Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
HERE'S THE OTHER SIDE
SUSAN DICKINSON IS DEFEND
ED By FRIENDS.

Miss Frances willard Amazed ny Anna
Diciinson's RecitaI--susan Had Always
Been Loving. Unseifish and Attent-
| i've sisfer-The Fund Explained.
A dispatch from Scranton. Pa, says:
Miss Susan +. Dickinson was I'm the
| city In consultation with friends
relative TO the statements made by her
sister to a reporter in New York. Miss
| Dickinson said that she had telegraphed
DIR. Seward that he would be held In
damages for the injury he Is doing her
| sisters mind, confirming her delusioD,
and also that friends in West Pittston
and vicinity will testify that she has de-
| voted her life for years TO the welfare
and interests OF Anna In denying the
story published I'm New York, Miss Susan
Dickinson first refers to the charge that
q removal was made 10 West
| Pittston clearly 70 please herself.
| The true reason OF the removal,
she says, was because Miss Anna had
lost the means to support her mother as
she desired to in Philadelphia. She ex-
| plains facts relative TO their family
| arrangements and then answers the
charge of extravaganza, saying that she
was her sisters private secretary and
bookkeeper, and was allowed $3.50 a
| month to meet expenses, which included
the rental OF a 81. 900 year house. The
| house was generally full OF Annals COM
| pany, and they had to be provided for.
| It was impossible, therefore, TO avoLd the
standing over Of accounts until her re-
| turn home to settle at times. III never
made an investment of any kind in my
| life," continued Miss Susan. Il never
bought trinkets for myself, and was
not in the habit of making gifts to
| other people. In answer to my sisters
| alienation that ha Int hatr
and jealousy for her, l have to say
that IL has never taken any other
| form than that of striving to further
her interests to the utmost OF my ability.
| Physicians will testify that in the sum-
mer OF 1877 IL was my nursing which
/ saved her life. DR.. Hileman, whom she
| abuses, was her own selection, and she
praised him to the skies. After time,
on Thursday, Feb. 10. Anna became
violently delirious and her actions were
very curious. Among other things she
began screaming and pounding on the
partition walls The servant was afraid
OF her, ran out Of the house, and was
followed by Anna. She then came back
and ate her supper. Her story Of gleam-
| ing white crystals in a cup of coffee Is
pure fabrication, which only insanity
can account for. Several days before she
| had been accusing Howe a. Hummell,
| her attorneys, of the vilest treachery
] in her case against the Republican
| National Committee, and she asserted
that an old friend in Boston was con-
cerned I'm plot TO ruin her reputation. y
Miss Susan speaks of Miss Anna's vio-
| lence toward her and then says that on
Feb 25 it became necessary to deliver
| her sister to Danville, because she had
eaten nothing for three days. She was
1 4. 4 xIz4l Ia.
| was not injured. as stated in all the
papers, at the time her door was forced
open. Her papers have been carefully
assorted, and they now await her dispo-
| sition. Her stage jewels in one package
and her private jewels in another are
safe in her own bank in Pttston, subject
TO her order. The attempt to secure
| money for her was inaugurated by Mrs.
Longford and Miss Willard without any
action or word on Miss Susan's part
The Pittston Gazette says: "0f course
there is not to be found in all this region
a single person who for one moment be-
lieves the ridiculous story sent out.
Miss Susan has been greatly devoted to
her sister Anna, and for years she has
placed her welfare above all else, even
to the extent OF relinquishment of the
| greater portion of her literary work in
order that she might be able to better
attend her sister during her late i'll
| ness"
81 really do not know what to make of
the report published in regard to the
unjust incarceration of Anna Dickinson"
said Frances + Willard.
81 have no authoritative information
| upon which to base a hypothesis" con-
| tinued Miss Willard, ~and was never in
| my life more astonished than when read
| the statement What do know is that
| have been acquainted with Susan Z.
| Dickinson, Annals sister, for the last fif-
teen years, and that TO my knowledge
she has been a most generous. faithful
| and also beloved sister. There were the
most cordial and loving relations between
| the two sisters, and / have, times with
out number, heard Anna speak in the
| most affectonate way of Susan. Indeed,
have always regarded Susan as the
| mainstay of the family. Anna was al
ways erratic. but Susan went on in the
| even tenor OF her way. and was always
TO be depended upon.
81 could not believe Susan Dickinson
capable of the base conduct attributed
30 her under any circumstances, but
| really do not see what she could hope
10 gain by such a course. The plan for
the fund which we hope to raise Is that
IL shall be placed in the hands OF trus-
tees, and that only the interest shall be
| paid TO Anna Dickinson, and that IL
| shall be ke-t as permanent fund for
the purpose of aiding any woman who
has given her life to the public and is no
longer able to care for herself That A.
| j. Drexel is the treasurer OF the commit
tee that is to take charge OF the funds
is IL seems to me. sufficient guarantee
| that all will be conducted as IL should be.
| 1t also seems to me to disprove the
| statement that Susan K. Dickinson
hopes TO possess herself of any funds
| that should be raised.
"Here Is letter from Susan f. Dick
| inson which / received recently" said
| Miss Willard. ~Shc tells me Of Anna's
| removal and says: Il could not 90 with
her because, as is so usual in such cases,
she turned suddenly and violently against
me, and until have the assurance that
IL is better instead of worse for her to
see me shall wait
| aMiss Susan closed with: How earn
estly thank you for al you are doing
| and for all your tributes to Anna in what
| you write have 20 adequate words to
say. But pray God to bless you, and
look forward to the day when you
and Anna shall take loving counsel to-
gether.'
FUNERAL OF p. r. BARNUM.