The evening world., 1891-04-28
MRS. BEACH SET At LIBERTY.
Released from Bloomingdale Be-
fore the Habeas Was Served.
Her Husband Ordered by Another
Writ to Bring Her to Court,

Supt. Lyon, OF the Bloomiuvdale Insane
Asylum, did not produce his whiom patient,
Mrs Harriet +. Beech, in Supreme Court
chambers this morning, as he had been
directed In the writ OF habeas corpus issued by
Justice O'Brien yesterday, on the petition OF
MIRA Corneiia 8. Robinson, 'neXt friend" to
Mrs. Beach.
Albert Bach, attorney for the Anti Kidnap-
ping League, served the writ yesterday on
Or. William Z. Dold, OF Bloomingdale Asylum,
and was In court this morning.
Al the appointed hour Editor Alfred f.
Beach, Of the S,fentfHc American, husband OF
Mrs. Harriet r.. Beach, appeared in court &C.
comranied by Wilson X. Powell. attorney for
the asylum.
Mr.. Powell made an informal return to the
writ. He said that Mrs. Beach had been dis
charged from the asylum yesterday morning
before the writ was served. That she was out
on thirty days probation, and II her mania did
not return In tnat time her discharge would be
made complete as that Of person cured.
Mr.. Bach Immediately applied for and was
granted another writ, requiring the husband,
Alfred L. Beach, to produce his wife In Court
al 3 O'Clock this afternoon. THIS writ was
issued on the atIldavit that the petitioner be-
iieved MIR. Beach was about to remove his
wife out OF this Jurisdiction.
Mir. Beach declined to discuss his domestic
affairs further than to say that Mrs. Beach was
q free agent and mistress OF herself, tho ough it
IL q fact that she may be TeiDcarcerated In
BloominRdale Asylum at any time within
thirty days without further legal process,
solely on the decsion OF the physicians that her
mania 10 returning.
The case IA a peculiar one. Mrs. Beach has
been q spiritualnt for thirty years, and her
husband 'indulged her whims TIL last Deccm.
Der. when at Adelphi Hall there was remark
able spiritualistic denomination under Mrs.
| Beach's supervision.
Mrs Beach then announced her intention oi
building q home for INDECENT mediums, and
expressed her nrm belief in spirit pictur0s like
those produced for Lu,her X. Marsh ny the
nown away priestess, Ann oielia Diss Debar.
This was 100 much for Editor Beach. lie
called In Drs. J. Leonard Corning ana r. Leroy
satterlee, anu on their certificate court ordei
wsB oLt ined Dec. 30 committing Mrs. Bcacf
| to Bloomingdae.
Some Of her friends among the Spiri.uaisti
interested tho Anti-Kldnapping League In hel
case, and Mr.. Bach declares that he has dis
covered that Mrs. Beach's letters were inter
cepted, and that Mira Beach's religious belief
did not keep her from beinR q faithful VIII,
and mother to her husband and their son ant
daughter. That II one may be locked In {
madhouse for her spirtualistc belief, ther
thousands OF others are In danger Of Hk,
fate whenever relatives take 1t into tneil
heads to be rid OF them
DR.. Dold says that Mrs beach. when she en-
tered the asylum. was full Of deluslons ant
haliucinations. One OF these was that tn,
spirits mad ordained that her husband be 7,
moved from this world. Her delusions now
however, had about all disappeared. She ha,
been released on probation to take trip t,
California with her son. Ho did not belley
this trip would be interfered with when Justlc
O'brlen Understood the whole case