Article June 17, 1905 Issue

A Canadian jury has brought in a verdict of criminal...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Canadian jury has brought in a verdict of criminal conspiracy against four Christian Scientists who conspired to deprive one William Goodfellow of "the necessaries of life, to wit: proper medicine and nursing, whereby death was caused."

Let us see. Fifteen years ago a doctor and a wife who should deprive the husband of shelter from the night air would have been held guilty of conspiracy to deprive him of one of the necessaries of life, because nothing is more deadly than the night air. In the year of grace 1905 a doctor and a wife who keeps the invalid indoors where the air can't reach him at night is similarly held guilty of criminal conspiracy to deprive him of one of the necessaries of life.

Yesterday the night air was not only not a necessary of life, but was positively deadly. To-day, or to-night, rather, the night air is not only harmless, it is positively life-giving; so that consumptives are made to sleep in the open air. It is necessary to save them.

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