Hunters mouth, despite her
struggles. Through this tube milk
was to be forced into her mouth.
Notwithstanding her long fast the
woman was expected to put up g
struggle against the efforts of the
doctor and the nurses. But ten min
utes before the limit of p. m. which
had been set by the court as the hour
for the enforced meal, Mrs. Hunter
took the milk.
The case of Mrs. Hunter will be
disposed of tomorrow morning before
Judge Jones of the Lake County
court. He will hear evidences as to
her sanity. DR.. Knight and Judge
Hunter both said today that they be
lieved her deranged and Judge Hunt
er said he was willing that she SHOULD
be sent to a state institution.
The Zion City police learned today
that man who Is a follower OF Adam
Thompson is also supposed to be en-
gagged in a long fast.
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