The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-20
WAS NEVER INSANE,
AYERS MRS, ANGEL
Asylum Inmate to Prosecute Con-
sin. Who, Woman Alleges,
Took Her Naluables.
RELEASED BY NElGHB0RS.
Money, Jewelry and Clothing Not
TO Be Found When She
Went in Quest of
Property.
RELEASED BY NEIGHB0RS.

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teresting cases that has ever been heard
in tie Flushing IL. II court will come
up on September 24 when Mrs Ella
Angel of No. 40 Seventeenth street. Col
lece Point. is tried for an alleged misap-
preparation OF personal property belonging
to her cousin by marriage. Mrs. Lillian
Angel.
The complainant will allese that the de-
fendant sent her 10 an insane asylum
while she was sane She will also tell how
her relative by marriage gave her queer"
medicine-"dope," as she calls it-and
kept her stupeffed.
That Mrs. Lillian Angel was committed
for two weeks to Kings Park Insane
Asylum is matter OF record.
That she had rings and good clothing
and $500 in money is undisputed.
That Mrs Ella Angel was arrested and
held in SEQ bail for alleged conversion OF
her relatives property is also matter
of public record.
ONE HUSBAND VANISHES.
Those are the facts. Behind them, how
ever. is a romance. q mystery involving
the odd disappearance of Mrs. Lillian
Angels husband, her struggle to support
herself. and later her commitment 10 an
insane asylum, from which institution she
was released only through the efforts OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Krimp of No. Is
Seventh avenue. College Point; the Chief
Of Police Of Lebanon, Pa, and her brother.
Few women have had a harder struggle
in life than Mrs. Lillian Angel has had
in the last three years. She married four
teen years ago. though she does not look
a day more than IS Her husband was
travelling man. and three years ago he
mvsteriously disappeared. Private detec-
tives were employed to find him, but they
all made the same report-"He met Win
foul play.
Mrs Angel went into mourning for her
husband. She lived for A time with her
family. the WalifeS. of Lebanon, Pa, and
then came TO New York to make her own
living She got place as a clerk with
New York physician and fitted up Il nat
in West Nineteenth street
She worried about the disappearance OF
her husband. and finally her physician ad-
vised her to break up Housekeeping.
TO TAKE A REST.
When my physician told me to take
rest" Mrs. Angel said, II did not know
where TO turn to. 1 had valuable furni-
ture lace curtains. rugs, jewelry that my
husband had given me ana clothing.
1.-The wife of my husbands first cousin.
Mrs. Ella Angel, the woman whom mad
arrested for the misrepresentation OF my
chatteIs. asked me to visit her in College
Point. l.. l. 1 consented, never suspecting
that she thought l was crazy In TACT,
know that I was perfectly sane"
II went TO live with her in February.
I took my trunks and furniture there and
after 1 had established myself a mutual
friend told me that l might do well TO
take care of my own welfare and not trust
my health to relatives
u decided to go to Providence, but by
mistake l took the Fall River boat The
two lines are on the same pier in New
York and the cabman drove me up to the
wrong box office.
self in Fail River instead of in Providence
| had wanted TO be with my mother-ln-laW
in Providence. ] was awfully disappoint-
ed and didn't know what to do. l went
to a hotel and then sent for the nearest
when the doctor came he decided that
I was in 50 nervous a state that | had
better be sent to the Union Hospital
stayed there eighteen days, and Mrs. Ella
Angel came up after me. she brought
me back 20 her home and there was
chance for ME to get away. although one
night l tried to escape. asked only 1or
writing material. an envelope and
stamp ] wanted to communicate with my
relatives in Lebanon, Pa.
SENT TO ASYLUM.
After 1 had been there two weeks Doc
tor, John J. MACPHERSON and Doctor Good
ridge we're called In and I was committed
to The Kings Park Insane Asylum as a
paupeT. ,.,- -.
Mrs. Angel is now stopping at No IS
seventh avenue College Point. interrupted
TO tell how she and her husband had IN
terested themselves in the case only "a
neighborS and had obtained MIS-. AngeIl
release from the asylum.
- said Mrs. krimp. only knew Mrs.
Angel through our mutual friend. Wheh
/ heard that she had been sent to an
ASYLUM I wrote to John J. Zimmerman,
the Chief of Police Of Lebanon. Pa, and
he with Mrs Ansell's brother, Walter J.
Wolfe. came here They went TO Judge
Moore at Flushing. who had signed the
papers. and also TO District
Attorney Gregg. Mr.. Gregg made a thor
ough investigation OF the case and the re-
suit was the arrest of Mrs. Ella Angel
At first Mrs. AnSel was paroled IN the
held in $3.50 bail on charge of grand lar
ceny and the trial fixed for September "a.
When Mrs. Lillian Angel was released |
from Kings Park Asylum she went to her
PennsylVania nm home. Then she came back
70 Drosecute Mrs. Ella Angel, and as, she |
says, to get her things
SHE APPEARS RATIONAL
Mrs Lillian Angel is very good-look-
ing woman. No one would think that she
had been through so much trouble. She
anpears rational. is a good conversation
aiist and even when talking about the dis
appearance of her husband shows no sign
Of mental weakness.
1--WE were awfully happy she said
What has become of Mr.. Angel 1 don't
know. We didn't have any children and
I think as his mother does, that ne mas
met with foul play"
Mrs Angel says that she is also going
TO bring a civil action against her mar
riage relative after the criminal case has
been disposed of.
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