New Britain herald., 1917-11-14
DEATH
 MAY MEAN ARREST
Chicago Coroner Aroused Be- !. cause Of Treatment Given

Chicago. Nov. 14.-Criminal prose- cution loomed for Dr. Harry J. Hail selden yesterday should baby Hod- Kima, whom he placed under a sen- tence of death. die from the medicine now being administered
 The baby, with a deformed skull and suffering from a stricture of the trAchea, is a horrible mite of hu- manity, who would be better off dead, according to the physician. The mother also would benefit if the child should die, as no amount of care and { attention ever will make it other than an idiot, according to the physician. So the mother daily is giving it a medicine which is sapping the. infants life, and within a short time it will die g. painless death.
 Coroner Peter M. Hoffman was in- dignant today and declared that grand jury action would follow should tha baby die. He had recommended to Health Commissioner Robertson, he said, that a committee of physicians be appointed to investigate the case
 Should the child die, I will im-
 
 unless I find a law that gives a phy- sician the authority Dr. Haiselden is appropriating." said the coroner. "He will be forced to explain things to the grand jury. I believe he is exceeding his authority in pronouncing the, death sentence upon the child, even though the parents consent
 pr. Raiselden said:
 II hope Coroner Hoffman does call me before the grand jury. I like to step on the neck of persons of the Coroner Hoffman type, and an action such as he threatens would open up ! the question of a physicians right to help rid the world of abnormals and preserve the normals.
 'If Coroner Hoffman believes hu- man life is so sacred, why does he not take steps to save the normal: Why does he not check the appalling murder of the innocents in Chicago |?
 ''So long as the medical profession is not taking a stronger stand in pre- venting the slaughter of the unborn; so long as they are allowing the mar rying of thousanrs of feeble-minde and diseased; so long as almost any person can run a death-dealing ma chine; so long as boards of education can withhold inexpensive lunches from school children-so long will I con- tinue to preach the gospel of saving the world from the abnormal.
 ':My stand is the stand of a God fearing man.
 Meanwhile, Mrs. Hodzima at her humble home, No. 718 North May street, continues the painless death sentence.
 "Oh, I love my baby, but I cant bear to see him suffer-" she said to- night. "I have been giving him the medicine prescribed by Dr. Haise1den and have made up my mind it is fol the best I would like to keep him and it nearly breaks my heart tc think of him going; but I don't want him to be a burden to himself al. ways suffering. I have had nothing but sleepless nights since he was born.''
 The father said:
 Tt is just a case of saving two lives at the cost of one. For more prisoner in her own home, though no an unwilling one. Her strength ant vitality are gone. Tn caring for { child that is doomed to be an idio she is limiting the days of her life that should be used to bring up ou1 boy who Is strong healthy and bright
 My other son is suffering at th' expense of the baby. He does no receive the attention he should have