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i wound .tut’ wnuo., -------iPrayer Instead of Doctors—Indicted For Manslaughter.William Marion Embler and wife, Charles Plemmons and Lewis Ramson, the last a negro, have been indicted by the Buncombe county grand jury for manslaughter. It is charged that through their refusal to allow physicians to attend 10-year-old Ezra Embler they were responsible for the child’s death following a long siege of typhoid fever. Allegations made by officers are to the effect that they depended on - prayer to cure the child and kept physicians from the hoy’s bedside. Their prayqrs were continuous by day and night; but the little fellow died,:, .. - fBonds for- the appearance of the four defendants at the next term of Superior ^^urt were named in the uni of $500 and the three white defendants furnished bail, while the egro weritj'tib jail. He refused to j^mploy an attorney, stating that he %ill depen$~*on .prayer to save him. Jrhe white people, however, employedunsel.It fc charged that a nurse who was sent to Attend the child by the county Tvas unable to perform her work and protect her patient by reason of the ■loud and boisterous praying of the fmemhers of the sect and. finally she as driven from the house when she Pemanded that the prayers be less oisy.Prlt;dais'(](islieexp. r,inlielif•VBy
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Tue, Oct 05, 1915
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