The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-23
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A Wife Brings Suit in Chicago TO Recover Her
Husband.

Husband.
From the Chicago Tribune June 90
A few days since q rather peculiar matter was
brought to the cOgnzance OF the Superior Court Ii
was expected, OF course, that there would be a
public hearing which would develop the whole case
II would seem, however, that the service of a writ
has caused subsistence of the of further liti-
gatlOn wherefore 1t IS presumabe that the e1 pnrte
statement under oath of the chief party interest is
true. On Tuesday writ OF habeas corpus was sued
out by Anna l.. Sheldon who sought by the aid of
the court, to procure the body OF her husband
George H. Sheldon. In her application for the writ
she made substantially the following statement:-
Anna J.. Sheldon is the wife Of George II. Sheldon
who is at present an invalid, suffering from severe
attack OF paralysis. That he taken i'll OF said
dlsease on or about the 9th day of May, 1869, at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. where he was residing with his
wife. AZ once the wife employed three competent
and trustworthy physicians, who attended upon him
for the space of three days after the date mentioned
al winch time they directed him to be placed in an
insane asylum, he being at the time partly deranged
Under this advice, the 10th day of MAY last she
caused her husband to be removed to the State Asy
lum OF the State of Iowa. at Mount Pleasant, she
superintendent, who informed her that he could
not then direct her ss to the time which
about recovery of the patient to his reason
and health. Mrs. Sheldon thus left her husband at
the asylum, returned to her home, and thence came
70 her brothers house, having it in mind to return
and move her spouse from his place OF duress at the
earliest proper time On the 80 day of June, 1869,
she concluded that 1t was time TO visit Mount Plea
SAINT to bring her husband home, whereupon she
procured ticket and being about to start learned
that he had already been, without her knowledge,
i2moYed TO Chicago By Elias p, Sheldon his brother
Having ascertained this fact she went to the board
ing house, on the corner OF Sangamon and Ran
her husband was at the time. She saw Elias p
Sheldon and his Wife, and requested to be allowed to
see her husband, which right was denied her. But
on the Both OF May she did see her husband at the
room OF Mias p. Sheldon, his brother, but then
only IN the hearing and presence of the brother
his wife, and since that date she that she has
not been permitted TO see him only when one of the
relatives is present, and then only for the length of
time they choose to allow. Mrs. Sheldon AYERS that
her husband needs the greatest care in attendance
and nursing in order to restore him to health, and
that she is anxious and greatly desires to have the
charge and care of him, and that at her fathers
house there are means fit and convenient to this
end; nevertheless, the brother refuses allow her
TO have him at her home. She states, in this con-
necton, that prior to the illness OF George II. Shell
don her husband, for some months the brother
spoken to him when they met, and that her husband
greatly desires to be removed from his and his wfes
custody,