The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-25
No Crime Committed and No Reason
Why the Duhmes should he Ar
rested and Brought Back.
SCORING FOR CHASE SENIOR
DUHME,S LAWYERS SAY FATHER Is
IMPLY AFTER THE MONEY.
Sanitarium Attendant Tells of Queer
Things Done by the Young Man
While an Inmate.

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tonight Governor Pingree. after a long
conference with Attorney General Oren, an
nounced he would deny the application for
acquisitions on the Governor of New York
for Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Duhme, of Cincin-
natl, who were alleged to have forcibly alb
Quoted their nephew, Moses Fowler
Chase, of Lafayette, Ind. Young Chase has
an estate of about 5000, 600. The Governor
said the testimony given did not prove any
crime had been committed; that ii seemed
to prove the young man went with his
aunt of his own will. Inasmuch as the
young man is not being hidden, his where
abouts being well known and his property
safe under the jurisdiction of the Indiana
courts, the Governor said he could see no
reason for bringing him back to Michigan
and therefore denied the application He
expressed the opinion, however, that both
sides of the controversy were sincere IN
their contentious and beliefs. He SAID ne
considered the Indiana courts the proper
place for the trial of his sanity and his
capability to manage his own affairs.
Attorney A. S. Humler. Of Lafayette,
Ind, speaking for the defense, accused the
elder Chase of plotting to have his son
taken to Lafayette and adjudged insane
there, when the young man was, In fact,
perfectly sane. He declared the dollar
mark was influencing Moses Fowler
Chase's father far more than any flial feel
ing. He cited the boys letter, written when
he was at the sanitarium, asking Mrs
Duhme to nave her husband come and take
him 10 her house, as strong evidence that
the young man was sane ana being de-
tanned In the retreat against his will. At
torney Alfred Lucking, also for the defense.
followed Mr.. Kumler and made the point
that no crime had been committed, because
Moses had gone with his aunt and uncle
voluntarily. The application for a requisi-
tion," said Mr.. Lucking, states that young
Chase was forcibly abducted. We contend
he was not, that he was and is sane. and
that he vent with his aunt voluntarily and
gladly"
When Colonel Irish, for the applicants.
summed up the case he brought up a new
point. Why" he asked. 'if young Chase is
perfectly sane, is he not here to prove his
sanity to the Governor and SO settle the en-
tire matter easily and expeditiously?" Irish
commended that from the evidence given the
Governor out to issue the acquisitions, and
when the Duhmes are returned to Michigan
let a magistrate decide whether a crime had
been committed. He cautioned the Governor
that if he denied the denial would bear great
weight in whatever court Mr.. Chase carried
the matter to, and said that If no crime had
been that the Duhmes should
have no hesitation In returning and having
the case tried in the courts.
Attorney Alfred Russell, counsel IL
+. s. Chase, father Of Moses Fowler Chase,
began the argument in behalf Of the appli-
cation for a requisition on Governor Roose-
welt for the return from New York of the
Duhmes and of Charles Peterman, young
Chase's alleged abductors. Mr.. Russell as
serted it was perfectly apparent there was
a deep-laid plot by which five persons. by
concurrence, met here and abducted the boy,
who, in reality, was incapable of forming an
intention for himself. G.. p. Haywood, the
Lafayette Ind, attorney. continued the
argument for the applicant. He commended
that Chase's father naturally sought to pro-
tect his son from excitement and against
the Duhmes' alleged conspiracy. He quoted
law to the effect that the consent of a per-
son abducted could not constitute a defense.
unless it was satisfactorily shown that such
consent was not obtained by fraud, duress
or threats. He insisted that the boy was
mentally incompetent when he left Detroit
and declared if his father had shot Duhme
no court would convict him of the crime.
John ID. Conely opened for the Dummies.
He asserted that Moses was his own master
and that his father had no right, on his
hurry him to Indiana SO that, as suspected,
the father could be appointed his majority
guardian. The act of the Duhmes, he con-
tended; was but a rescue sought by Moses
Alfred Russell. in the opening proceedings.
outlined the case. The Duhmes. he said,
had abducted the insane Chase so that the
property to anybody he chose, subject to
their influence. Young Chase, Mr.. Russell
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stroke that affected his mind, plunged into
grave excuses and persisted in his depravi-
~ until the Probate Court of Genesee coun-
he was taken to the Flint sanitarium. Most
of the details were shocking. the attorney
said. and he was loath to give them public
ity. Having read the affidavits of doctors,
which went to show that the young man was
insane. he added: He destroys furniture; he
has strange Authorizations; he imagines
Mr.. Lucking, for the defense, said HI
would admit that Chase was a proper sub
ject for treatment at the time when the
commitment was signed by the Probate
Court. but he was ready to show by most
eminent physicians Of Cincinnati that the
young MAJ was sane June 4, and that he
would prove by the father himself that the
son was sane when he left the sanitarium
June 4. He would prove by letters that the
young man begged his aunt. by letter, to go
to the sanitarium and take him away.
Mr.. Lucking said he would demonstrate
fully the fact that the father wished to have
the son taken 10 lnuldnd 10 nave MIN d0Ju-
dictated insane and to the asy-
lum so that the son could be kept out of
the way of the uncle ard aunt. He prom
Used to show John ID. Conely that the young
man was sane at the time he was brought
from the sanitarium to this city; that Mr..
Conely was in the depot at the time of the
young mans arrival, on the night of the
alleged abduction.
DR.. Henry r. Niles, first medical assis-
tant in the Oak Grove sanitarium, who had
medical charge now, during the absence of
DR.. G. b. Burr in Europe, said that Chase,
September imagined that he was a great
inventor of cannon balls. After he had
been there ten days he became incoherent.
In ten days more he became muscularly
active. He tore his clothing, destroyed gas
fixtures, said that he wished to be a soldier
habits. and a nurse had to be in constant
attendance on him. In October the patient
became physically weak. said the doctor.
was afraid of being left I'm the dark, and
fearful OF taking the Russian baths that
were part of the treatment. In March and
articles of diet he objected to on account
of a fear that they would cost too much.
He also said he could not afford to buy an
overcoat. Along in May he appeared 10 be
growing brighter. He knew hat DIR. Burr
had gone TO Europe. and along toward June
fayette. but he didn't seem to know what
he wanted to so there for.
Attorney haywood conducted the exam
nation. He drew from the witness that
the patient would stand before a mirror for
hours admiring himself, and would kiss his
when the young man left the asylum. the
witness said that the patient had spent two
hours In writing an incohercnt TELEGRAM.
In short. DIR. Niles swore. when Moses