Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-12
RESPIFED FOR A MONTH.
story of tho Rescue of Harriet ID. Drury
trOm an Insane AsYIum.


from an lnsane Asylum.
iiEyAaK, n j., March 5-Miss Harri.
ct Dlury, who was released from the
Fiatbush Insane Asylum in Brooklyn,
is now at the home Of her cousin, NJ re-.
Josephine Van PAtten in this city. She
was placed ia Mrs. Van Patterns charge
by Judge Clement, with the unde AMI
ing that at the end OF month she is to
be produced before him that lie may
Judge her mental condition.
Miss Drury bears the marks of i'll
usage and abuse. inflicted, as she says,
in private asylum. Because she in
sisted on being released from Uonfne-
menu there she was tied. Ulcerations
on her feet and ankles, and on the, toe
of the left foot, from which the nail
will have to be taken off, show how
tightly she must have been bound.
These sores are beginning to tester, and
they must havo caused her great suffer-
ing.
The story of the effort to secure Miss
Drury's confinement In an insane asy-
lum is an interesting one. Her father
left son by his first wife, but willed
his property to the second wife, Miss
Drury's mother, from whom she in
Rapids, Mich, the son, threatened a
contest OF the will, but a compromise
with him was finally effected. The
young woman has never wasted her
money, or by her actions suggested in
sanity. Her words, her letters, and her
habits in small matters, such as that Of
looking under beds, into closets. and
out of windows, have been the basis Tor
the charge of insanity.
1t was learned from relative of Miss
Drury that the object of her affections.
Rev. Joseph A. Milburn, of Fond du
Lac, Wis, was formerly a resident OF
Buffalo, and a young man Of excellent
family. He is brother of John G..
M1lburn, who is law partner of ex-
Senator Shern an s. Rogers, and a leader
in Democratic politics.
Miss Drury was an attendant at DR..
Milburn's church, at Fond du Lac, and
about six months ago, it is alleged, she
went to Buffalo and made a scene, call
ing on Rev. Milburn's brother and de-
handing to know why the minister had
foTsaken her.
Many letters from the Fond dC Lac
divine were found among the young
lady's effects. In these memoirs the
clergyman breathes friendship, and as
sumes benignant and latherly manner
Of address.
Miss Drury is happy over her release,
and her friends in this city, and DR..
Mulcahy, her physician, feel sure that
alter the months probation she will be
formally adiudged to be of sound mind.
FOND DU Lac, Wis March 5.-The
Rev. Joseph Milburn, had he kept the
various mssives he had received, and
were he disposed to give them to the
public, could add a most interesting
chapter to the sad story of Harriet D.
Drury, the handsome Fond du
Lac lady who has just been re-
leased from the Flatbush Insane
Hospital at Brooklyn. MIR. Milburn
has received scores Of letters from his
luir admirer, and on one occasion, when
the lady was in Europe, was the recip-
lent of two affectionately worded cable
grams.
Mr. Milburn said to-day that he Gid
not wish to discuss the matter. He said
Miss Drury was poor insane girl, for
whom he apparently had the greatest
symp athy. He said that Miss Drury
had never received letter from him,
and that she did not have scrap of
paper in her poss ession bearing his
writing. She had sent him large num-
Der OF letters, and the constant receipt
of the missives was a great annoyance
amounting almost 10 persecution.
The divine declares that the idea that
possesses Miss Drury, that he has at
any time felt or shown any especial re-
gard Tor Der, is an Naturalization.