St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-11
Lawyer Wentworth Looking
for the Man Who Dishon-
oped His Names
He Seeks to Shoot a Villain
Who Ruined a Girl Of
Twenty,
And Is Detained at a Hospital
to Be Examined as to His
Sanity.
DR.. Graves Goes to Denver to
Tell About That Mysteri-
Gus Bottle.

New YORK, May 10.-John F. Went
worth, who has been lawyer in Wash
ington for the last three years, says the
New York Sun, was committed to Belle
vue hospital by Justice Welde in the
Harlem court yesterday for eXamina
tion as to his sanity. The alleged be-
trayal of sister is said to be the cause
of the young lawyers trouble. He is
thirty years old, and comes of a good
family in Milwaukee. His sister, a girl
of twenty, came to New York year
ago. Mr.. Wentworth did not learn why
she had left her home in Milwaukee
until about four months ago. Recently
he got the name and description
of the man who was responsible
for his sisters misfortune. He came to
New York at once to look for him and
went to the residence of DR.. Francis f.
Root, of 95 West One Hundred and
Fourth street. This was on Tuesday
last. DR.. Root is a distant relative of
the lawyer. When Wentworth told the
doctor the object of his visit the doctor
did not at first believe the young man
was in earnest, but he took the precau
tiGn to watch him rather closely. A day
or two after his arrival Wentworth, hav-
ing found the man he sought, learned
that he was in the habit of leaving home
about s o'clock every morning, and that
he generally rode down town on the
Ninth avenue elevated road, and then
took the train at the Ninth and Third
street station. Yesterday morning DR..
thirty-twO caliber revolver. He loaded
it carefully and the doctor asked him
what he was doing it for. II hope
at last to meet the betrayer of
my sister," Wentworth replied. DR..
Root locked the door when he left the
room, but half an hour later Wentworth
had escaped. He must have had key
which fitted the lock. When he discOv-
cred Wentworth's absence, DR.. Root
hurried out and overlook him at Ninth
and Fourth street. Wentworth was
hurrying to the station, and was within
block of it. Don't try to interfere
with me. | am determined to meet that
man," he said, threateningly, as he
turned and saw the doctor. Dr. Root
walked quietly beside Wentworth a
few steps, and then turned suddenly
and threw his arms about him. Went
worth struggled to free himself, and
falling in this tried to withdraw his
hand from his overcoat pocket, in which
it had been buried from the time DR..
Root had first caught sight of him. The
doctor held him. however, until Police
man Horan arrived. The offce&found
the loaded revolver in Wentworth's
right overcoat pocket, and took posses
sion of it. Wentworth was taken to the
West One Hundredth street station,
and from there sent to court, where
DR.. Root SAID he believed the lawyers
mind was affected, and that he
was a dangerous man to be at large.
what have you to say to thiS?' asked
the justice of the prisoner. Il waive
examination" Wentworth quietly an
swered. He was sent down stairs to
await the arrival of an ambulance. DR..
Root said WentwOrth's mother and
father are visiting in the city, but he
refuses to tell where. He does not deny
that he knows the name of the man ac-
cused of Detraying Miss Wentworth, but
he refuses to reveal it. He says, how
ever, that he believes he is connected
with downtown publishing house.