The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-26
Chicago Infant, Born a Grip
pie, Dies of Inattention at
Experts Request.
MOTHER LOVED BABE,
BUT is GLAD IT DIED
Jury, Composed of Doctors, Holds
Detectives Should be De-
prived of Life.

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defective. DR.. Harry J. Haiselden was
exonerated from blame for deliberate
ly permitting the death of Baby Boil
lnger, after he decided that the child
if allowed to I've, would be doomed to
life of misery and usefulness.
Yet while completely generating
the physician, the jury did not agree
with him in this specific Bollinger
case, holding that the infant was
not sufficiently defective to Justify its
condemnation to death
The right of society to forfeit the
life of defective baby, although rec
ognized by the jury, carries with it
the extreme care that there should al
ways be consultation of physicians
before defective is permitted to die.
This was the contention of the jury.
Baby Bollinger was born in the
German-American Hospital severa!
days ago. When it was discovered that
!
and body, DR.. Haiselden, the attend
ing phys elan, decided the baby should
be permitted to die. He declined to
put the new born to death by admin
istering an opiate because that would
have made him liable to prosecution.
He instructed the nurses to put the
: h. -
warm while its life gradually ebbed
away The child's mother was stricken
with typhoid fever a few weeks ago
and was Just recovering when the child
was born.
Miss Catherin Walsh, q nurse, VINO
christened the baby John Boi'inger,
lowered near the infants c;-"d!e while
interneS guarded against Ter threa.-
ened attempt to kidnap the child and
have an operation performed on it.
which, she declared, would hava saved
its life.
The baby died from lack Of attcn-
ton at 10 o'clock Wednesday night.
The news of the baby's death was
broken to the mother by Miss Beulah
Freed, head nurse of the hospital.
Are you quite strong?" asked Miss
Freed The woman nodded. Miss
Freed took pale hand in hers. The
baby is dead" whispered the nurse.
Mrs BoIlingcr sighed and relaxed into
the depth of her pillow. Her eyes
closed and she smiled.
I'm so glad" she said. I'm glad
that my baby is dead. This is the mo-
ment | have been waiting for. | know
that the little one will not have to
suffer through lifetime, crippled in
body and mind.
Il loved my baby, of course. Any
mother would have loved her baby, nc
matter how terribly nature had twsit-
ed its little body. | loved it so much
that l wanted it to die and be at
rest.
"Now that the time has come and
lnt DdDi HdS SOllt W ItSt IOiCNIi' L
feel that l have done the greatest
thing a mother could have done.
"Have | not given up my baby?
Have not allowed it to be taken from
ME that it might not suffer
Dr. Haiselden today declared that
he was not worried by the criticism
that had been hcaped upon him from
all parts OF the country for permitting
the Bollinger baby to die when he
could probably have spared its life.
"The best course was chosen" he
said. Il feel Just as | did when we
made the decision not to perform the
operation that would have saved the
child's life. The only crime in cOnnec-
ton with such case would be the
concealment of the facts. In this case
we made everything public. All was
open and above board, and | believe
firmly that my action was lustifiable.
my action couldn't be generally
practiced Nature really undid the
| Nofh she LIdu uote. we were OllS IilC
passive agents"
The big problem which the case Of
the Bollingers baby propounded was
widely discussed in Chicago today.
Arguments were advanced in which
DIR. H. j. Haiselden was charged with
attempting to pass final Judgment of
life or death sentence upon the new
born. Others declared they saw in the
case of the Bollinger baby visions OF
an improved race in which detectives
and eriples will be rare. Still others
drclared the action of the hospital
staff was murder.
+. Dr.. Haiseldeu said BE did not fear an