The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-03
The puhmes Drought young Chase t.

The Duhmes brought young Chase t.
New York. They hired an expensive suite
at the Waldorf-Astoria, and six stalwart
| men guarded the doors to keep every
| body out. Some said it was also to keep
| young Chase in. The father promptly de-
nlanded extradition papers of Gov. Pin
| of all the Duhmes and their servant Pc
tterman, charging abduction.
| Gov. Pingree refused the application
of the youths father The Duhmes went
leisurely to Boston. stayed there few
days, and then went up TO Canada with
young Chase.
All this time he appeared TO be getting
better and stronger. Legal proceedings
smouldered for a while. till suddenly
Moses Fowler Chase took a hand at the
law himself. He bobbed up in Hamilton,
o., probate court in 1900 with a request
that he be allowed to change his name to
Moses Fowler, dropping the Chase out
OF his name. There Judge Ferris pro-
nounced him sane.
Now came the Queerest part of this
queer proceeding. The Duhmes and young
Chase-or Fowler as he called himself
went to Europe. This was in April 1900
a few days afterward the youth disap-
peared in London and all efforts to find
him were fruitless. Detectives sought
high and low in vain. Ten days later Mrs
Duhme got letter from a small town in
Belgium that her nephew was there sick,
penniless and in distress. Mrs Duhme
found him, took him TO Paris and sap
ped him in sanitarium. where the youth
remained till few weeks ago.
Il was two years in one ROOM" he
sighed when he breathed free air again.
If Moses was sane, as the Duhmes
say demands the father, why did they
put him in a sanitarium and keep him
hidden for almost three years?"
And L have positive evidence an
nounces ex-Judge Hammond. of counsel
for his father that Moses Fowler Chase
has made a will disinheriting his father,
and leaving his entire fortune to Mrs.
Duhme. That is why they are SO anxious
to be made his guardians and to have him
declared sane
And now after three years did the anx-
ious father locate his son, practically a
prisoner, he says in the Paris sanitarium,
after he had all but given up hope?
1t was a hard task, but United Sta ties
sul-General Gowdy finally accomplish
ed it for Mr.. Chase. After thousands of
dollars had been spent for detectives they
stumbled across him in DR.. Cromar's san
itarium, Rue Glaciere, Paris.
"Hopelessly insane" said Drs. Fischer
and Antheaume, who examined young
Chase for Mr. Gowdy.
Thereupon Secretary Hay cabied Mr.
Gowdy TO have himself appointed young
Chase's guardian and to send him back
TO the United States with proper attend
ants. This was promptly done
Meanwhile on March Mr. Chase Sr.,
went before the United States circuit
court in Indianapolis and filed a bill re-
curing the Duhmes TO explain and ac-
count for all the monetary transactions
between them and young Chase. 1t was
set out they had assumed control of the
estate without proper authority
The Duhmes promptly retorted in like
legal yerbiage that young Chase was per-
fectly sane and that they were admins
tering his estate at his request. Now
MIR. Chase wants to know why then his
sons name was concealed when he was
put in the sanitarium. He was taken
there as James Brown" a charge has
been lodged against DR.. Cromar for con-
ealing a patients name. which is punish
able with years Imprisonment In
France
Young Chase has just been taken to
LAFAYETTE, Ind, in care of his father. who |
has been appointed guardian again and
the boyvis now in DR.. Burrs sanitarium.
near Detroit. Both sides have retained
an array of counsel and the case was
opened on April q.