Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — DIED WITHOUT A DOCTOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIED WITHOUT A DOCTOR.

Chicano Woman a Victim to Her Belief i in Dowie’a Power of Cure. Mrs. H. Worthington Judd and her baby died at her home in Englewood, 111,, abjuring medical treatment because she and Mr. Judd were Dowie devotees. Dowi.e was called to cure her, but failed. The “Overseer of Zion” was then summoned before the coroner’s jury, and it is said will be made to answer, if possible, for the deaths, as a post-mortem

examination convinced the coroner's physician that medical aid would have saved mother and babe. Dowie’s appearance at the inquest marked his first testimony during his residence in Chicago as to the death of one of his followers. Judd was the first witness, and he recounted a heartless story of the sufferings of his wife. He told" of going back to his bed and resting after he had called up Dowie on the telephone and asked him to pray for his wife. He declared that had his wife asked for a physician he would not have called one. “Would yon have refused the dying request of your wife had she asked that a physician bj summoned?” askdd the coroner of Mr. Judd. “Yes, sir, I would,” was the answer. "1 would have known that she was not in her right mind had she made such a request.” After Judd had finished Dowie took the stand and told his story. He said that when he called at the Judd home he found the woman in a serious condition, but after he had prayed for her she apparently rested comfortably and had passed the critical stage. He then went home, he saidj The undertaker then tol l the rest.

MRS. H. WORTHINGTON JUDD.