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EBad Casa at AtboL[Botton Herald** Athol BpeolaL]June 10 wu set m the wedding day of May E. Parmenter, a bright, attractive and pretty girl Instead of wedding bells, the death knell sounded, for at 3 o’clock ou that bright morning she died, the victim of a criminal operation at the hands of a physician in Leominster, as she herself said the evening before her death. She was 21 years and 10 months old.Miss Parmenter lived with her mother, Mrs. Susan E. Parmenter, widow, on Prospect street. She became engaged to be married to Leroy Felton of Orange, a smart young mechanic, employed in the works of the New Home Sewing Machine company in that town.On Thursday afternoon, June 1, she was taken suddenly and seriously ill, but no physician was summoned, for she im-roved, but early Saturday morning Dr. L 0. Dunbar was called in to see her. A few questions and his own observation showed the state of affairs, and Dr. Dunbar refused to proceed unassisted or unadvised, and therefore summoned Dr. Andrews of Gardner, who came at once, and coincided with the Athol doctor’s diagnosis. Peritonitis had set in, and the opinion was expressed that she could not live.Her lover was telegraphed for and at once was made aware of the situation. She lingered till early Wednesday morning, which was to have been her wedding day.Ou Tuesday evening she made a verbal ante mortem statement in the presence of Dr, Dunbar, Deputy Sheriff Albert W. Tyler and Officer Jaqnes of the local police, but it waa not written or signed. Her story was that when she became aware of her condition she, against the advice of her intended husband, and also strongly against her own wishes, consented, at the strenuous urging of a near relative, to submit to an operation. Accordingly, on Wednesday, June 3, she went to Leominster, where a prominent and well-known physician, whose name she gave, performed the operation desired. She returned home the next day, Thursday, and her child was born that day,No legal action has been taken. The medical examiner waa not summoned, and his duty does not require him to take action in any such ease, unless called to view the body. The complicity of the Leominster physician seems very surprising to those who know the circumstances and know him.Much sympathy is expressed for the be-but the girl’s statement of inship olher to her death is what turns the pity ofreared ones, out toe gir the relationship of the one who urged her to her deau some into scorn.fXL M. Bond's Zee Houses at Franklin
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Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Jun 16, 1891
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