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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1925
WERE
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THEY KILLED
LOVED ONES
OUT OF PITY
|| Murder Those That They Love
Because They Suffer From
Dread Disease
I LITTLETON, Col., Nov U._
When the flame of life is flickering
in the cold sweep of the black wind
from the shoreless darkness outside
I the world—is a friend or relative
i ever justified in blowing it out com
, pletely and giving it a rest from its
| useless struggles? ,
Is there such a thing as merciful
1 murder? And, if there is, when is
H one jutsified, if ever, in committing
I *F? ~
These questions are raised by the
■ trial here of Dr. Harold Elmer Blaz
er on a charge of murdering his
| daughter Hazel.
Dr. Blazer, admitting that he end
| ed the girl’s life, defends his oct.
Hazel Blazer was about 30. She
ht.d suffered an attack of spinal men
ingitis in her youth and it left her a
hopeless crippl,. She weighed
scarcely ninety pounds. She could
not cloth e herself, could not walk or
|| even sit up—could only get exercise
when she wos placed on the floor and
» allowed to roll around.
She was, in short, a burden to her
g® self ad her relatives. That is admit-
E tec by state and defense. The only
Bb que tion to be decided is whether Dr,
I Blazer’s act was a crime or an act
' of mercy.
Dr. Blazer is not the first to take
£ a life ini this manner.
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Left, Mlle. Stanislaw Uminska. Center, Dr. Haroid Blazer. Right, Dr. Haiselden
tress, Mlle Stanislaw Uminska, shot
and k ; lled her fiance, Jeon Zinowski
in Paris. Zinowski was slowly dying
of cancer.
“I killed him through mercy and
F I for ms ’ ffering,” she told the
c< , rt. “Often he begged me to put
r i rid to his mcitydom,”
It took the jury jjist three minutes
to acquit her. No question of her
sincerity was raised by the prosecu
tion, which contented itself with
holding that the taking of o human
life was never justified.
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Then, shortly afterward, another
young Parisian, Anno Levasseur, a
dressmaker, killed her sister to re
lieve her suffer rings from a disease
the doctors had pronounced in
curable. She, too, was heeded when
she pleaded that she had kkilled
through love.
In America, too, such cases ore not
unknown. Not a great while after
the two trials in Paris an lowan
named Will Dunn, aged 40, a West
Point graduate and World War hero,
killed his aged father and mother
and ended his own life. In a note he
explained that both were incurably
ill and suffering greatly and that he
had done it “for their cwr good.” To
prove his love for them he committed
suicide, his note added, concluding
“I’m willing to sacrifice my own life
for them.”
Then, shortly after thot, an Eng
lish vicar, Rev. W. G. C. Bettison,
shot himself in an attempt at suicide.
Instead of inflicting a fatal wound,
however, he merely mangled his face
and fell on the floor of his study in
great agony. His sister, Miss Doro
thy Bettison, found him tnus. bhe
heeded his pleas to be put ut of his
agony, and shot him to death.
Butu thte case that aroused the
most attention of aP was slightlty
different than these, it involved the
late Dr. Harry J. Haisekb < f Chica
go and the infrant child of a family
named Bollinger. .■ «t WMf
The baby was defective from birth
It wos hopelessly crippled m.d imbe
eille, with no prospect that it ever
could be made norma.. Among its
many physical defects was one that
would cause it to die speedily unless
an operation were performed.
Dr. Haiselden told the parents that
he could operote and save the child’s
life, but that it would always be a
cripple and very likely would be an
idiot as well. Should he operatte or
let it die?
They asked His advice. He urged
that the baby be allowed to die. They
consented ond it did.
A storm of public comment poured
in, some favorable and some unfav
orable. A coroner’s jury found the
doctor justified, but the Chicago
Medical Society forced him out of its
membership.
Doctors generally ore strongly
against the taking of life to end suf
fering. As some doctor remarked
after the two Paris cases:
“It is never absolutely certain that
a patient is going to die. Suppose o
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i patient is at the point of death from
tuberculosis; low Is the doctor to
! know t 1 j ( . within the next twenty-
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sis will n. . discovered?”
That seems to express the atti
tutde of the medical professitn.
And the ' >neral public? The only
; way to judge its attitude is to note
i that these “pity murders” ore seldom
11 put : . ned. A> i ;’ : '-t of not guilty is
, usua.ly returned.
Son.i men have suggested that the
| law be amended to make it legal to
kill to end fferings. Others, how
ever have "tainted out that many
i crimse could be hidden under this
1 mask-—that ' ' 4 ' o'd man, for ex-
i ample, could be removed by
i designing relat.vei, who wished to in
herit his fortune, or that an unscrup
ulous husband could dispose of an
I invalid wife without risking punish-
■ ment.
And .here the matter stands.
Is nr. der ever justified? Was Dr.
Blozer right in killing his daughter?
The jury will peturn its verdict in
a few days. But, which ever way it
decides, rcoicty will still go on rying
tto settie '’.is most puzzling case of
ethics.
Sometimes we get so mad we think
anticipation is about all there is to
almost anything.
Going to work isn’t as good a
habit as working after you get there.
Cu < -. .
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Wicker and
daughter, Miss Sallie, spent Friday
afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Watson
Wickekr at Oglethorpe.
Evans and Burll Shockley, of New
Smyrno, Fla., spent the week-end
here with Gus and Lester Kitchen.
Our community was Well repre
esnted at the Macon County Fair at
Montezuma last week.
.1. A. Smith, made a business trip
to Americus Monday,
Mrs. R. H. Stubbs, of Thaelan,
spent Wednesday here with her
mother, Mrs. A. J. Pennington.
•heT MrsA. mot,r
Miss Janilu Hollowoy, of A and M.
College, Americus, spent th e week
end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
K. ,1. Holloway.
George Wicker, and Edgar Coker
were looking after business interests
in Americus Saturday.
Mr.‘and Mrs. Monroe Wicker and
Miss Sallie Wicker joined Mr. and
Mrs. Dovid Wicker at I.across and
motored to Marshallville Sunday and
were spend-the-day guests of Mr.
ami Mrs. .lames Maxey.
•James Tolen, Will Rasberry and
Rob Holloway made a business trip
to Oglethorpe Thursday afternoon.
•less Kitchens, of Macon spent a
I lew days last week with hjs mother,
Mrs. Seab Kitchens.
I Misses Mory Edgar Hart, of Ella
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Robert Stubbs, of Albany* and J. M.
Little, Albany, spent Sunday after
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Henry S. Brooks spent the Week
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