Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-09
Patients Who ClamOr for Blood
less Surgery" Exponent Find
Note Tackled to Door.
DIRECTED ELSEWHERE, BUT
GET LITTLE SATISFACTION.
One Claims He Got Part of His
MoneyBack-Nurse in Recent
Auto Crash Also Vanishes.

For the past week "the halt the lame
and the blind" mostly foreigners, have
laid siege to the bare office of the Peo-
pies Medical Institute, formerly pre-
sided over by DR.. Henry j. Schireson.
of 30 Central avenue, to be met with a
notice telling them that patients
would be treated by Jersey City ply
sician."
This was the first intimation that
DR.. Schireson, who recently got into
the public prints when an automobile
In which he was a passenger crashed
into railway gate at the unseemly
hour of a. m. near Trenton, had dis
appeared. Even his intimate friends
plead ignorance of his whereabouts.
Meanwhile the "home of bloodless
surgery" is without a head, and there
Is every kind of talk regarding the in
stitution and the manner of conducting
its affairs. Along with the doctor, the
nurse, Miss Helen Hackett, who. was
with him when the auto made its wild
plunge, and an Amazonian negress
housekeeper, are missing. In addition
to the patients who are laying siege 70
the institute 1t was declared today
that an army of creditors is also on
the trail Of the doctor,
He west Away.
Apparently the doctors disappear
ance dates from about the time of the
automobile accident and the persistent
knocking" of the institution by one
Harry Kronenberg, of 14s West Kinney
street, who declares that he succeeded
in making the doctor give back $25 of
the $50 he (Kronenberg) had paid him
i for tra1fnaanf Krnnonh h0ru "a
the money was returned to him when
he threatened that he would expose"
DIR. Schreson, the Peoples Medical In
stitute and the Home of Bloodless
| Surgery"
On the morning of August 81 an auto,
in which were DR.. Schireson, DIR" L.
Poster, who today admitted that he has
no call to the title of doctor, and DR..
8. p. Ritter, Of New York: Miss
Hackett, the "bloodless surgery nurse,
and young woman whose name never
became public, smashed into the Penn
sylvahia railroad gates just outside the
limits of Trenton. All were more or
less hurt and the auto smashed. The
injured were taken to a Trenton hos
pital. 1t was given out by the doctors
| that they were on their way to a
| L HlldutlpHld uOoplldl " ptIlOIIH dl
| operation. In an unguarded moment
Miss Hackett Is alleged to have de-
clared that the operation was a myth;
that the party simply was on a Joy
ride.
| This auto accident brought lot of
| unpleasant advertising for the institu-
! ton. it is said. More unpleasant ad-
vertising was threatened when Harry
Kronenberg threatened to expose" the
institute through the newspapers.
Signs ON Door.
On the glass doors of the institute
| today were two similar signs, which
read: "All patients are referred to
DIR. 1. De Forest Nichols, 10s-10Sh New
ark avenue, Jersey City, who has taken
| over DR. Schiresons practise" These
signs have been there for some days.
It was stated that DIR. Schireson and
his medical institute came to this city
! about eight months ago. By liberal
advertising, principally in newspapers
printed in foreign languages, it was said
that quite a practise was built up. A
corps of interpreters, besides DR..
Schireson and Miss Hackett, the nurse,
made up the institute staff.
Here is the story of Harry Kronen-
berg's experience at the home of blood
less surgery as told by himself to an
EVENING STAR reporter today:
Friends told me a few months ago
that 1 might consult Dr. Schireson at
the Medical Institute for treatment for
lung trouble l went there about three
weeks ago. DR.. Schireson made super
fetal examination and said he would
take my case for 800. When I told
him l would come back later for treat
ment he demanded SO for the examina-
tion, to which l demurred. When he
insisted, however, l gave him SO to ap-
ply on any future payments l might
make.
Some days later / came back and
gave him $50. He placed me In what
he called his 1nhalatorium.' 1t is a
box-lke room about four feet square,
with zinc covering. There were two
tiny windows 1t was like the hot
room of a Turkish bath They told
me that they poured gas into 1t.
~ stayed in there for a short time,
went out into the street and got an
awful cold Miss Hackett told me to
come back in few days. When 1
came back she was surprised to see
me- She said that 1 need not come so
often. But get into the inhalatorium
again., she said. She told me to call
another day and again chided me for
coming.
"Then l made up my mind about the
whole thing and decided that would
tell Schireson my opinions. l noticed
that on each of my visits some piece
of furniture was missing. l have since
learned that the household effects were
being removed piece by piece. Miss
Hackett, when I spoke of this, said
that the doctor was getting ready to
make alterations
There were a number of patients,
mostly foreigners. when l went into
the office on the morning of August "a.
told my opinions to DR.. Schireson.
He told me to keep quiet. then took
a stand on the steps and told everyone
who entered that the place was just
what I thought about 1t. Miss Hackett
saw me from window, and called me