Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-04-16
SISTER SUSAN is GREEDY
ANNA DIcKINSON'S INSANITY
A CANARD.

Her Sister Thought 10 Prey Upon the Pub
lies sympathy-SO Says Anna Herself,
and She Is Corrob orated by an Eminent
Physician.
Anna Dickinson in public mad house
that was bad enough
But Anna Dickinson In public mad
house and perfectly sane-Anna Dickin-
son, gifted and eloquent, noted and hon
ored figure OF her time, famous for her
labors in behalf of the enslaved and her
championship of her own seX-Anna
Dickinson shut up with maniacs and
gibbering lunatics. and still in the pos
session of her own reason-that Is In
finitely revolving to a country that still
respects her Shocking as it is, that is
her story. Worse than that, IL is her
story that the wrongs and sufferings she
has undergone are the result OF sisters s
designs
Released frop Imprisonment by
chance, Miss Dickinson, who is now In
New York, has chosen to give her ex-
traordinary narrative to the world for
the first time. In moderate language,
with the bearing, OF q woman who
had weighed every cord and understood
what she had gone through and why she
conspiracy.
Feb. $3.50 ran the substance OF her
story-she had been seized in her home
at West Pittston, PaA, carried of by
force, and in violation OF law confined in
the State Asylum at Panville. There
| she had staid five weeks and day, with
out examination as to her mental or
| physical condition, sick, worn with
terror and anxiety, needing medical at
| tendance and lacking 1t, knowing all the
| time that terrible wrong was being
practiced upon her, but deprived OF COM
munication with her friends and the
| world.
! From this situation she was taken on
| April in a sad state of destitution and
misery by physician from another
State, who had been called upon TO re-
move her to his supposed private asylum.
Instead of shutting her up in another
institution, this physician, practitioner
of repute and standing, had recognized
her sane condition and set her free. TC
account for her Incarceration store:
had been set aioat of her violence anC
desperate madness. These Miss Dick
inson circumstantially declared to b.
| utterly false.
The object of sub b,ecting her to thes,
| uTcduIul OTucdlS was, dS suO OCliCNOus "
get money from the public by arousinl
sympathy for her pretended condition
The person whom she accused as thu
chief instrument in this unnatural de
sign is her own sister. Legal proceed
ings which will test the justice OF thes'
sweeping charges are TO be begun a
once.
Miss Dickinson went TO New York wit'
DIR. Frederick w. Seward OF Goshen, n
", at whose house she has been sine
She escaped from Danville April 2.
at is unfortunate" said Miss Dickin
son, ~that / must begin my defens
against the charge of insanity by max
ing a charge of insanity against some
body else. Disagreeable as it is for m
to reveal TO the public in this way tn
misfOrtunes of our family, l am oblige
to say that for many years my siste
Susan has been a monomaniac on tn
subject Of money.
Looking back over the last few year
and putting together many things whic
seemed to me then to be strange, but no
suspicious, / think / see very plainl
that she has been influenced by two me
tives. She had first the intense an
grasping desire for money, and belle
that il she had IL she could handle
| Il
an intense hatred and jealousy for me
"With the few people who live in Pitt:
ton had scarcely the slightest acquain'
ance, and absolutely no friendship. NJ
sister knew everybody, and everybod
knew her. In this way she was able
circulate reports about me and my col
ditiOn, which the villagers, not havin
! any knowledge of the subject, even tn
slightest, were bound to believe.
, "One day while at work i was seize
|, and hustled off to the asylum at Danvill
without being allowed to communicat
with anybody. / tried to send out var
, Gus dispatches to my relatives an
,. friends telling of the outrage to which
had been subjected. But the next da
!, passed and the next, and heard notl
! ing. Then l began to realize that ha
|, been cut off deliberately from any con
, munication with the world.
, "The Danville Asylum is a hOrribl
place. My tOrtures in IL were more tha
,, | can describe All my associates wer
, maniacs, nevertheless. There seemed
, be regular system of annoyance
, adopted toward them. All the dali
, newspapers in which accounts OF m
, supposed madness and false represents
tions of my violence were conspicuous
a | WcIC WHCiC NOuiN III
! help seeing them. Attendants and hall
. witted patients nagged, followed, pestel
! ed, and teased me.
81 needed the services of phys
cian But from first to last, frol
the moment / entered that horrib
den to the day escaped from it, no e.
T; animation was made of my condition, n
physician inquired as to whether neede
! any help, no medicines were provided fC
! me, no attention whatever was paid
me-"
DR. Seward, whose name is familia
Q and eproachable one in medical sc
4 ence, said: "Miss Anna Dickinson
perfectly sane. / have studied her cas-
, attentivcly, and know there is nothin
, the matter with her. l investigate
I some Of her statements, and found thei
, to be true"