Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-29
PHYSICIAN Warned
Of CH|LD'S SLAYER
Says He Told Mother Of Emma
Mack She Should Be Put
in Asylum
URGES CHANGE IN LAW


Had the advice Of her ply sician been
taken. It is declared. Emma Mack would
never have heen in a position to give
the poison tablets TO Ave- wear old Anne
~ n II pnnhrnoh M ai;ar;s, ,,ao
Pine street. said TODAY he mad warned
Mrs. Mack that her daughter was dam
gerous and should be kent under OBJ
scrvation ut all times. He suggested
that the girl be kept At the Philadelphia
General Hospital, he said, but the
mother refused.
The girl spent a comforts able night
at the Arlington police station. where
she is being held until the Coroner's
jury meets tomorrow. 1t is believed
she will be committed on n charge Of
homicide. insanity experts to take i'm
mediate action to have her contircd in
the Hospital for the Insane at Norris.
town.
DR.. Bochroch old today Of his Of
forts to deprive the woman Of her
liberty after the discovery that she was
a paranoiac obsessed with the idea that
persons about her were planning her
unhappinpss.
~ advised Immediately that she be
rlaccd in the observation ward at the
Philadelphia General Hospital for an
cNlCnUcu eNaHlnntlOn. s0ld Dr B0Ch.
roch. THAT was done. But as soon
as the girl chafed nt her confinement
to the ward. her mother took her out
Of the institution.
v., ~
Narhen Mother lhen
=, 1T was then that I warned Mrs.
Mack against allowing her daughter nj
liberty. In my Office the girl threatened
to Kill both her mother and herself.
THE girl was brought TO me for an
examination. | saw that she wss o pa
ranoiac. Her mother told me Of the girl 3
constant fear that the theatrical board.
ing house. which they run. would not
yield enough TO keep them alive.
1T was in vain that the mother rc.
assured her daughter. She was re-
poatcdly threatened by the girl with
death So that both might cscapc the
worlds misery.
"Whilr She was in the philoLclnhio
General Hospital she could have bo mad
no one. But the mother Welded to tbc
girls cntrcatics to be released When
Mrs. Mack Notified mo that sba in
tended taking the girl ovoy litoroliv
begged her not to do SO.
t'She was firm In ber nurnoso bo
ever. and the pirI was tokon ouca,
Mrs. Mack told me sbe in,enJed tar;n,r
her to the country to see If that mioh,
hpIp TO restore the sufferers nsaro 90
mind.
".Neyer 10. her out of vour o;c,,. Co..
single moment. dav or nivbt ~ ,niL
Mrs, Mack. and she nromisod 'o' .n
obey. After thar thcy lrft Tbn noisono
ing of that little Girl came four wea. 6
LATER
DR.. Bochroch was asked IL stems
might not have been taken by some au-
tnorn T., ~ ,nl,'a,h;e n.n .un ,.se =! ,hr S,ri
ns.I,,hi r"onol unsu;,ai Mai" VI 'he rnii'
.'rhS,a ,,.n, So at,i. .
o,,, ,,,,,;,h no,i,l harn o,t m s,"'. u.
.;ri.s "o raionso dosnita ,h I,vn.tm t,t . I'M. i
S go n,onoo. ard Jaranr ~ ~ o,nm .nm. @ sne
rt,b uhom cha "" na," % !" oon.oot ~ !, oae M
n,ind ,ha nh hvsicion ~o"'"e''
p' ..it 10 not ' co ;n r,c,,rJ Ero, -,
in Cermanv" be Continual ..In |"t tbooo 90
norntr;ns cnmn,;ss,ons ~ ol;orists '""rs "rs
,nnointeL hv ,he Ioc.I courts "a nvo,,;no :
nersnms believed to no insane and 20
recommend their commitment m ;nstt
,',,tnns 90 ,hor a-o fn,'nd =, Ia J,nnar .
oms - tho ue,fare Of tho communitv
81 wnuld urge most serlousI,, Inn,
tho civ ~ philodelnhio annoint inc,
sucb a commission here, II thev diG "a
nor cent NJ tho crimes which are nov
heino committed by poranoincs in n,
save stota ~ mind ms tho Nact .ir
n,iob+ hn ovoided "
~ Rorbroch's recommendation fo,
sucb commission comes after wears Of
c,rcri.rro no nrofcssor of nervous III.
ao,ss a, TcmnIc J'nIy.rsitv md non .
r"Ioois, for 81 Josanhs 9 and rho law .
;,h h"sn,,,Is lie is vjsitinr nsv"hiatris,
,ho pii,o Jairbio Cepnrol Ij,cni,,i
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Not to BE Estimated
"Whi(c il is impossible 10 estimate
,be exact number OF paranoiacs at lin
crtv In tho citv and in the co,,ntrv
T. l. ro oyrrcstimoie 10 soy that in ,Lc
j'nitod states there nrc thousanI,
walking the streets in absolute freedom
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