New-York tribune., 1895-12-13
HIS HEALTH. NOT HIS MIND FEEBLE
Ebert NOsTRAND TAKEN FROM PRIVATE
sAvIrARIUM on WRGT-AN ALLEGED At
TEMPT TO SECURE HIS ESTATE

rrpEpr xOsTRAND TAKEN FROM \ PRIVATE
sAvIrARIrM on wRGT-AN ALLEGED AT
TEMPT TO SECURE HIS ESTATE.
For nearly thirty years Ebert Nostrand.
patent-medicne manufacturer at NO. a fui'oh-s,.'
New-Yors and No. 81 Furman-st., Brooklyn MADE
{, dalv practice, rain or shine 10 ieaNe MS mouse
~ vo 1s3 Tefferts Place Brooklyn, carry IN the
forenoon take a Long Island Railroad faih 70
Jamaica and dine with Uncle Jim Renlseh 'he
l.eener Of a famous old-tashioned eatng-hohse on
the Jamaica Road. Here the old cronits' i Hce
lin" and En- Nostrand would crack Jokes ana
feast and according 20 the villagers 'he" n'e'
riment was enough 10 make time SID cos
every aav Uncle Jim" died about eIght years
ago and Mr. Nostrand transferred his affections
IN rho restaurant Of John n. Waters, in Remsen-
a,e Rockaway Beach. where he continued TO meet
his old cronies He appeared so regularly IN ROCK
away Beach that the people there forgot ne HVeu
IN a handsome house in Leferts Place ana hau
a vile and two sons. who conducted the New orh
and nrooklvn business successfully. established
e ,o~,, vaars ago Two weeks ago the morning
,-a,, bovle1 into Rockaway Beach and whrled
awav John Waters waited and waited Tor ms
friend Nostrand. who did not come.
sick I guess said he
Two weeks passed. and Waters couid stanN the
susnanse no longer He came to Brooklyn on
". .,aa, and after a deal OF inquiry. learned
,ha, rlher. Xostrand had been sent 10 san:tarlum
FOR the feeble-mnded kept by Dr. ComDes. al
vyaodha YEN ttlst over the city nne from broohlyh
w SnHena County. He was surprised ana mug
,arS and told George a Mott .aWyef, OF NO
~. mar a. aud an old friend Of Mr.. Nostrand. or
obaT he mad learned. Yesterday Mr. NOT, repre-
wiz, VIZ " ur Waters presented TO Judge Gayhor, o.
sen S,sorame court a petition on which writ or
T siiv cornus was issued. requiring me superlh-
.nTan, ~ Combess san!tarum 10 produce IN court
'enten' su, hours Ebert Nostrand.
IL r.titIon Mr. Waters alleges that MI NOS
IL Ia i' ~ , moi been committed 10 any sannarium by
iaiI IL nrocess and that his family have caused
a., ,n he confined in the institution IN order that
nn n - 80 get possession OF his property carry on
~ 'hmsi1ess themselves and appropriate the rev
anue fherefrom 10 their own uses.
TN s,,perIntendent OF the sanitarium accom-
IN, ihs NJ Tostrand Mr.. Waters and Mrs. Mott
paIiedu IT, Court late In the afternoon whore
~ NJ T9strsnd went through the formallty OF ira
rs,re ~, me writ He IL In unmistakably feeble
hsaI,h INT hs mind was apparently as clear az
- md there was trace OF Insanity In his
actions when a Tribune reporter saw him for few
II annears that Drs. Benton and Bliss, OF Brook
Ion nd an alleged examination OF Mr.. Nostrand's
,,.n,aI condition. They understood TO have
hssrd MIN say that he Intended to take off his
cIotbes and 20 naked experiment this winter.
ard Mr. NDstrand is also represented as saying
that he didn't know anything about having a home
in T.frorts Place and didn't know where 10 find II.
When he was asked about these alleged hallucina-
lions Yesterday he denied that he had ever said
anything OF the kind. or that II he did II was said
testingly.
tors named said ne. Il will say that they never
gave me any examnati ton.
The case will be before Judge Gaynor again this
morning.