New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-13
FRIEDMAN, SUED FOR
100000, WILL NOT TALK
Writes Denial That Dr.. Sturm
Has Any Turtle Germ Cult
ureS to Give Away.
SECRET OFFERED TO U. S.
First tuberculosis Institute for
Use of Serum To Be in West
End Avenue, Near to
Third Street.

The germ has turned. Goaded by the
threats of his cast-off friend, Or. NJ. A.
Sturm TO make public his turtle germ
secret and give 1t away to all corners for
nothing, Or. Friedrich Franz Friedman
took refuge in silence last night, a ST.
lence that was broken only by a type
written statement. saying: "The state
ments attributed to Or. Sturm are not
only utterly false in all their details, but
so ridiculous that ! find it beneath my
dignity to discuss them. and | refuse to
enter into any debate with DR.. Sturm.
All around il was a rough day for DR..
Friedman and his commercialiZer Moritz
Eisner. In the first place. DR.. Sturm
made good his threat to sue friedman,
as told in yesterdays Tribune by filing
two suits against him. each for 100000.
one was for per cent commission, which
Sturm alleged was due him In return for
his aid In getting the Eisner interests 10
close a contract with friedman by
which he expects to make $4,000. The
other action is for services which Sturm
alleges he gave TO Friedman from March
Il TO April 20.
Or. friedman and Mr. Eisner hast
encd 10 Carl L. Schurz. who represented
the germ doctor in putting the 100000
deal through. But there again a friend
failed them. Mr.. Schurz advised them TO
get another lawyer.
Den es Sturm Has Cultures.
By nightfall they had another attorney.
He counseled dignified silence on DR..
Friedmann's part. In fact, he urged so
much silence that he refused to permit
his own name TO be divulged. The only
thing for publication coming from the
Friedman Esner camp was a pair OF
typewrtten statements. one as quoted
above, the other, somewhat staccato IN
STYLE, as follows:
II never gave to Dr. Sturm any of my
vaccine or cultures. lie never had any
access to them. He never was present
when prepared my vaccine. ! never told
him or showed him how il is prepared.
He has no right nor authority, nor ever
had any, to use my remedy or my name
DR.. Sturm charged that Or. Fried
mann made $500 or 5000 in ten days
from his charges for inoculating patients
in Rhode Island, and that physicians
representing Governor Pothier, Of that
state, were disguised at his avarice.'
Dr. Arthur Friedman. brother of the
Berlin doctor who has been on the outs
with him for some time, confirmed Dr..
Sturm's assertion that he was In pos
session of the secret.
Another former friend TO turn against
Friedman yesterday was DR.. Max
Landesman. director OF the Peoples Hos
pital, and the original Friedman man
in this country. lie said he had inocu-
lated a woman with an Injection of DR..
Piorkowski's brand of germs. which he
had bought from DR.. Held in Pittsburgh.
Piorkowskis representative in this coun-
try. lie had tried to get the Friedman
preparation from Esner, but had been
refused. he said.
But II is all the same TO me- he said
last night; they are all from the turtle.
| have fifty patients waiting for treat
ments who have deposited fees of about
$50 each. / had intended to turn them
over TO the Eisner concern. but they will
20 to the Piorkowski people now"
II was reported yesterday that the first
friedman institute for the treatment of
tuberculosis would be at No. SIS West
End avenue. The house at that number
is on the southeast corner Of l03d street.
it is four story and basement building.
Mrs Lillian Sims is the owner, and until
yesterday she and her husband, DR.. II.
Marion Sims, occupied It. The building
is in a neighborhood or costly apartment
houses, and the people of the vicinity
are not at all pleased at the reported
coming of the Friedman institute. 1t Is
said that a protest will be made to the
Board Of Health. The work of preparing
the house for its new use is said to have
been begun