Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-13

l.pWEII, Mafn, May -, 1890
Please publish tho aecohu, / gave yon at
Yoar city 81 ihf uIifinRs The grand scOun-
drels kidnapnsd ne IA nosiun. and wilhou,
law, ns % Dayton. Ghio put nie into the Nc
lean Asylum. where ! have been confined for
three weeks IN dungeon broke ont, or
rather, got hold Of keytnnd rot ont yester-
day morning and for TIE first time hm able
10 write you u haste They would allow Of
no letters from me 10 40 out of tho asylum. IN
forming others where was, will yet repay
the good friends At Wheeling who assisted me
Ny thanks 10 them Certain parties here GO,
hold Of the memorandum OF their names,
which made, and am at loss for their nd
dress W r. DOGGE1T
Mr. W. p. Doggeu Is, by his own account,
the late Secretary Of the Dayton aud Western
Railroad Company, and Auditor Of the Indi-
ana Central road he called upon US a few
weeks ago, in company with q number Of our
citizens here, and gave us narrative Of him
self of the most startling Misunderstanding us
how that he had been twice forcibly abducted
and put in the Dayton Lunatic Asylum. in or
der TO invalidate or make way with damaging
facts, Of which he was alone cognizant in re-
lation 10 the transactions Of former superin-
tendent Of the road with which he was con.
nected The details related to us, many of
them, are of the most unnatural and horrible
character--so much so that we feel bound to
withhold them until we are assured beyond a
peradventure Of their truth. AT the time Of
Mr. Doggetts calling upon us, he had Just
broken out Of the asylum, for the second
time, so he said, and having escaped upon
such circumstances, was entirely destitute
As appears by his letter, he was helped East
ward 10 his relations by liberal contribution
here, and il is more Ms piece Of intelligence
10 the subscribers 10 that fund than for any
other reason that we publish his letter to-day
We may possibly have more to say aboutthe
curious affair when we are more satisfactorily
assured Of It's entire truth
Mr.. DoGGErT was for some time the Secre-
tary Of the Dayton and Western Railroad, and
Auditor ofthe Indinana Central Road here, -
as stated but more than two years ago his
mind AZ times wandered, and he himself fear.
ed permanent insanity, and he consulted emf
nent physicians with regard to his case He
got worse, however, and some months ago, on
the sudden death ofa son on whom he dooted,
his mind almost entirely gave way, and he was
confined in the Southern Lunatic Asylum, near
TINS Guy he HhhABtu W tHShpts went ''tsti
and corrcsponded for a paper here, we be-
lieve then returned, and WIS again put into
the Asylum. At times he had 'lucid inter
walls, seemed quite rational, and was not CON
sequently, very closely watched, and again eC-
fected his escape. Although we had made
frequent inquiry about him, we had not heard
any thing about his whereabouts or doings nm
I'll we read theabove in the InteHjgencer and
we give II as information for our readers at
home.
The Tntelhgencer gives entirely too much
Importance to the statements of lunatic We
know nothing about the charges indicated n
his rawlings about "the transactions of for
mer Superintendent never heard of any
such affair, and we brand the thing us unwor
thy the utterance of the Wheeling papers