The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-14
Parsons Physician Arraigned
on Charge of immortality.
The Accusation Is Made by His
Divorced Wife.
PRETTY NURSE IN The CASE
Accuser Says She Furnished
Means for His Education.
Purpose Is to Have His Physi-
clans License Revoked.

Before the state board of medical
examiners in Topeka today, DR.. Julius
Rotter. Parsons physician, is seeking
to maintain his standing among doc
tors against charges preferred against
him by the woman who, it is said,
made it possible for him to study
medicine. Mrs. Julius Rotter, who re-
Gently secured divorce from the Par
sons doctor appeared before the ex-
aminers this morning to offer testi-
mony by which she expects to reduce
him from the social position to which
she claims she raised him.
Mrs. ROtter who came here today
q from St. Louis is charging DR.. Rotter
with immortality, alleging improper re-
lations with Miss Norma Tolbert, for
mer st. Louis nurse, but now said to
be residing in Parsons. Miss Tolbert,
d. it is said, is in the employ of the Par
sons physician. She did not appear
before the examiners this morning.
Nainly attempting to cope with
questions fired at her by her former
husbands attorney. Assistant Attorney
General w. p. Montgomery, and mem
bers of the examining board, Mrs.
Rotter was led to explain what she
termed immortality. Her conception
of the term appeared to be hazy but
took in, she was quite certain, his
manner of treating her.
Says He Pushed Her.
She testified that at one time the
physician pushed her against-l oalus-
trade in their house and she struck
he- head forcibly against it.
''Do you consider this an evidence
of immorality?" she was asked.
For several minutes she pondered
over the question. Then answered il
the affirmative.
DO YOU know whether DIR. Rioters
criminally intimate?" Mr.. Montgomery,
appearing for the state, demanded.
The question apparently was beyond
the woman's comprehension ana sew
eta: members o. the committee at
tempted to put it before her in sim
pier for.r.
Apparently, finally understanding
the point the woman answered "Y es-
Then began an effort to determine Just
what she would consider criminal in
timacy.
The charges preferred against the
doctor today are the climax of his
marital difficulties since leaving MS
wife. Three years ago Doctor Rotter
was tried in st. Louis for deserving
Mrs. Rotter. At that time his marital
difficulties were aired" in court.
Story of the Past.
Fifteen years ago. it is reported,
Julius Rotter, then a conductor for a
courted Lillian Levy. He won her and
confided to her his ambition to become
a physician and surgeon In sympathy
with his aspirations, Mrs. Rotter went
TO her parents. who since have died,
and secured from them assistance that
would enable her husband to realize
his aspirations. A short time later he
was enrolled in a st. Louis medical
school.
Several years later, Rotter COM
pleted his course and obtained an ap-
pointment as inferno in a st. Louis
hospital. The first year, his services
brought him no financial return. Dur
ing the second year. he was given $25
a month. The following year, 1910,
he obtained a position in the st. Louis
Female hospital, with a remuneratlVe
salary
1t was shortly before his graduation
from the medical school that Rotter' S
marital difficulties commenced They
started, it is alleged, when Mrs. Rotter
learned that her husband had a wife
living. from whom he had not secured
a divorce. He explained to her, how
ever. that he had been led to believe
his first wife, whom he married while
a student in a New York City nigh
school, was dead.
He promised to obtain a divorce and
did so a short time later.
Their home life apparently was hap
py again until June, 1910, when Doc
tor Rotter went to New York city. His
wife followed him there but failed to
find him. Later he went to Parsons
and Miss Tolbert went also.
Out of these complex marriage rela-
tons. the state medical board is at
tempting today to CLEAN the facts upon
which Doctor Rotter's career as a
physician probably depends.
The hearing probably will be COM
pleted today.