The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-11
DOCTOR ADMITS HE DECEIVED
 HARTMAN Case Was Hopeless from First, But He Told Pa
 tient the Opposite Berlin Specialist Contends It Was a Humane Act
 On His Part
Contidentially Advised liar rinan's New Physician
 There Was No Hope
1000 Workmen View Body of Dead Financier Today
 Funeral Tomorrow

| By Herbert A. White, Staff Core | spondent of the United Press.) Berlin, Sept. 11.-Prof. Struempel, the Vienna specialist whom the late Ed ward H. Hartman consulted, held out the strongest encouragement to the dying man and his family, while at the same time informing MT. Harri- mans New York physicians of the ut ter hopelessness of his case.
 l Prof. Struempel today enlarged upon his statement of yesterday, telling of his diagnosis of MT. Harriman's com plaint, and he took occasion to correct a. statement credited to him yesterday that he had told the New York phy- sicians that an operation on MT. liar | riman was not at all hopeless.
 When MT. Hartman arrived in Vienna Prof. Struempel said today, the case was already hopeless. He was beyond all medical or surgical re- lief. l dlagnosed the case as cancer of the stomach. I communicated a false and favorable diagnosis to MT. Hartman and his family because I did not wish to add to their sorrow. In a confidential communication to MT. Harriman's New York doctors, however, I told them the whole truth. told MT. Hartman that an operation was not necessary. It wasn't, for no operation could have saved him.
 Prof. Struempel's procedure in tell ing the doomed man an untruth is fully approved by continental physic- ians, who deem it savage cruelty to tell a man that he must die, unless there be circumstances that make it advisable to inform him of his true
 Physicians here say Prof. Struempel made MT. Harriman's last days com paratively happy by creating the be- lief in his mind that his condition was not serious and that his recovery from the outset, he would have died sooner, and been saddened through out his closing days, they say.
 Dispatches from Vienna today say up over intimations of incompetency made against Dr. Struempel and other doctors who saw MT. Hartman while in that city. These intimations are made in New York cables.
 Ry Staff Correspondent of the
 United Press.)
 Turner, N. Y., Sept. 1.-The death of Edward H. Hartman was the re- suit of "heart failure, superinduced by internal complications, according to the death certificate signed by pr. William Gordon Lyle, his personal physician. it is declared today.
 The phrase "heart failure superin- duced by internal complications" could be stretched to cover almost any ailment in the history of medicine, and it throws no real light on the cause of the financier'S death.
 It is declared in Arden today that in his will E. H. Hartman leaves 23, 900 State of New York as a State park, and that Miss Mary Hartman, who will take charge of the Hartman es- tate at Arden, will see that her fa- ther's wish is carried out. The State will be required to maintain the park, it is said, under the terms Of the if nancier'S will.
 MT. Hartman also expressed his de- sire that the work on Arden House shall continue. It will take three Hartman built to last for centuries and which he wished to be the "seat" of the Hartman family in the years to come.
 One thousand men, boney-handed, rigid-visaged men they were, paid chief and patron, as they viewed his I body which lay in state in the central hall of the big mansion these thou | sand men had builded atop of Tower Hill. Tribute more sincere was never paid to any man. Hardy tillers of the | soil, carpenters, masons, artisans of every craft,g whose brawn had been | working to prepare resting place and | home for the railroad wizard in the evening tide of a tumultuous life, paid final respects to their chief.
 Messages of condolence continue to deluge the Arden telegraph office, many of them coming from the other side of the world. None is perhaps more typical of the dead railroad mans place in the world than the lit tie note written to Mrs. Hartman by Father P. F. McAran, the Irish Cath olic priest, whose parish embraces all of the Hartman estate. He extends the coincidence of his parishioners and himself, after telling of the great help he and his church have received from the dead financier.