New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
DENYING MISS DicKINSoAs CHARGhS.
A STATEMENT BY HER SISTER sUsAN-DoCIoRS
WHO THOUGHT MISS ANNA UN-
DOUBTEDLY INSANE.

STATEMENT BY HER SISTER SuSAN-DOOAOn
WHO THOUGHT MISS ANNA UN-
DoUBTEDLY INSANE.
Scranton PENN April 1O-Mlss Susan E. pichinsoh
was I'm this city todny in consultition with 1rends
relative TO the statements made by her sister In New
icrk Miss Dickinson said that she had this morn
ing telegpphcd DR.. Seward that he would be held In
damages for the injury he doing her sisters mina
confirming her delusion and also that friends IN west
ifttston and It's vicinity, would testify that she had
devoted her life for years the welfare and interests
Of her sister. In denying the story published In NEW
York. Miss susan Dickinson first referred to the chare
that removal was made 70 West Pittsion clearly 10
please herself The true reason Of the removal, she
says was because Miss Anna had lost the means TO
support her mother she desired to In Philadelphia
She explains facts relative TO their family arrangements
and then answers the charge Of extravaganza, saying
that she her sisters private secretary and house
Keeper and received $3.50 a month to meet expenses
The house generally full Of Annals company ana
they had 10 be provided for IL was impossible there
fore TO avoid the standing OF accounts until her
return home t. settle at times Il made invest
ment Of any kind in my Ife," continued Miss Susan
Z" have always strven to further her interests 10
the utmost OF my ability Physicians will testify that
in the summer OF 1877 ii my nursing which saved
her llfe DR.. IIileman, whom she abuses, was her
own selection and she praised him to the skies After
a tine, on Thursday, February 10, Anna became vo-
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 several
days before she had been accusing Howe * Hummel,
her attorneys Of vlcst treaciery in her case against
the Republican National Committee, and she asserted
that old friend in Boston was concerned In plot
TO ruin her reputation"
Miss Susan speaks OF Miss Annals violence toward
her says that on February 20 IL became necessary
deliver her sister to Danvile because she had eaten
nothing for three days. She was not roughly handled
and her clothing not injured. Her papers have
been carefully assorted and await her disposition
In conclusion, Miss Susan says that she sees now
that her friends told her truly when they said she was
foolish devote her life 10 Miss Anna Hereafter
Anna must find faithful service wherever she Miss
does not explain why, when THE Scranton Re
publican first gave 10 the world the story of her
sisters insanity, she sent strongly worded denial
Of it every paper in the region, declaring that the
report "a cruel outrage"
WilkesboIre, Penn, April 10 (special-Dr Schultz
was seen at Danville this afternoon in relation to
the charges preferred against him by Miss Anna Dick
inson. Or. Schultz indignant at the implications,
and denied each separate charge totally false.
Miss Dickinson might be nOw," he said but
she most certainly while she was hero, and
although somewhat better when she left here with
Dr. seward should still have pronounced her insane
Her statements are most absurd; sIe SAYS u,c
food was revolving, that we treated her with vlo-
cnce, that no medical examination was mdue OF HeT
condition, and that letters to her wore suppressed
The food was of the best quallty-plaln but Wnole-
some II was not what she desired she coala nave
her with Violence. In fact, there was no occasion
for us to do so. No medical examination was made,
because impossible 10 mike one. She wouldn't
answer any questions We put to her, except III a
sarcastic and indirect manner TO have admIs ue
harm than good, we would have had 70 force
She refused to open them, and threw them away.
AS her statements about horrible noises and In
tended persecution, say they are the rawlings Of an
was her dsorlered Imagination. She may be better
at present but six months from now she may DO
insane again, as / think her recovery Is only a
temporary one.
Philadelphia April 1o.-The story that Miss Anna
Dickinson woman when she was COM
mitted to the Danve Insane Asylum and that Phlla
delpa ply sicians and officials concerned in the
Miss Dickinson saws she sent to the chairman and
secretary of the state Board Of Charities, Dis Thomas
received by DR. Wether, who visited her Immediately
upon receipt Of the letter, after having shown It TO
day said eve found Miss Dickinson installed in the
s6 t naoT and nd i ar wG Her
room had all been put in order by the attendants q
couple Of hours P prior to our arrival Yet i was
apartments Of persons Violently or acutely deranged.
1t was. confused and upset and was In keeping
interview was necessarily brief 6ecaqse she declined
to aa 70 n or at DeSt Eofd a. say cbmS S she o
intendent suppressed her letters. told her of our
receipt of the letter she mailed to us, and that we
had forwarded to Howe & I1nmme Of New York. the
letter which she had inclosed addressed to that law
firm"
In reply to the query TO what his opinion was
at the lime DR.. Wetherlll said Neither Mr. Barlow
nor myself had the slightest doubt but that she was
deTangcd"
DO you say officially, and do yOu stake your pro-
fesslonal reputation on Miss Dcknson's insanity
while she in Danvie ??
Yes, there is no doubt about It whatever"
A statement By M.s Anna Dickinson WHl be found on
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