The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-19

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yer.s IN EIshkni Locking Like . TRAMP.
Po~UGnEEEPsIE, July 1s.-Howell C. Rees.
President of tho Fishkill and MatteawRn gas
works in Fishkill and q son OF William A. Rees
Of New York. escaped yesterday from . mad
house in Central Valley. Orange county. y. Y,
to which he says he was committed without
good reason. and. after u lively experience in the
mountains, where he spent the night lodging
bloodhounds and attendants, who were on his
trail on bicycles, no arrived this morning
at the home Of his counsel. James @.
Meyer, in Fishkill, weary and footsore, with
clothing torn and soiled and looking like a
tramp. Mr.. Meyer had already made an appli-
cation to Judge Barnard for a writ Of habeas
corpus to secure his clients release from the re-
treat in Orange county, and ho at once accom-
panied Mr.. Rees to Poughkeepsie and went be-
fore the Judge. who gave Mr.. Rees a letter to
DR.. Pilgrim OF the Hudson River State Hospital
asking DR.. Pilgrim to entertain Mr.. Rees until
Tuesday. when his case will come before the
Court.
Rees was committed last Wednesday to d. ].
II. Ferguson's Falkirk Sanitarium at Central
Valley. but on whose complaint he does not
know. In an interview to day he said he had
not been feeling well lately and was preparing
10 take u IT'D 10 FsuTOpo. ne WIS uusy IN Bct
ing his affairs in shape. and among other things
proposed transferring his stock in the Fishkill
Gas Company to his father. He had an appoint
ment last Tuesday with his father in Lawyer
Whites ofice In the Pulitzer building. He
went there, but found nobody to meet him.
He remained until the next day at the
Manhattan Hotel and was taken in custody
when about to leave and srraigned before
Magistrate Job Hedges. Mr.. Rees says he had
no chance to be represented by counsel and was
treated cruelty by the Magistrate, with whom.
he asserts, he has had some political differences.
The commitment papers, he alleges. were pre-
pared with celebrity and he was hustled OF to
Central Valley. His counsel. Mr.. Meyer. read OF
his plight in the newspapers, and on Friday got
from Judge Barnard a writ OF habeas cor
pus. armed with which he went to Central
Valley and saw DR.. Ferguson. The lat
ter refused to receive the paper. and told
Lawyer Meyer that he would send the Court Q
certificate showing that Mr.. Rees was in such .
condition that he was not ht to be moved.
While the lawyer and doctor were talking the
patient. in another part of the building, had dis
ment allowed him. and IN some manner had Sc
cured his clothing, WHICH had been taken away
esoapo edn ihro ns Ru a S vi ais S.0'n'' III ''0''' anu
It was then 8 o'clock in the afternoon. He
P RsIa sov i = ~ see a %Igas Rirer anf hi se esespe e ass
discovered in five minutes. Mr.. ,Rees thinks
Keeper Callahan saw him when he Jumped from
the window. When he got over q hill near the
Sanitarium he heard sounds OF pursuit, and
threw himself into a shallow brook. He heard
him, and listened to their agreement to go back
ana get dogs to track him.
Mr.. Reas as soon as he dared move made o
Wild dash through the woods. To throw the
dogs Cd tho scent he plunged h5so og noun a,n
s sossisd ON NJ is e ,r n.s waist and doubled and re-
h. 4 l.s ass.5iEMRt . ,hj Po %Grni Rs s ssI4s ssf i, hue ps1y;
from, n talarranh nneratn which he maid n hoaf-
where he boarded q Hudson River Railroad
a man present who Would lend him 20 cents
to pay his fare to Fishkill. The money was
forthcoming, and in this manner he got to his
Mr.. Recs gives no explanation OF the reason for
shutting & him Mn up In a a mafh9u ser and MAKES ns no
son. He said his suspicious were aroused that
something Was in the wind nd before he w hss sum
but he could not deine his suspicious. and the
denouemept took him by surprise. %.
company there. he started q club at Van Wyck
lake for his gas plant, besides making OF tho re-
sort q rendezvous for wealthy, men. The village
people say there was merit in his scheme. Rees
Is as years old and is a tinelooking man. Sew.
eral weeks SE9 he bad an UNPLEASANT expert
driven from Van WICK Lake to the village
church. During the service a young woman
and a man entered and took seats beside him in
After the service the woman tried TO speak to
him, but he repulsed her. lie entered bis car
rage and was driven TO meet . friend who at
tended another church, and at the entrance was
met by the young woman who tried 70 speak te
and when he told his coachman to drive on
threw herself in front OF the horses;
A large crowd had gathered. and one OF the
spectators was the village constable. who. at The
risk Of his life, pulled the woman from undel
the horses feet and saved her from injury. Thu
woman refused to give her name and soon lef
for New York. Mr.. Rees could not be persuaded
to make a complaint against her, 1t is said thai
she was a typewriter in a New } ork once anC
that the man with her was her husband.
Word was received yesterday morning at Mr.
Recess home. 1873 Fast Fortieth street, that b,
friend started for Central, Valley as soon as pos
sih!c. They could learn there only that he haC
ton OF Fishkiii. They came back here and wen
10 Police Headquarters and had a general alarm
sent qpt. When thss e nc, T9t hon home they is NaTss
o report has been published stating tina
Rees had any notice OF the proceedings agains
him or any hearing before the commitment. DR.
j. c. Miller. the family physician, said that h
tarium until he recovered.
On the af1davit5 of two doctors he was com
mitted by Justice Truax OF the supreme Court
He declined to go with the private detectives 4
the sanitarium on Wednesday last, and made
scene in the Grand Central Station. With De
t~ective Raynor, the private detectives took Rec
I to the Yorkville Police Court, and Magistrat'
Hedges, who Is a friend of Rees, advised him q
go peaceably with the detectives. Howell de
elined to go until he had consulted his counsel
Magistrate Hedges thereupon ordered tn
court officers to take charge OF Rees, Rees Is
big, powerful man, and he swept six OF then
! Cufed and taken to the sanitanum. His fathe
: s1ys that the son Is under the hallucinatiOl
that he is being prosecuted because OF hi