Article January 16, 1902 Issue

Relied on Christian Science

Editor

MR. W. H. KESSLER, a well-known carpenter and contractor residing at 1709 Houston Avenue, suffered a very painful accident yesterday morning by falling from a scaffold on Oak Street, between Winter and Summer. Mr. Kessler was at work on the building, and in stepping about on the scaffold he missed his footing and fell to the ground. The drop was only about ten feet, but when Mr. Kessler's fellow-workmen ran to his aid they found him unconscious. Mr. Kessler's son, Clerk Kessler of the police department, was notified, and he reached the scene in a few minutes and had his father conveyed home.

It was at first thought that the injured man was suffering from a broken back, but despite the entreaties of his family he refused to allow a physician to be called. Instead Mrs. Stonewall Bond, who is First Reader in a Scientist Church in this city, was sent for. She remained with the patient from eleven to one o'clock.

The result was rather startling to Clerk Kessler, who had a second interview at the latter hour with his father. When he first left him the patient was in bed groaning and evidently in much pain. At one o'clock he was out of bed and walking up and down the room. Mr. Kessler, Jr., was quite unprepared for such a startling change, and he gazed at his father in amazement.

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