Evening journal., 1917-11-13
POSONS BABY BY
DOCTORS ADVICE
Chicago Mother is Executing
Death Sentence Prescribed
By DR.. HaiSelden
TO BE RID OF
AN IMBECILE

CHICAGO, Nov. ia young mother
Rugged her baby to her breast. sobbcd
as a gasping breath racked the chllds
slight frame and then poured from a
bottle q dose Of medicine and gave IL
10 the baby
As she did so she broke dawn com
pletely.
For the drug she gave was not such
as other mothers have glven--a sooth-
Ing curative for the ailments Of child
hood-but a death potion" which
brought just one day nearer to a close
a little life, hopeless from the Nrst.
which is being gradually snuffed out
under the direction Of DR.. Harry j.
Hsselden, so that its possessor may
not grow up a helpless imbecile, d
charge upon the community.
This Is believed to nave Deen the
FIRST time that a physician deliberately
and openly has pronounced the death
sentence on child who otherwise
would live and left IL 60 a mother 10
carry out the sentence
Home in q Tenement.
The mother. who daily administers
the deadly potion, that in two or three
months, Will have It's final effect, is
Mrs. Pauline Hodzima, WI g. lives IN a
tenment IN the rear or iis North May
street The child is her second son,
Paul. 2ih years old. Her husband, Ste
phen Hodzlma, an employe Of the Au-
tomato Electric Company, earns but
Si7 a week and cannot procure the
services Of the nurses and specialists
who might make the life OF the child
bearable II not useful.
Hence the death sentence.
you see" Mrs. Hodzima said to-
dav. how hard II Is for him IL
breathe. He's well formed o.nerNvise
nal would be all right were It not
for the awful hard breathing. Oh,
10 q my BABY. but ! can't bear TO see
him suffer. have been giving him
the medicine prescribed by Or. Haisel-
den, and have made up my mind II is
for the best.
Il would like to keep him. and II
nearly breaks my heart 10 think OF his
gong. but don't want him 10 be a
burden 10 himself always suffering In
have nothing but sleepless nights since
he was born. He cries continually anC
Is unable TO sit up II is seldom thai
ever get 10 sleep before 3 o'clock "
the morning.
Medical Circles Stirred.
, DR.. Haiseldens' new baby problem
, has stirred the medical profession. Fol
, lowing his announcement that he wa
treating baby. with its parents con
/ sent, so that the child might die peace
! fully in a few weeks and not live
I hopeless idiot. physicians and SUI
e geons yesterday expressed violent di:
approval
3 "The medical fraternity never wi
= accept or approve such practice" D
81 lC Z. Humizton. president Of the Oh
= csgo Medical Association, said yeste
4 day: Our association. OF course. wi
I take no action in this matter becaus
= Dr. Haiselden no longer is a membe
/ and any action designed TO prever
( such practices must come from othe
1 sources"
b. Or. Haiseldens course is sbsolutel
uniustinable." asserted Or. A.
O'Neill, former head Of the association
I and one Of the Leading members Of q,
! American Medical Ss-cisty. There ar
4 ways In which pain can be alleviate
, without causing the death OF the sui
ferer. No physician has tile right I
. CAUSE death or, for that matter, to r.
! fuse 10 prevent death under any eli
E cumstances.
o "Dr Haiseldens method. II he ha
e been quoted correctly, Is nothing moi
4 than taking human life in order I
: make death less painful. It cannot /
!. tolerated by right thinking physicians