The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Gortz, a physician of considerable note, was executed in Berlin, (Prussia,) in July last:--The circumstances which led to his disgraceful end, are thus related :--

Baron Goeler, of the Prussian Board of Finance, had an only daughter, which was placed under the care of Gortz, for the eradication of a scrophulous complaint. His skill soon relieved the young lady ; but after a short time the disorder returned. He then declared to the father, whose Confidence he had acquired, that unless the daughter was more immediately under his eye he could not answer for her complete cure. The Baron, upon this representation, agreed to her residing for some time in the house of Gortz, who was a married man, and in this situation the latter found means to abuse the confidence reposed in him, by seducing the young lady.--Dreading the manifestation of his guilt, and sensible that his patient's situation would not admit of much longer concealment, he prescribed a medicine which operated with much violence, and after a few days terminated her existence. Previously to her dissolution, however, she made known her shame.--Gortz was immediately apprehended and examined; he denied the crime imputed to him, and declared that his prescription was intended to relieve her pain. No evidence could be adduced of his guilt. The deceased did not exhibit any appearance of being poisoned, and the medicine on being analysed was found to contain no ingredient of that nature. But several physicians having given their opinion, that they did not think a man of Gortz's experience could have given the medicine for any other than a malignant purpose; he was convicted of the murder, and his family banished.

Lon. pap.