The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-24
AFTER HARRISON
A Crazy Woman Comes from Eng
q land to Remove" Him.
She Wanted Him to Assist Her In Securing
Possession of Her Grandchildren-Com-
mitted to Bloomingdale Asylum.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.1

ISpecialt to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.1
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-According to Ru-
dolph V. Martinsen, of this city, threat
against the life of President Harrison was
contained in letter sent to LorIn A. La
throp, United States consul at Bristol,
England, some moths ago by Mrs. Ada
Thorpe LOTUS, who is MIR. Martinsen's
mother-in-law. Mrs LOTUS arrived in
this city in the steamer Brittanic on Sun
day, going to the Fifth Avenue hotel. She
told how her son-in-law had prosecuted her
and had secured her incarceration in a
lunatic asylum in France, from which she
cured by her son-in law she was arrested
Monday and was committed to Bellevue
hospital for
AN EXAMINATION AS TO HER SANITY.
Drs. Field, Fitch, Douglass and McDon-
aid made this examination, and as a result
she will probably be taken to Blooming
dale asylum this morning. Mr.. Martinsen.
the son-in-law, at first refused to make any
reply to the charges made by his mother
ln-laW that he was conspiring to have her
imprisoned, but tonight he said:
"Mrs. Lotus is insane and in Justice to
her am forced to proceed against her. 1t
is perfectly true, as she says, that
secured her commitment to an asylum in
Paris. She has caused me great trouble
and Is dangerously insane. Mrs. Lotus
has
THREATENED THE LIFE OF THE PRESIDENT
4and as a necessary precaution against the
possibility of such an awful tragedy her
incarnation was necessary. This fact is
not known to me alone for the officials of
the government have been cognizant of it
for months.
Months ago she demanded of me the
immediate surrender of my children. She
claimed that by natural law the grand
mothers right to the custody of her child's
children was superior to any other. Of
course no attention was paid to her raw
ings. We were all abroad when the mat
ter eliminated in
THREAT UPON PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's LIFE.
became cognizant of her deadly purpose
in this way: Mrs. LOTUS knew Mr. La
throp, United States consul at Bristol, was
very we'll She wrote to him one day stat
ing her determination to get possession of
my children at any cost and tie ling how
she proposed to enforce their surrender.
Il shall sail at once for the United States,
| she wrote, and l will go direct to Wash
ton. My purpose there will be to see the
President. He can help me.
IF he REFUSES WILL REMOVE HIM.
There will be no President
"Mr. Lathrop. knowing her insanity and
realizing the great probability of her put
ting her threat into execution, lost no time
in taking action. He cabled the news to
Joel B. Erhardt, then collector, who at
once notified New York attorney, Simon
Sterne. Mrs. LOTUS sailed for New York
shortly afterwards, and then l employed a
detective, who met her upon her arrival
here, interested her in visionary scheme
of magazine publication in England and
! turned her back to Europe, where she was
examined by famous lunacy experts and
sent to an asylum, but through the inter
ference of iniudicous friends, upon whom
she cleverly imposed, she was released and
came here undoubtedly with her old homi-
| cidal purpose in ner crazed mind. Since
her letter to Consul Lathrop she has writ
ten in similar strain to me, showing the
fixity of her mania. Her Immediate in
generation is the only thing to avoid the
possibility of a tragedy"
The doctors who examined Mrs. Lotus
to-day were informed of her threat to ire
move" the President and DR.. Douglass
said that from the peculiar form of her in.
sanity he regarded her as
CAPABLE OF PENETRATING ALMOST ANY
"Her insanity is very similar to Guiteau's, >
he said.