Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-10-29
BURLING TQNIANJJ
TELL OF CURES BY
TIVE QXYPATHDR"
Many Dispositions of Witnesses
from Other Parts of the
Country Are Read in
Trial of Buffalo Man.

Rutland. oct 2S.-IIour after hour to-
lay in the United States district court IN
his city the jury listened to the readlhS
" counsel of dispositions Of witnesses Tor
he respondent, which were in the nature
IF testimonials of persons who claimed TO
,ave been cured of all manner of ailments
" the use of an oxypathor This was IN
connection with the trial of Elvard l."
Moses of Buffalo n Y, who Is under IN
dictment forusnG the mails for fraudulent
purposes, the government claiming that
the oxypathor. a mechanical device, con-
corning which he mailed literature and
letters. is fake.
While the respondent Is not YER
monter the case is of interest in this
State because the specific transactions
charged in the indictment the sending of
TWO letters to Miss NJ. Agnes Wolcott OF
Jamaica, took place in Normot and tha
concerns State agent Harry j. Preston o.
burlington. is under Indictment The dis
position of Preston will depend upon the
outcome of the present trial
More Burlington peopl" were called
into the oxypathor case MS witnesses
to-day. testifyine for the respondent.
John c. Pierce said that he had been
cured of rheumatism in three months
after having tried regular doctoring
in vain He had only slight recur-
renee Of his trouble Mrs. Iva NJ. BEN
nett testified to reduction of a huge
abdominal swelling and of relief a
few minutes after application for an
acute throat trouble. DIR. Louis
Hazen verified their symptoms and
recited cures he had made. Cross
examination disclosed that he was a
former partner of Harry j. Preston,
now under indictment, and that he
had been dropped from the Burlington
clinical club for unprofessional con-
duct DR.. Charles s. Caverly of the
state board of health and Drs. Schuy-
Ter w Hammond and William stick
ney of this city are listening to the
evidence and will probably he called
in rebuttal by the government
1t was shown in some of the dispositions
that the machines used b,iou-ed to
friends or relatives of the pa ITS, and
in other cases that machine ".'o loaned
by the company on trial Among the
deposltions the following persons report
ed cures the troubles noted:
Edward w. Rowlands of Plymouth, Pa,
barber. eye twtching, one treatment
f.dltn NJ. BuSnWell OF scranton, H.
nurse chronic bronchial cough and neuri-
tbs; Rose NJ Mas~engill of Wilkes-Ba
Pa, gall stones, herself, hoy of whoOpint
cough father of rheumatism Bertha NJ
Gidden of Wilkes Barre, Pa. apoplexS
after doctors had given her up; Mrs
Cora Hazelton of Wilkes Barre, neurti:
after consulting six specialists without
result: Mrs Nellie Winters of Mill City
Pa, gastric dyspepsia after ten years Of
unsuccessful doctorng, considered oxypa
Cooper of Shickshinny, Pa, Methodist
acute appendicitis and pcritonitis; Al
dorman ]. Edward traub Of Easton, Pa.
high blood pressure; Harry \. Bryant o,
Easton, Pa, constipation and acute ner
vous attacks; Florence f. Thompson OF
Washington, u. G., Brights disease
Catherine NJ Franklin Of Washington
nflammato rheumatism and catarrh OF
stomach; Anna Burke of Washington
Bright's disease Ashmore p. Patterson
Of Swal thmore Pa, gall stones; Irver
Smith of Philadelphia. rheumatism; Car
kauzmann of Amber, Pa, rheumatism
after % years suffering; Samuel Morton
of Atlantic City, n. j., gall stones, thu
stones put in evidence; Francis Niece
Of Philadelphia, child, inflammation,
Adelphia, music teacher, rheumatism
Mrs. Anna Strobell of Rutledge, Pa.
eczema; husband. acute appendicitis,