The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-30
E. G. THURBER IS VIOLENT.
HE ATTACKS HLs ATTENDANT WITH
An AXE AT PlTCHoGUB

with Rts wiz ne was at = Friend'a Hnouse
When NE suadsuiy Became fnsane-ais
wire asa Heishbers Ovsrcamo mina-sho
was Formerly MRS. Fauny Clare True.
PAToHoGUE, LII. Nov. 29.-Edmund.G. Thur
Der Of Providence, r. I.,swhose differences
with his family on the question Of his sanity
gave him some notoriety in New York In tho
spring Of 1896, to-day attacked his attendant,
Charles MoGee Of l45 East Thirty.second
street, New York, with NJ axe. Medical aid
saved McGee from bleeding TO death. Mrs.
Thurber. who as Mrs. Fanny Glare True WAS
also q participant In the troubles Of Thurbcr
last year, was present at the time Of the as
sault.
The Thurbers came to this town to live some
time after their marriage. Last January q
son was born to them. Soon after the birth
Of the child Mrs. Thurber went away. Mr..
Thurber advertised In the papers here that she
had left his bed and board. He then went
way to find her, he said. Two months later
they reappeared, apparently on tho best posi-
Bile terms with each other. The child is
said to DO in the caro- Of Mrs. Thurber's friends
in Brooklyn.
Tho Thurbers went to Amityv vile for tho
summer. returning TO Patchogue about Nov. 1.
They took up their abode at Roe's Hotel. Sat
Hotel informed Mrs. Thurber that they would
have to, leave, as he was afraid Mr.. Thurber
m mest. in = Which SIdS Mrs. ThSSrbor brought Hf Fer
lawyer in an effort to compel Kleeman to
allow them to stay, they went to the Central
To-day TThuISer vas nth his wife at the resi-
which, had been stored with tho ,Millors. He
slipped away from MoGee and suddenly came up
blows on the head before ho was ovcrpowered
by his wife and several neighbors who had
rushed rus %o to the h %as. stt fs,f nn6 by the ssree an tS Of
liceman Davis was called in and he arrested
done. Thurber was taken before Justice of the
Peace Smith w. Conklin. MCGEE refused TO
IN The custody Of a friend pending the result Of
Thurber'ss friends here say that he has been
wife has exercised over him with suspicion and
s ahn1ssy uprsno tco 0syt f ssyy an 1ns order ePs som Mnii aRR sSi N
to an Institution. Mrs. Thurber has asserted
her determination to fight any such proceed
ings.
Thurber is the son of Mrs. Gorham Thurber
Of Providence. He is 80 years old and is said
rS ne'u A ( teasaif s1 to his G tes piiGpersy at hi o ea,
S Sn,n sonfine aef IL the 4 Butler HOS Hospital has ' for the f II,
sane at Providence soon, after. he attained, his
oonsis'Gy On I that 0 hey 40 S,iS to- Sus sl% ia Dc released on
His brother, w. H. Thurber, initiated pro-
ceedings under which he was committed to
Bloomingdale. After q Sheriff's jury had de-
clared him sane he was released on q writ issued
by Justice Smyth.
He came here and met Mrs. True. who had
just beon divorced from her husband, and who
animation. Though both had testified that
they intended to be married Immediately. Mrs.
True declined to marry him. She said she
couldn't stand the scandal of his quarrels with
his family. -Four. days later they were mar
ried in Philadelphia. This was on April IA.
Police Court and charged w. J. r. Johnston,
who had been his friend, with misappropriat-
was in a sanitarium at Stamford, Conn.,, in
the preceding February. Thurber. with his
wife, hung around the court for three hours in
order to see Johnston locked up in default Of
bail. Johnston had opposed Thurber's marriage
TO Mrs, True,