Medicine: Father's Blood

Before a Connecticut justice of the peace one Edna Newton, 21, sulkily accused a Louis Rebuzzini, 28. of fathering her child. The justice believed her. Louis Rebuzzini hired a resourceful lawyer, who in turn hired Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist. Dr. Wiener took samples of blood from mother, child and alleged father, examined the bloods this way & that according to the dicta of Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner. Last week litigants, lawyers and blood man appeared before a county court in New Haven.

While Edna Newton listened sulkily and Louis Rebuzzini sullenly,...

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