The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-08

as a matter of public policy, doctor should speak
out
He stopped and faced us
q don't mind telling you that ] dislike the pub
licity that would attend any statement | might make
Exactly" said Andrews ''I appreciate your posi-.
tion exactly. Your other patients would not care to
not care to have them you involved with all the
newspaper notoriety such thing brings
Dr. Thornton shot quick glance at Andrews. as If
ne would like to know Just how much his visitor knew
suspected
Andrews drew a paper from his pocket. "This is
copy of the death certificate, he said .The board
Of health has furnished it to Our physicians at the
vague. word from calling the attention of the
proper authorities to 1T would be sufficient, think,
publicity any more than you do We could have the
body of Mr.. Morowitcb exhumed and examined, but
prefer TO get the facts in the without resorng TO
such extreme measures
1t would do good interrupted the doctor
Andrews nodded, but still held the death certificate
where the doctor constantly reminded Of il.
I'm that certificate have put down the OF
death congestion Of the lungs due attack
of pneumonia That is substantially correct. far
IL goes. When J. was summoned TO sec Mr., Morowitch
found him in 4 senl-conscioqs state and scarcely
breathing. Mrs. Morowltch told me that he had been
brought home in taxicab by man who had picked
him up on William street. I'm frank to say that at
first sight thought 1t of plain intoxcation.
for MI Morowitch sometimes indulged little freely
whsn he made fds sPsRdd DEAL dd smsgd his breath cath
but that did not impress at the time applied my
stetGoacoPe 70 MS 4ng mere was very cry marked con
nonia 1t was a case for quck and heroic action In
a very few minutes had a tank of oxygen from the
hospital
odor and ii flashed on my mind that it might after all
be a poisoning, When the oxygen arrived ad-
ministered 1T at once As happens the Rockefeller
with new antdote for various poisons which consists
simply in a new method Of enforced breathing and
either casethe pneumonia theory tho poison
theory-tls line of action was the best that | could
have adopted on the spur of the moment gave ,bim
work ! had him resting apparently little easier y
messenger came to telling of very sudden illness
Of Mrs Morey the wife Of the steel magnate As the
witch with very particular instructions to his wife
to what TO do
''I had intended to return immediately but before
rot back Mr.. Morowitch dead. Now think I've
told you all You see it nothing but a suspicion
hardly enough to warrant making a fuss about made
out the death certificate YOU Probably that
9d o @ oSsr@ 70 THAT se a% @ GGna
ING again. There. m glad ! We got it of my sys
tenn I've thought about il good deal since your man
was here to see me.
'What do you suspect the cause of tbac sweetsh
The doctor hesitated. mind it is only a suspicion
Cyanide of potassium or cyanoecn gas; either would
give such an odor
Your treatment would have been just the had
you been certain!
Could it have beeu suicide! asked Andrews
There motive for it, ] believe" replied the
doctor,
"Bnt was there any such poison in the Morowitch
house,
raphy Cyanide of potassium is used in certain pro
cesses in photography.
''Who was interested in photography, Mr. or Mrs
Morowitch9"
Both of them. -
WAS Mrs. Morowitch?i'
Both of them repeated the doctor hastily. 1t was
evident how Andrews questions We're tending and it
nit himself ito be misunderstood
Kennedy had sat silently for some minutes turning
the thing in his mind Apparently disregardiug
Andrews entirely, he asked, Doctor supposng IL
had been which caused the congestion Of
the lungs. and supposng it had not been inhaled in
quantities large enough TO kill outright, do you