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MEDICAL MEN DECRY JUSTICE OF
TAKING HUMAN LIFE FOR PITY
PARIS, April 29.—Medical men and scientists of France unequivocally
decry the justice of taking human life for pity. They are taking a strong
stand in the controversy that has arisen here as the result of Mile. Uminska,
the pretty Polish actress, who killed her sweetheart at his request, to de
liver him from suffering as he awaited inevitable death. The dramatic
trial and immediate verdict of the jury absolving the girl of all guilt was
a dangerous precedent for society, medical men say, and in support of their
theory they cite a series of similar crimes as that committed by Mile. Umin
ska, which have subsequently occurred in France, Italy, England and the
United States. They declare these
crimes were in a measure incited by
the Paris judgment.
The Uminska case attracted wide
spread attention. For many long and
weary months the girl had nursed her
sweetheart, first in Poland and later
here, where she brought him for an
operation. Doctors pronounced his
malady as incurable and hopeless.
There waa no question as to the girl’s
love and devotion. Reduced to pov
erty and want, she remained at his
side. His sufferings became unbear
able an<f he pleaded with her to take
his life. She was torn with love and
pity by seeing his intense suffering.
One day she took his army revolver
and shot him through the mouth. She
at once surrendered to the police and
told her story.
An Object of Pity.
At the trial for murder she was an
object of pity and the entire court,
including the prosecution, sympathiz
ed with her. “This is an unpleasant
duty that I am called upon to per
form,” said the prosecutor, “but the
law must take its course.”
“Let her go so that she may place
flowers on the grave of her beloved,”
pleaded M. Henri Robert, famous law
yer, at the close of an impassioned
address tq the jury. They reached the
decision on the first ballot and their
verdict was popular.
A few days later the police were
confronted with a similar case. A
young girl appeared to say she had
shot and killed her invalid sister,
who had no chance of recovery and
was in great agony. The sufferer
asked her sister to use their last
money to purchase a revolver and
release her from pain.
“Murder is always murder,” said
Dr. Raoul Blondel, head of the Paris
hospitals, in commenting upon the
Uminska verdict, in an exclusive in
terview', “at the risk of hurting the
feelings of many sensible people
who applauded it.
“The important thing is the lesson
of this case,” he said. “The gesture
is not new. We had numerous exam
ples of it during the war. On many
torpedoed ships, w'hich were sinking,
there were heard* according to sur
vivors, revolver shots which meant
the supreme service between com
rades wrho did not wish to drown.
But the very existence of these sur
vivors establishes the fact that these
gestures were too hasty.
“I would have condemned this wo
man,” he said, when the question
was put to him, “to the least possible
| punishment and pardoned her the
same evening. I would not have been
a party to proclaiming that one has
the right to commit murder and it
seems to me that all doctors must
agree with me. A murderer is al
ways a murderer and only a legiti
mate defense ought to excuse him.”
Dr. Blondel thought the harm lay
in the manner in which the question
is put to the jury. He suggested
instead of the single direct question
of the guilt or innocence of the pris
oner, three questoins be put to the
jury: 1—Has the evidence estab
lished beyond doubt that A killed
B voluntarily: 2—Was the act pre
meditated? 3—Do there exist reasons
for excusing the act?
“In this way the voluntary mur
derer will always be punished, and
his punishment may be made pro
portionate to his culpability, judged
from a moral point of view, and the
degree of responsibility. But accord
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ing to our judicial habits, the mur
der may pass as though it never oc
curred, although there is a corpse,
aud perhaps a widow and orphans.
Sets Bad Example.
“There is a sort of regretable tra
dition founded on repeated examples
by which an unwritten law has de
veloped which makes certain illegal
actions immune from punishment.
Tomorrow, perhaps, you will have
an old man who repeatedly expressed
the wish to die, killed by an im
patient heir who will swear that he
committed the act because he was
begged to do so, or we shall have a
husband w'ho gets rid of an invalid
wife and then organizes a little com
edy to cover hie guilt.
“We doctors, who know of the
suffering that precedes death, will
never admit the right to kill, even
though we are in a position to put
an end to suffering without any sus
picion falling up us. But it is
never absolutely certain that a pa
tient is going to die. There is al
ways that glimmer of hope. For in
stance, suppose a patient was at the
next twenty-four hours science may
discover a new and marvelous cura?
“Furthermore, it is madness to kill
to relieve suffering because a doctor
has always at his disposal drugs
! which can stop suffering, even if he
has to resort to increasing doses.
This is excusable and humane, and
during the careful treatment the
miracle of new' life may occur. No
doctor w'ill ever close the door to the
miracle.
“That is why we say that it is a
dangerous judicial doctrine to de
clare that the taking of human life
is justified, no matter what the cir
cumstances. I would have preferred
to see our admirable Henri Robert
obtain th acquittal of his pitiable
client on the ground that her nerves
had broken, that she was crazed by
sorrow and acted on the impulse of
an unbalanced mind.” .
Peter Menth, 84, famed in Austria
and Germany as the world’s best boot
and shoemaker, who died recently,
had memorized 20 volumes of poetry.
Frank Morse of Davenport. Ia., was
robbed by a- bandit who also made
him take off and turn over his new'
pair of shoes.
Sentence of W. P. Eagan, formerly
of the internal revenue bureau for
bribery in a liquor deal, was confirm
ed by the court of appeals. He gets
one year and a $500 fine.
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