The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-18
Chief COroner's Physician
Approves of the Action of
Attending Doctor
WOULD HAVE BEEN
CRIPPLE AND IMBECUE
mother Did Not Wish to Have an
operation Performed to Prolong Life
coroner Intimated Trial for Grim
lnal Negligence Might Take Place

CHICAGO, Nov. 1S-Complete vim
alcauon OF Dir. Harry j. HaiseIden tho
surgeon who declined to operate on the
detective Bollinger baby and thus save
Its life, will be recommended to tho
coroner jury which is to conduc+ an
inquest today.
Inc recommendation for vindication
Wll be made by DR.. Henry @ Rein
mart, chief coroner's physician Who
conducted post mortem on the siv-
day Old infant an hour after its death
In the German-American hospital last
night III last
Coroner Hoffman had indicated that
unless the post mortem proved the child
mental defective DR.. Haiselden MIGHT
De tried for criminal negligence.
Ny examination shows thar +ba
pfooapliltles are strong that the child
would have been a mental defective !,
Dr. Relnhart said today 1t would have
oeen paralytie all its life. Nv own
opinion IS that Dr.. Haiselden was riobt
III not allowing the baby to live. :,
Its life, Dr. H. J. Haiselden. tbe ar
tending physician, said might have been
saved by an operation, but this he did
not feel justified in performing. The
partial paralysis and the malformations
ne sald, were SO great a bar to hanni
ness or attainment that he did not feeI
Justlned N saving the baby from the
death which nature ordained.
God grant, : prayed Miss Catherine
walsh OF the Roman Catholic church of
St. Ann de Brighton, as she cbristene5
the baby John Boiling last night inst
prior to its death. "that this cbiid;s
NE shall not have been lived in vain :,
John Dill Robertson, health commis.
sloner, said he would delay the issue Of
burial certificate until all legal re-
qWrements in the case were met.
State Attorney Hoyne said pri-
vately that he approved the physician :
refusal TO act in the case. Officially.
since there appeared basis for legal
action, he would express no opinion.
Dr George j. Lipschulch, a member
of the legislature, announced that he
would appear before the state board of
health and ask that Dr. Haiselden ! IL
cense to practice medicine be taken
from him.
DR.. Haiselden in discussing his action
said last night:
Il rest with my conscience. There
was no chance that life would brine
tins child anything better than an ami
NAL existence and imbecilitv. | had
no right to condemn it to that. The
Power which sent it here doomed to die
has taken it back | believe | have
done the child, its parents, who agree
with me, and the race a favor in talk
ing the course | did -
The mother of the child, knowing
that it would always be defective. did
not wish to have an operation perform
ed.
= 1t is not heartless of me- Mrs.
Bollinger said. q love the little de-
formed one as l love my three other
healthy children. But the doctor told
me it would be, perhaps. an imbecile.
criminal. Left TO itself it has no
chance to live | consented to let Ma
ture take its course. No one need to
think me an unnatural mother. This
baby, if allowed to live, would be a
burden to itself. It's life would be bar
rem, useless. 1t is one of Nature 5
blunders. | am willing Nature should
correct its error by my baby's death,
| am satisfied | am doing right.