The Irish standard., 1914-12-05
ENVOKES AID Of COURT
FOR DYING WOMAN
Catholic Priest at Buffalo, N. Y,
Denied Admittance to Dying
Woman by her Non-Cath-
Ollie Husband.
Relatives of Woman Invoke Aid
Of Courts to Admit Priest
to Administer Last
Rites

a deliberate attempt to interfere with
religious liberty which occurred in
Buffalo within the last fortnight, may
be quoted this clause of the Constitu-
ton of the state of New York: "The
free exercise and enjoyment of relig-
ious profession and worship, without
discrimination, shall forever be allow
ed in this state to all mankind"
BY fragrant disregard of the states
ruling, and also by acting according to
the old Puritan law that wife is the
,chattel of her husband and he as such
has the right to forbid her that which
she may desire, Lorenzo Dusel, No. 1913
Carlton street, has placed himself on
public record as being in opposition to
the laws of the country and as having
conducted himself along those tyran-
meal lines which American manhood
has relegated to the days of masters
and slaves, says the Catholic Union
and Times.
Because the Dusel matter, which,
happily for the salvation of the i'm.
mortal soul of the woman concerned,
ended as Providence ordained, has
been garbled and been juggled in its
Interpretation through the public
press, the Catholic Union and Times
sent it's representative to ascertain the
exact truth in the incident from those
Immediately concerned, the brother of
the dead woman, Bernard Rebescher,
and Mrs. Rogenbeck, No. $40 Carlton
street, a woman neighbor who has
lived next door to the deceased for the
last eleven years and enjoyed the init
macy of close friendship. 50
In printing an account of the funeral
of Mrs. Rose Rebescher-Dusel, which
took place on November Is from the
First German Baptist church, Rev. B.
A. Schmidt officiating, daily paper
says:
"The family came into public notice
recently through proceeding to en-
Join the husband from interfering
with the wife in her alleged desire to
rejoin the Roman Catholic church
which she abandoned when she mar
ried. An injunction was issued by the
court on affidavits that the husband
so interfered. Subsequently the in.
junction was dissolved by stipulation
between the lawyers representing both
sides, but under protection of the
court, a priest visited Mrs. Dusel on
fer deathbed. The attorney for Mr..
Dusel, Joseph Roemhild, Jr., subse.
quently made statement to the press
that Mrs. Dusel had been a member
of the Baptist church for twenty years
and had no desire to change No cere.
mony of any sort had been performed
by the priest who saw Mrs. Dusel, he
stated.
Answering this, Louis Braulein,
lawyer for Mrs. Dusel's relatives who
had secured the injunction. sent this
letter to the Express:
I'm your paper of November II Mr..
Joseph Roemhild, Jr., says in refer
ence to the case Of Dusel vs.. Dusel:
Mrs. Dusel was not confessed, nor was
any ceremony performed. She re.
fused to talk to the priest This is a
misstatement. The Rev. Ferdinand
Kolb of st. Boniface church saw Mrs.
Dusel and talked to her, heard con-
fession, gave dissolution and anointed
her. These facts are not denied in
affidavit
Mr.. Rebescher's Statement.
II would also have had recourse to
the law to prevent my sisters remains
being carried into n-Catholic
church and laid in unconsecrated
ground" said Mr.. Rebescher, when
speaking to Union and Times repre-.
sentative, "were it not that Father
Kolb babe me rest satisfied. He told
me that as a Catholic knew 1t mat
tered little where the body lay, pro-
vided the soul had been made ready
to meet it's God, though naturally it il
a consolation to have the ashes Of