Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — NO HOPE FOR AUGUST. [ARTICLE]

NO HOPE FOR AUGUST.

Former Rensselaer Saloonkeeper v* a Hopeless Paralytic. Mrs. August Rosenbaum returned from Indianapolis Wednesday morning with her husband, who has been taking treatment in a sanitarium there for the past few weeks. The doctors there first thought they could cure him, we understand, and offered to effect a cure for $250. Mrs. Rosenbaum deposited this amount conditioned that it should be theirs if a cure was effected, otherwise to be returned to her, it is said. After treating him a few weeks it was found that there was no hope of effecting a cure, and he was brought back to Rensselaer Wednesday and taken at once to where the Rosenbaum family are now living, up in the Gifford district. It took three men to carry the unfortunate man fronrthe train, he being perfectly helpless and even un-> able to speak. Those who remember Mr. Rosenbaum when he was conducting a saloon in Rensselaer a few years ago, a big, strong 250 'pound man, the picture of health, would not recognize him in the paralytic wreck of a human being that he now is. His case is indeed a pitiable one.