The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08
MAD ABOUT Hts PARENTAGE.
KING. WHO SHOT SISTERS or
CH4RITY. GOING TO NATTEAWAN.

sister, DO Not know His Origin.
INIT He sticks to HIS Grievance.
Henry @. King. founding. who has spent
s.vep wears trying to find out who his par
ants were and has shot two sisters OF the
Founding Asylum In pursuit OF his knowl-
e1oe. Ia to DO sent to the Matteawan Asylum
for the criminal insane. After his con-
viction before Recorder Goa some six or
sight months ago In the General Sessions
for shooting the sisters, King, who Is III
wears old, was sentenced to State prison.
but the Recorder. who had denied before the
trial an application for the appointment OF
an insanity commission. changed his mind
And appointed one, an unusual proceeding.
The commission has just reported that
King is insane on the subject Of his parent
age The dividing line. however. between
sanity and insanity. is a very 1no one In his
case for his quest has been pertinacious
and he has been very methodical about It,
keeping a record Of everything that has
had any bearing on his case. He believes
that his parents were persons OF some con-
sequence because through the sisters he
has been kept quite well supplied with
money even when he said that he did not
want money, but information a. to his par
.ntage. and would rather have work than
money.
A rule Of the institution had some part
in the action Of the sisters In refusing to
let him see the entries in their books con-
corning him. and he believed that there was
evidence that they had suppressed which
would have established his identity.
This point was not cleared up on his trial.
the rules Of evidence forbidding. The
insanity commission, however, did 60
into IL. The books OF the asylum threw no
light on Kings birth.
Frank Moss was chairman OF the commits
sion and the other Commissioners were DR..
James E. Kelly and Charles s. Campbell.
King was left In the cradle at the door OF
the Founding Asylum In 1871. Nothing
disclosing his identity was left with him, &C.
cording to sworn testimony by the sisters.
He was kept in the asylum until he was
years old and then he went to Charlestown,
Md, with some farmers named Dunn and
worked for them until be was 81.
In 1896 he met one Charles W. Stanglers
in Philadelphia who told him that he might
he the child born to a certain German woman
while her husband was at sea. The hus-
hand. returning. disclaimed the child which
was taken away and never reappeared,
he was told This child. IL found would
come into an inheritance of &sss, 900. The
story started King In the quest that will
lind him in an insane asylum.
He came to New York and called at the
Founding Asylum where he saw Sister
Mary Teresa Vincent and asked her who
he was She eaid that his perentege was
unknown. He did not believe her. He
took a ball bedroom near the asylum az d
was unremitting In his calls and his ques-
tons He could not be rebufed. He
wanted to look over the asylum books.
but was not permitted. as they contained
entries concerning others of whom he had
no right 70 know. This was not made
clear to him, however, but was explained
70 the Commissioners. Tho sisters we're
liberal to him, however. with gifts Of money
that have amounted to several hundred
dollars, he says They sisters explained to
out Of a fund that was given them by
saw At
King didn't understand this, however
and became convinced that they had in
formed his parents that he was on their
trail and that the parents were sending him
money, IL IuhDc nitti Atoic co&cie ~ ~
strengthened his belief that his parents
were well-to-do.
He wrote letters to every person Of whom
he heard who might furnish q clue to his
birth al he haunted the sisters 80 peril
naciousiy that twice they had him arrested.
He went to the Supreme Court about the
matter, but got no satisfaction, and once
he feigned suicide, supposing. he said
that the sisters would relent and tell him
al he Tod tn know A. thav did
he went up one day in the summer OF 1901
and shot two Of them and thereby event
ually learned under oath all they had TO
tell. which was nothirsS more than he had
already been told. Tbs sisters survived
their wounds.
One session Of the commission was held
q, the Founding Asylum. At the next
session Of the commission Mr.. Moss told
King what they had learned:
Il told them said Mr.. Moss. that by
their conduct they had given you reason
10 believe these things which you have
always believed. and that In talking with
others they had taken the same view OF
|, and that in their refusal TO show you
book entries and In their ignoring your
counsel, in refusing summons TO court
proceedings Ia all these matters, they
had given you reason for looking at the
thing in the way you have done.
have had too much dealing with those
SISTERS, replied King 10 believe that
show you all the records they had
Have you no gratitude. Mr.. King,
asked Mr. Campbell. for what these people
have done for your They took care Of
YOU and put you in good home; have you
no gTstilude'"
Il have responded King. 'and II this
money came out u their pockets ] never
should oeas@ 10 he ashamed Of myself
but ~ long as that money N not accounted
Tor and as long ~ they will not tell me
where they 60, me from, don't 80 whsre
there is any room for gratitude
There "a . possibility u your b~ins
mistaken
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lie II not impo-siblst
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II II has b.sh possible for you 10 In nlls-
lAkan. then you must reinemtef that " u
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