The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-05
FORGERY DUE
TO INSANITY.
Miss EasIvIck's Relatives Con-
: fldent She is OsTangsd.
MEMBER OF WEALTHY FAMILY.
Father Was pannsr Of the HaImsysrs,
and Her Brother Is an Officer Of
Tho Sugar Trust

New York, Sept 5.--Miss Marie Joseph
Inc Eastwick. under arrest I'm Londor
charged with forging $4,000 certificate
OF stock OF the Canadian Pacific Railway
company. belongs to family conspicu.
Gus in the social and commercial life OF
Philadelphia and this city for the las,
century.
She has many relatives In both cities
and all declare that II she committed the
crime IL was while mentally unbalanced.
/ She is the daughter OF Edward r. East
wick who half century ago was the
partner of the elder Havemeyer In the
sugar-refning business.
der fatehr. her eldest sister Hulda and
her brother Spencer are with her in Lon
| don. Spencer Eastwick is the New Or
leans manager OF the Sugar Trust
Miss Marie Eastwick is "a years old
After her mothers death she had an at
tack of typhoid fever, from which she
has never lully recovered. She has had
frequent attacks of emotional hysterla
Miss Eastwick Inherited 100000 on the
death of her maternal grandfather, DR..
yers in New Jersey 30 years ago.
AMBITIOUS TO WIN FORTUNE.
When she became OF age and got con-
troll or her money she became ambitious
TO make a great fortune by her own ef-
forts. She began TO speculate I'm Wall
street, and at times showed --een judg-
ment She made large sums and lost
large sums.
In recent years her family with some
difficulty prevented her from indulging
In stock speculation. The passion TO spec
ulate took hold of her periodically.
When she first exhibited signs OF men
tai trouble Miss Eastwick was placed In
sanitarium at Greenwich. Conn. She
was removed from there less than two
years ago, her family believing that con-
slant change of scene would prove bene-
fetal.
With her father and sister she spent
a portion OF last summer at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, and In the fall went abroad.
For time IL looked as II she had fully
recovered.
When girl she was very fond OF
horses. In April, 1900 she drove four
finland from London TO Dover, and af-
ter crossing the channel drove from Ca
lais 20 Paris.
This feat was chronicled at great
length I'm the British and Continental pa
pers. Just previous 20 that she had
driven a four-in-hand 20 the extreme
north OF Scotland. one Of the longest
coaching trips ever undertaken. Her
father and sister accompanied her
BROTHER BELIEVES HER INSANE.
Edward p. Eastwick, Jr., a brother of |
the young woman, is the head of an en- |
glneering company which has offices I'm |
the Park Row building. He said yester- |
day:
MY sister did this while she was not |
In a normal condition. We had all sup |
posed that she was improving. but had |
been warned against a possible 'recur- |
renee of her malady. My father, sister |
and brother evidently did not learn of |
her purpose 20 speculate i'm stocks
until 10 was too late to take
steps. What surpris-
es me is that any business man should
have entered into dealings of this kind
With my sister, l have not yet hoard
from my father"
Spencer Eastwick Is n millionaire, as
Is also her father Spencer Eastwick I'm
1894 married Miss Celeste Stauffer daugh-
Ter OF l. II. Stauffer the richest man in
Louisiana and q great granddaughter
~ President zachary Taylor
When the Eastwicks lived In Philadel-
)hia they owned the famous Bartram
Gardens on the Schuylkil. King Edward
VII, when he visited this country as the
Prince of sales. was entertained there.