Article September 21, 1899 Issue

Found No Bill

Daily Enterprise

A few weeks ago the Boston morning papers, under flaring headlines, told of the death of a young boy by the name of Hedenberg in Needham while under the care of a Christian Science healer, the parents of the boy being Christian Scientists, and he himself, it is said, preferring that treatment.

The reports said that the doctors of the city held a meeting the day after the death of the boy, and it was decided after consideratin that the facts in the matter should be collected and any evidence bearing upon it should be presented to District-Attorney Harris to go before the grand jury. It was not reported whether the parents of the child were to be proceeded against, or the healer, Mrs. Estelle R. Freeman of that town, but it was intimated that the parents would be the ones summoned to answer to some charge in connection with the case, although if any case could be made against Mrs. Freeman she also would be proceeded against.

The papers in writing up the case called attention to the fact that several children had died in Needham about the same time from the same complaint that the Hedenberg boy died of, dysentery, while under the doctor's care, and in fact stated that the boy who died under the treatment of Christian Science lived longer than the children who were under medical treatment.

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