Word: stemmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three New York detectives were watching the home of one Harry ("The Mustache") Rosen, suspected Fagin and fence for a gang of teen-age garment thieves. They spotted two youths entering and leaving, followed them to the home of Harvey Stemmer, a second racketeer. The detectives picked up the boys, grilled them at police headquarters. The youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged...
...Stemmer, a faithful Catholic who had borne five children, believed that her child-bearing days were over: her youngest was 17, she herself was nearing 50. Three and a half months after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
...years after the child was born, the Stemmers sued Dr. Klein for $165,000, later upped it to $400,000. The case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...
...suit was brought in the names of Mrs. Stemmer and her husband, and also of little Jacob. Last week a jury awarded $15,000 to the parents for the care of the idiot boy, $35,000 to the child "for loss of Its future earning powers." The Stemmers' lawyer allowed a press agent to take publicity pictures of the delighted couple and their grinning son Jacob. The agent then peddled them around to magazines...
...Stemmer case is the first of its kind :ver tried in the U. S. Dr. Klein is going to appeal. Many are the implications of .he principle that a child can sue for injuries suffered while in the womb. For instance: a child might be able to sue his mother for negligence while pregnant...