The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-21
THREATEN
BEAUTIFUL GIRL;
MARSH EXPIRES
Stenographer of Rich Manufac-
turer Bit by Same Dog
Which Injected Him.
HE DEFIES HYDROPHOBIA
AND SCORNS TREATMENT
Three Days of Terrible Convul-
sions End Life of the
Heroic Victim.

NEW YORK, May 21.-After three
days of the most acute physical suffer
ing and mental anguish, at intervals re-
lieved by heavy doses of opiates, Will
lam HI. Marsh, the wealthy inventor
and manufacturer of Flatbush, Brook
Ign, is dead from the rabies, and Miss
Edna D. Thompson, the beautiful
young stenographer employed by the
unfortunate man, has Mortified her
family and friends by declaring that
the same dog which i%noculated Mr..
Marsh with the deadly poison bit her
In the face. The horrible commissions
which twisted and contorted his body
and the muscles of his face in a man.
ner so frightful that none of his sor-
row-stricken family could bear to look
upon the haplesS man ceases a few
hours before death, and the end came
with merciful coma.
During his conscious moments he
manifested courage and fortitude that
his physicians declare was marvellous.
He tried valiantly to conceal from his
family the dreadful suffering he en-
dured.
The pet dog which infected Mr.. Marsh
with his most painful of maladies
when he dressed a wou in it's side
and it licked his hand, upon which
there must have been an abrasion,
however small, may claim two more
victims.
AS yet Miss Thompson has shown no
symptoms of rabies, and has caused
the greatest anxiety among her rela-
fiuoc opd Friends nv rafpSin1 aston.
treatment,
II am sure l am all right, and | am
not going to bother with the Pastedr
treatment" she declared. IF [ have
been poisoned | can't help it. The doe
tors told me hat the disease might not
develop for a year or more. ! have not
felt any of the symptoms yet"
Ramsey Marsh IS taking the com
plete COZ: Sc of treatment. He says
that he will not take any chances. He
was his fathers right hand man at
the factory and will undoubtedly fill
his fathers place there.
sympathy from Everywhere.
From all parts of the country letters
and telegrams of sympathy came to
the Marsh home yesterday. The tele-
phone was kept constantly ringing.
Persons as far away as Chicago, Pitts
purg and Philadelphia called up to
offer help and advice. A doctor in
Chicago said he would wait at the rail-
read station for Il message TO come 20
New York.
So widespread was the interest here
in the pathetic case that 800 persons,
nearly all of them strangers to the
Marsh family. called at the house yes
terday. The majority of them were sure
they had a sure cure for the rabies,
There were also those in the crowd who
had been deeply touched by reading of
the Grave manner in which Mr.. Marsh
was facing his death sentence, and
these brought~fiowers.
Mr.. Marsh's case WIS of great inter
est to the staff of the Pasteur Institute.
DR.. Wheeler said that he had known
only two other cases like it, and he had
not had an opportunity to observe these
cases.
Right TO a Mind.
"Such a case has in it many condi-
tions which seem to warrant grave in
v%estigation and consideration sale
Clark Bell, president of the Medico-
Legal Society. at its meeting last night
when the Marsh case was considered
1.-THE question of how far a doctor may
even at tine request of a patient. take
the power to remove life and conscious
ness into his own hands, is a serious one
of most far-reaching consequences. 1t il
one closely related to this case if the
facts are as they appear. If the mind
has a power over the body, as scientific
men all over the world are asserting
what and where is the right of a physi-
clan to remove all chance of that power
being exercised by the administration
of deadening drugs"