Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-13
PERSISTENT PERSECUTION.
A New York Lady Robbed or Her
Money and Ineareerated In an Insane
Asylun.


Money and Ineareerated In an Insane
AsylUns.
NEW YORK, October 12.-An evening pa.
per prints an interview with Mrs. Lucy
King, formerly Mrs. Barker, a native Of
Arcade, little village near Buffalo, n. Y,
which, If true, discloses persecution OF the
most shocking description. According to
the woman's story, after her first husband
died she received letter fran brother in
Milwaukee, c. A. Steele, whodocS business
on West Water street. This invitation sne
accepted against the wishes of her friends
who warned her that some sinister design
lurked behind it. She had not been here
long before Steele secured possession OF q
S3, 900 note given by an Eastern party for
money loaned, an elegant gold watch and
chain, valued at 500, a $500 diamond ring,
diamOnd.breast-pin and earrings, and other
yaluables belonging to her, and little
later she was incarceratcd in an insane
hospital at Oshkosh, where she was con-
fined seven months. In the meantime
Steele made an attempt to secure possession
OF her property by having himself appoint
ed her guardian, but was battied. After
leaving the hospital she compelled her
brother to return to her the property in
ANeO
during her incarceration had failed in busl-
ness. and was unable to meet il. Later a
banking institution in New York, holding
funds OF hers, failed, and she realized only
25 cents on the dollar of her deposits. Then
she married DR.. King, Of Jackson, Mich,
who conspired with brother OF hers re-
siding there 10 have her sent TO the insane
asylum at Kalamazoo. The attempt ia. led
because the judge OF the court applied
to happened to know her. Next
she returned to New York city to lc *
after her business affairs there, dlsposing
of most of her real estate. Returning to
Jackson she deposited 81 800 in a bank
there. On the day Of her return she met
her brother. and on his invitation she again
became an inmate of his house. The next
day he induced her to draw her money
from the bank where she had depoS' ted 1T,
and to put it into another, he securing the
certificate of deposit, which he still holds.
She had also brought her husbands watch
and other Jewels from New York, which
her brother also obtained possession Of. A
few days afterward, Mrs King alleges, she
was seized on the public street in daylight,
put into carriage, and conveyed to tram.
She was then taken to Oshkosh, and again
incarcerated. This was in the latter part oi
October, 1879. At that place she
was kept until the May following, when
she was taken to the Milwaukee asylum,
and de.ained there untillast Sunday morn
ing, when, through the advice OF Mrs.
Fairbanks, she took advantage of Q priyi'
lege to go out walking to come to the city
and seek the protection OF friends, with
whom she remains. She claims that Dr.
Mcbride declined to assist in establishin"
her sanity, and refused brother, who
came from the east three years ago with
his family, the privilege of seeing her
Mrs. King has intrusted her case to law
yer, who will first secure her legal rele ise
from the asylumIon writ OF habeus corpus,
and then compel the designing relatives OF
the lady to make restitution. Mrs. Fair
banks, under whose advice Mrs. King acted
in leaving the Milwaukee asylum, was
member Of the State Board of Charities and
Reform untillthe organization was ligiSlated
out of existence recently. The case will
attract much attention when it is brought
into court.