| Show I 1 I A singular met haa of bi T A ped peculiar uliar case of poisoning by a physician was that of dr stephen stephe n eotvos in hungary about twenty five years ago eotvos undertook to hasten the death of patients whose cases he considered hopeless by putting tb them out of their mis misery sery ss as he termed it wi with th fatal drugs he encountered no opposition to his hia peculiar methods of belie benevolence VO while he practiced them on oa peo of no particular standing but when the doctor hastened the death of a well known land la rid proprietor named who was slowly dying of cancer the relatives of the dead man presented a violent protest arid and demanded the prosecution of eotvos the physician physician c declared lec lared on trial he was actuated by humane motives and had bad merely eased the journey of his victims victim to the inevitable goal this defense was waa not accepted by the court eol eotvos vos was acquitted of malice but found guilty 0 of f homicide without malice and sentenced to a long iong term of imprisonment pittsburg leader |
