The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18
NO HOPE FOR RECOVERY
DOCTORS INTIMATE YOUNG CHASE Is
A HOPELESS IMBECILE.
He Is Closely Guarded i'm st. Eliza
beth HospitaI-No New Move I'm the
Courts-Cfncinnati Sweetheart.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, April T.-After
spending the night in a closely-guarded
room in the Hotel Lahr. Moses Fowler
Chase was removed to st. Elizabeth Hos
pital this morning. and 1t is probable that
there he will remain until after the trial
in the Circuit Court on April q. He was
in the same condition mentally to-day as
yesterday, although his face had some
color in it and he walked along with less
resistance. With Attorney Dan Simms on
one side and a detective on the other, the
boy was bundled into a cab and driven to
the hospital about IL o'clock. DR.. c. B.
Burr, of the Flint (Mich.) Sanitarium for
Insane, where young Chase probobly will
be taken II his father wins the case, and
several local physicians held a conference
this morning, and one of them said young
Chase to-day was stronger physically than
yesterday, but that his mind was no clear
er. They seem to hold out absolutely no
hope of his ever regaining his reason.
At ST. Elizabeth Hospital young Chase is
quartered in the best suite. The hospital
is under the management of the Francis
can Sisters and is the largest and best
equipped in this part of the State. Even in
this institution guard will be kept and no
one but friends will be allowed to see the
boy. Chase will be in charge of John
HawSe, who four years ago attended him
at the Flint (Mich.) Sanitarium. Paul
Paquette, the attache of the consul gen.
erals office in Paris, whose mission was to
see that Chase arrived safely in Lafayette,
returned to New York to-day. but the two
French attendants in the case will remain
TO give testimony. Paquette will later re-
turn TO be present at the trial.
To-day Mrs. Duhme asked to be allowed
10, har ha hrIf fhn Oft
fused her request She wept when told
that she could not see Fowler and de-
clared that IL the boy had his way he
would now be with her. At the hospital
to-day several boyhood friends called on
herency and his rambings were pitiful.
Several times he alluded to the Duhmes
and France. but said nothing that was
sensible. Attorney Wilby, of Cincinnati, ar
rived to-day and held a conference with
Kumler and Gaylord.
Interest in the case continues undated
but nothing was done in court to-day. No
writ of habeas corpus was asked by the
Duhme attorneys. Neither were any steps
taken by the Chase attorneys to get pos
session of the old Chase home on South
street, now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
Duhme. The pair are keeping closely
housed and do not walk about on the
street until after nightfall.
A new phase of young Chase's life be-
fore he became mentally unbalanced was
always been supposed that the boys fire.
quent trips to Cincinnati were made for the
purpose of visiting his aunt but to-day
one of the attorneys said that the boy had
a sweetheart there, on whom he called
very often and to whom he was much at
tached. The Duhmes. IL is said did not
favor the match, and the girl later married
another man.