The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-04
NEWS FOR NELSON WHITE.
THE LUNACY LAW RhFORMERS HAVE
HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN

They Dispute Her Hssband's Statement
| That she IL Demented-At Any Rate the
Children Arc Said 10 He Wen Cared For,
| The disappearance Of Mrs. Hattie White and
her two little daug lighters. Stelli and Effie. from
| her husbands home at BOG East Eighty second
street and subsequently from her hiding place
| at 1877 East SIth street is apparently ex-
planned by the following COMMIT nication re-
ceived by THE Sun last night from Mrs. Z. 1.
| Demorest. Treasurer OF the "Lunacy Law Re-
form League
THE CASE OF Mrs WHITE"
THE Lunacy Law Reform League has taken
| up the cause OF Mrs. Nelson White
:" Her husband claims she is demented and
| is wandering around with her two girls. aged
and IL respectively. The league asserts
that she is perfectly sane and that both she
and her children are in the hands Of friends.
where she will remain until her matters have
been adjudicated upon"
Mr.. White. who Is a street-car driver was
searching vainly for his family all day YES
terday. fearing the worst, he said. His
story OF his wife's insanity is that It has
been growing worse the last three years,
Three years ago she attended the Presby-
terinn Church in West Fifty sixth street, noar
Ninth avenue ofwhich brother OF tho Rov.
William Harshaw. the present pastor Of the
m.
was pastor. She took n dislike to Mrs. liar.
shaw. and imagined that that lady was circu-
lating stories about her; She wanted to bring
SUIT for sander. and did consult Howe. {
bors. and she insisted on moving fre re-, Sli
street church. Mr.. White thinks. his witn he"
came y,ctim OF mesmerists. and hypnotic
and tsr 'pr then With With
her. he isvery sure. weakened her mind further
After she had become ember Of the R.v
tys prSoi HAT Ms William fS la" p %as
tered daily in his food. She had nm i"a. too.
that the brothers were both hyrnotists and
that they wanted t? hypnotiac her. She wrote
letters. too to leading men in the churches, in
which she talked about murders that she lad
read of in the papers. She would assert til
witness OF the crimes. and knew that he would
not disclose what he had seen. $780,.
became 50 afraid Of her that he visi,ai iii"
Harlem Police Court and had u warrant issued,
iMpths sm ih. t." ny% he her sanity inquired n,o
attack OF illness. and he begged her or and
took her home, with him again, She was sick
for week. The doctor said she had nervous
Mrs. White was something Of an artist. Tho
EishtS.see"nI Street are ""verei with 1t raj" a"
There is w IN. hplt, finished nctnr. # i:fl"; 49,
Curtis. living in u little town in Maine. sixty
Some weeks ago she talked Of visiting Miss
Curtis. On Monday when Mr.. White SHt word
that his family had been in the Eighty.
seventh street house. he got by tho same mail
this letter:
FrR "a 1892.
NV IOgk CIV
benr rama going to the country soon where
mamma sister * Aud we vii! write you stti my
love ynu l"ar papa
from Dear Eie
Look on the other side
On the other side was written:
omy De If Papa
CO. d
tiirl
Efe is goo! Vir now.
Stella also wrote that thcy were going to the
country. Mrs. White has IL brother. IRWIN
Curtis in st. Paul \ message was sent to him
yesterday asking If il" had heard ANYTHING Of
her or the children. All Of Mrs. Whites reL,-