Article October 12, 1899 Issue

End of the Kinter Case

Evening Times

Federal Grand Jury at Buffalo Refused to Indict.

The September term of the United States Federal Court came to a sudden close this morning after the indictments of the grand jury had been submitted to his honor, Justice Alfred Coxe. The next term will be held in November at Auburn.

The most important case that the jury had to consider was the much talked of Kinter-Saunders Christian Science case. It is still fresh in the minds of Buffalonians. Much interest was manifested in the hearing which resulted in the holding of George H. Kinter, the Christian Scientist, and James Saunders, by United States Commissioner Robinson. They were charged with causing the death of a son of Saunders named Ralph, at Fort Porter, in neglecting to summon medical aid. The child had been sick for some days with pneumonia and was not, it is alleged, given medicine that would in all probability have cured him. All he received was Christian Scientist attendance. The authorities soon learned of the case and ordered the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Kinter and Mr. and Mrs. Saunders. The quartette was before Commissioner Robinson and many prominent Buffalonians were brought to testify in the case. Upon the evidence turned in the commissioner released the women and held the men for the grand jury of the Federal Court. This morning the jury reported that no bill had been found against Kinter and Saunders. The reason given is that the case does not come under the statutes of the Federal laws and that it is only within the State's jurisdiction to indict. Attorney Charles Brown of the District Attorney's office informed a Times reporter to that effect this morning. — Evening Times, Buffalo, N. Y.

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