Word: sanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State's Attorney General William Phinney continued to press him on the question of why he had injected the air. "I don't know," Dr. Sander insisted. "It was just the appearance of her face and the remembrance of her long suffering that might have touched...
...stream of witnesses took the stand to testify, some with trembling voices, to the selflessness of Hermann Sander-who had made up his mind to become a physician after reading Lloyd C. Douglas' Magnificent Obsession, who refused to send bills to people who could not afford to pay them, who sometimes slept, exhausted, on the floor of his office, who in the last few months before Mrs. Borroto's death had become overwrought, mentally and physically fatigued...
...Something Snapped." This week Dr. Sander took the stand and in a calm voice told his story. "I never had any intention of killing Mrs. Borroto," he said. He too, he testified, had thought she was dead when he entered her room. "I can't explain exactly what action I took then. Something snapped. Why I did it I can't tell. It doesn't make sense...
...after injecting 10 ccs of air did he open the syringe and insert more air? "I don't know ... I was obsessed," the doctor said. Phinney persisted: "You had an obsession to inject air into the veins of this poor, dead soul?" Said Dr. Sander:. "That's right . . . The very fact that she was dead gave me assurance that I could do her no harm...
...seemed likely to be the most controversial trial since the 1925 Scopes evolution case. And so from all over the U.S. more than 100 reporters, photographers and radio broadcasters had poured into the mill city of Manchester, N.H. to cover the "mercy killing" trial of Dr. Hermann Sander. There were 17 Hearstlings alone, and Hearst's International News Service had set up a teleprinter right in the courthouse basement to flash each fresh sensation. In ten days of court sessions, the press corps filed 1,600,000 words...