The evening world., 1911-06-05
Stout Raved in Delirium of
"MuSic," Though Roths
Had Stopped Practice.
NERVES WERE
Doctor Declares He Would
Have Lived Had Piano Been
Quoted in Time.

hesncfS appeal to the Court 10 20: 80
Fireman John Ro,h's t~en.year.o,a
daughter. Edna. to stop playing the
piano. Is dead az his home, No. 1904
Second avenue. and the attending nhv.
A@an DR.. Charles J. Goeiler, declaring
thet ne believed the boy could have re-
covered II the Roths had stopped their
daughters practice when nrs. requested
TO do so, said to-day nc would Law IN.
case before the Board of Health and
the County Medical Society. lie wants
an ordinance of the boaTd TO cover such
cases.
Young Stout's family live on the same
moor Is the Roths. Las, March he was
attacked by heart trouble and his doc
tor said the plano playing aggravated
II. Roth declined to stop his daughter
from practising and was De-
fore Magistrate House on May Is. lie
S8ntended he had a right to have the
pzpno played. and hat the Board of
Health. after an Investigation, had so
told him. He finally consented to stop
the playing for a month. Yesteriay
morning young Stout died. The death
certificate gives the cause OF death as
chronic cardiac valvular. chronic paren-
chymatous pephrius and pulmonary
oedema.
Poor Freddie raved OF pianos and
playing almost until the end" said his
mother. Mrs. Henry ". stout, to-day.
From the time the case was in court
.on May q and Mr.. Roth had promised
his daughter wouldn't play any more the
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he saw the Magistrate. Roth. his daugh-
GER and the policemen In the sick room.
"sThey are there. mamma he said 10
ne; no matter what they may say they
will play And then he would cry out.
oh. Judssl Oh. Judged
'Oncs during that time he pointed to
. corner Of tho room.
mamma, So that little girl there
the poor boy said. Drive her out She Is
soang 70 playr"
FEARED THAT THE TORTURE
WOULD De RENEWEpa
when Freddie had lucid moments"
that when the month was Up he W., ID
not be able TO be moved.
Suppose. mamma he said. I an
~ bShtGA. ~ wv NliAkAAA lidt tutJ " ~
S;il. playr
Il told him that OF course they
wouldn't. but 1 couldn't get the idea VI
music out OF his mind.
Every noise in the nighborhood ne
thought was a little giri playing u
piano. The boy maze lAe best ns.t "a
the world. Before Mr. Rom PROMISED
me magistrate It woulu 10 Stopped. lao
10Y SAID ~ me ueioIe the paying ue-
gan: Mama, let Mr.. Roth come in anu
sec me; perhaps he II give me 4 chanse
Tor my life -ly husband asked MIR
Roth to stop the playing and opened
the door IN the hallway TO tell Mr.. ltota
that my boy wanted TO see him, but 10
was so angry / did not dare let my boz
zee him."
The mothers story OF Frederick's last
days agreed with the statements OF DR..
Goeller. and the boys SISTERS. Mrs.
Frederick kanzler. No. AZ East one
Hundred and SlXty-second street. ana
Mrs. Florence Zlegler. No. LOO Second
avenue.
MIR. Roth was asked to-day II IN view
Of the death of the hoy he thought his
attitude had been wrong. lie replied:
II stick by what I said in court whsn
I told the Magistrate that there
wouldn't have been IN trouble II
utout hadn't asked uB to stop In the way
he aid, When a man tells me l can't
have piano playing in my house, |
want TO know what right he has to
sRy II, that Is, unless he asks II as a
favor, We'll, the poor fellow 10 dead
nov. His suffering 10 over. Hes
ssttss or"
THEY HAD ME SORE" IS RoTH's
EXCUSE.
A moment later Roth said:
"Thsy had me sore at the way they
.cted. Why. my wife did everything
that she could for those people when
:he boy became sick. She even sat up
all night with them once when ne
seemed to be bad. We stopped the prac-
lice then, and after he got bette my
wife thought 1t wouldn't hurt him. MY
mother was sick herself ana we
bought she'd die. but she wanted the
title girl to play,
II haven't done anything that ]
haven't a right to do. Tnere's nothing
in the Penal Code about 1t. About d
YEAR ago my two children there
Roth pointed to them on the Sidewalk
were dying, And what dil those
people upstairs do? They had a party
md played the piano and graphic
phone, and we asked them not to DO II,
and they said that invitations were
out"
with the parents Of Frederick Stout
and his brother and sisters to-day