The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-11-13
Chicago Mother Is Executing
Death Sentence Prescribed
by DR.. H9iselden.
TO BE RID OF IMBECILE
Medical Fraternity Condemns
Physicians Course-He Got
Parents Consent.

CHICAGO. Nov. IA young mother
hugged her baby to her breast. sobbes
as gasping breath racked the chld's
slight frame and then poured from a
bottle a dose Of medicine and gave 1t 10
the baby.
AS she did so she broke down com.
pletcly.
For the drug she gave was not such
as other mothers have given--a sootn-
ing curative Cor the ailments Of child
hood-bul death potion" whicn
brought just one day nearer to a close Il
little life. hopeless from the first. which
is being gradually and knowingly snuffed
out under the direction OF DR.. Harry J.
Haiselden. SO that its possessor may not
grow up helpless imbectle. q charge
upon the community.
This Is believed to have been the first
time that a physician deliberately and
openly has pronounced the death SEN
tence on a child who otherwise would
live. and left 1t to mother 10 carry out
the sentence.
Home In q Tenement.
The mother. who daily administers tine
deadly potion that In two or three
months will have its final effect. Is Mrs.
Pauline Hodsima. who lives in tens
ment in the rear Of 7IS North May street.
The child 10 her second son, Paul, 3s
years old. Her husband. Stephen
Hodz!ma. an employee OF the Automatic
Electric Company. earns but Sl1 week
and cannot procure the servlces Of the
nurses and specialists who might make
the life OF the child bearable II not use
full
Hence the death sentence.
- Al, = AnSs
"how hard It IL for him to breathe. He's
well formed otherwise and would be all
right were II not for the awful hard
breathing. oh. l love my baby. but
can't bear to see him suffer. have been
giving him the medicine prescribed by
DR. Haiselden. and have made up my
mind it is for the best.
"I would like to keep him. and II
nearly breaks my heart to think OF his
going, but I don't want him to be a
burden to himsef. aways suffering.
have had nothing but sieepless nights
since he was born. He cries continually
and Is unable to sit up. II Is seldom
that ever get to sleep before O'Clock
in the morning
Medical Circles stirred.
DIR. Haiselden's new baby problem has
stirred the medical profession. Follow
| ing his announcement that he was treat
! ing baby. with it's parents consent
/ so that the child might die peacefull.
| in a few eeks and not live hopeless
! idiot, physicians and surgeons to-da!
! expressed violent disapprovai.
The medical fraternity never viii
accept or approve such practice" DR.
C. f. Humiston. president Of the Chi
cago Medical Association. said to-day
Our association, Of course. will TAX
no action In this matter. because Dr.
Haiselden no longer is member an,
any action designed to prevent sucl
practices must come from other sources
"Dr Haiselden's course Is absolutel,
unjustihable." asserted DIR. A. A. O'Neil
former head Of the association and on
Of the leading members Of the American
Medical Society. There are ways Il
which pain can be alleviated withou
causing the death of the sufferer. N
physician has the right to cause deaf
or. for that matter. to refuse to proven
death under any circumstances.
"Dr. Ha!seldep's method, II he ha
been quoted correctly. is nothing NOR
than taking human life in order to max
death less painful. It cannot he tol
Grated by right thinking physicians"