Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-07
ESPECIAL TELEeRAM TO THE pIspArcH.l

NEW YORK, June 6.-Mr. George D.
Carroll was found in his stationery store this
afternoon by DISPATCH reporter, but he
absolutely refused to discuss the revelations
he has been getting through his spiritual
istic priestess, Mrs. Fanny Stryker, or the
inquiry into his wife's sanity, which has
just been set on foot by DIR. N. A. Mossman.
Dr.. Mossman said to-day that he would
press the investigation which he had begun,
and find out at the same time Just what
right Mr.. Carroll had to draw the income of
his wife's property during all the time she
has been in the Middletown asylum. DR..
Mossman said that Mr.. Carroll persuaded
his wife to make over to him some of her
money, which was to be for her son Cliff
ford's benefit. and was to be held in his
name.
A HUSBANDS NEGLECT.
"I knew nothing" said DIR. Mossman, "of
Mr.. Carroll allying himself to the Spirit
ualists and Mrs. Stryker, nor of my own
knowledge of Mrs. Carroll's commitment to
the asylum. But will say this right here
that if Mrs. Carroll had been properly cared
for, and had received the proper attention
during the critical period through which
she was passing, there would have been no
cause to put her into an insane asylum"
A few months ago reports began to reach
DIR. Mossman that all was not we'll with
Mrs. Carroll, and that she had been wofully
neglected, that her husband had not visited
her for year and q half, and for that
length of time had not contributed to her
expenses at the asylum. In consequence he
understood that Mrs. Carroll had become an
inmate OF the common ward in the asylum,
although she has abundant means in her
own right. So he has undertaken to
ameliorate the condition of his old friend
and at the same time to discover just what
the state of her mind is.
while l do not say" said DIR. Moss
man, "uhat Mrs. Carroll is not insane, 1
think it highly proper that an inquiry
should be made to find Just what her mental
condition is, when we consider that women
in whom insanity has developed from very
similar causes have regained all their facul-
ties again.
THE MEDIUMS HOME
Mrs. Stryker, the spook priestess, and her
husband have lived for a year past in a
pretty little cottage at 48 Evergreen place,
lust few minutes walk from the Brick
Church station, on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western road. 1t was here that
Mrs. Stryker performed recently the cere-
mony at which she declared Mr.. Carroll to
be the earthly representative of Daniel
Webster Visitors to Mrs. Carroll say that
she was aware of Mr.. Carroll's close asso-
citation with the spook priestess, used to
visit the house where the spook wedding
ceremony was performed, and protested en-
phatically against Mr.. Carroll's conduct.
Her visits and protests became frequent. and
shortly afterward she was sent to the
asylum.
"I want to 60 to my house in Yonkers,"
Mrs. Carroll is reported to have said to one
of her visitors short time since. 81 have
been here long enough. Mr.. Carroll has all
my money and he never comes to. see me any
more"
DR.. Mossman, with friends of Mrs. Car
rolls in New York and Washington, will
bring witnesses at the coming investigation
who are ready to swear that shortly after
Mrs. Carroll was put in the asylum her dia-
monds and laces and fine household goods
were pawned, and that the proceeds went to-
ward furnishing Mrs. Stryker's temple of
humanity, and that the cost OF the fnery of
the Strykers in the Lenno1 Hill house can
be traced to Mrs. Carroll's money.