New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-11
Referee Finds Friedmann's
Former Aid in Contempt
of Court.
USED GERMANS CURE,
CALLING 1T HIS OWN
Ansonia House Physicians Re-
gard for Oath Is Small. Ac-
cording to the Report.

DR.. Maurice A. Sturm. house physl-
clan al the Ansonia, and erstwhile ala
Of DR.. Friedrich Franz Friedman Is
in contempt Of the Supreme Court &C
,ording to the findings submitted yes
terday by Wilbur Larremore. who was
Amounted referee in a proceeding De-
run a few months ago by Hays, Kauf-
man & Lindheim. attorneys Tor the
Standard Distributing Company. which
owns the rights to the turtle germ cure
in this country.
DIR Sturm Is not only held TO be
guilty OF contempt. involving fine
equal 10 the plaintiffs costs and ex-
penses. which Will amount to almost
$1,000. but the referee is unsparing In
his denunciation of the physician.
DR.. Sturm said last night that he
would appeal the case If the court ap-
proved the referees findings.
Testimony Called False.
The manufacturers Of the turtle
germs charged Sturm with having used
the Friedman cultures. in violation OF
an Injunction issued against him on
May 10. 1918.
MY conclusion 49," says Mr. Larre-
tInore, that the defendant (Sturm) tes-
tiled falsely as TO all the material
charges.
There is no doubt that defendant
accompanied DR.. Friedman TO hos
pitfalls and to other places where pa
ltients were treated, and that upon at
fleast one occasion DR.. Friedman al
lowed the defendant to inject one
patient at Providence, r. L A dispute
having arisen between Or. Friedman
and the defendant, the defendant was
led to sign the following statement;
"Having to-day made the statement
that 1 have knowledge Of the formula
Of the preparation Of Or. Friedmann's
vaccine, I now of my own free will re-
pudiate that statement as in all re-
spects unwarranted, and 1 fully and
voluntarily say that have no knowl-
edge OF the method Of preparing said
vaccine or OF the ingredients compos-
ing the same
Regard for Oath Doubted.
ut appears that the defendant, after
making the written statement, orally
stated to newspaper reporters, and ne
has stated under oath upon this refer
ence, that the written statement was
untrue. The moral instability Of the
defendant, his disposition to state any
thing as a fact which seems most con-
venient or for HIS interest at the time,
suggests that his attitude as 10 truth
and untruth would not be materially
changed by the circumstance that he
was speaking under oath"
Previous to his break with Fried
mann Sturm obtained in q way that
has never been explained some Of the
turtle germ cultures. He admitted
treating patients with the germs even
before he left the Friedman camp.
After the cure was sold to Eisner, who
organized the Standard Distributing
Company, Sturm boosted that he was
treating patients with the Friedman
cultures. Then the injunction was OBJ
tanned.
According to the testimony before
Mr.. Larremore Stur1n told his patients
that be was giving them the Friedman
treatment. while he publicly announced
that he had discovered turtle serum
OF his own. Stur1n, efter the injuno-
ton, made a deal with a DR.. Mykle-
lstad. Of winston, N. D., by which he
(sturm) received $4,000, guaranteeing
tMyklestad that the germs were Of the
true friedman variety.
Mr.. Larremore makes short work IN
his opinion OF Sturrn's contention that
ne had vaccine OF his own
The defendants claim" no says, "of
having invented a vaccine of his own
was merely a shallow pretenoe. From
all the evidence on this point am of
yppfnion that the so-called 'Sturm vac
cine never existed. and that the de-
fendart continued to use the Fried
MAJ n vaccine after the Injunction, eA
/ concededly. he had been using II be-
fore"