DR. MACKENZIE UPON HIS TRIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9189, 19 October 1888, Page 3

DR. MACKENZIE UPON HIS TRIAL.

■■ TO THE EDITOR. '■ Sir, —As you have given publicity to a letter of Dr. Bakewell's on the above subject, I ask you to kindly allow me a few words in reply. It is distinctly unfounded in fact, when Dr. Bakewcll states that Dr. Mackenzie had endured anything in silence. The opposite is true. Anyone may arrive at a correct conclusion about this matter who has at his disposal a file of the Pall Mall Gazette (Mr. Stead when passing through Berlin having; been especially favoured by Dr. Mackenzie) or any of those journals whose representatives were regularly "stuffed "by Dr. Mackenzie whilst in attendance in Germany upon the late unfortunate Emperor. Between 12 and 20 special correspondents, who were picked out by lackenzie, and who had, so to speak, to ake the oath of allegiance Ito him, formed a most notorious intelligence office at the Royal castles of Charlotteaburg and Friedrickskron. When the silence of the German doctors was made out to imply a confession of guilt, Dr. Bergmann according to the London Standard, wrote to the-British Medical Journal to the effect that no respectable British or German doctor would think of publishing tho affairs of their patients in the manner it was done by Dr. Mackenzie, but that the time.for speaking out would come. I challenge Dr. Bakewell to produce to you a file of the British Medical Journal that Dr. Bergmann statei ment may be verified. There are two per- ! sons in the British Empire whose perform-; j ances, though in different spheres, offer a I striking parallel vi " <I, ' Moroli Mackenzie

and Sir Julias Vogel. To judge by the cablegram In your to-day's issue, Her Majesty begins to feel the charm" breaking ■which' characters of the eminence of - the two aforesaid knights are able to.throw over their too confiding clients. But everybody and everything is destined to find their proper level in this world. —I am, etc.,- 4 ' ' " - \ B. Feioe.® - ; Penrose, October 18, 1888. : vl 1" ivi •' ••• — ■ " 1 1 —*$$Tp"*'si