The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-29
CUT OFF FROM LIGHT
Interviews With Attorney Champe An
drews and Secretary Bramham Civ
ing the First Authentic Detailed
Statement Of Brodie Dukes Side---
Thrilling Legal Complications
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By Il. L.. GRAY.

Durham, y. c.. Dec %, 1905
Follows the concrete story of the case
of Miss Alice Webb-Duke and Brodie
Duke. as seen by the attorneys and
friends of e. L. Duke. The informa-
ton below was obtained partly from
Attorney Champe Andrews, who rep
resented Mr.. Duke in the nabeaS COR
pus proceedings before Judge Gaynor
by which the bridegroom of the adj
ventures was liberated from the sani-
tarium where he had been held
through proceedings instigated by his
son, partly from statements made by
Mr.. w. c. Bramham. whose energy
set in motion the wheels of the law
bringing about such release. and partly
from information cleaned from other
responsible sources.
The tale as it is unfurled reads like
I chapter from a dime novel. 1t
CLEANS With lights of ayarice ana
passion. of woman's wiles; il is thick
with plot and counter-plot. How
Brodie Duke, the hero of a hundred
former situations full Of sensat ton. was
married to Miss Webb. how a week or
so later he was seized While with his
bride in their apartments in the Park
Avenue Hotel in New York and car
ricd struggling and without explana-
there he Was NhislSed away to the
private Sanitarium sanford Hail."
at Flushing and there kept solitary
prisoner ex-communicado for ten days:
how he was finally released by Judge
Gaynor on habeas corpus proceedings
brought to diSprovc the charge of in
sanity preferred by his son Lawrence
b. Duke; and how. finally. upon his
release Mr.. Duke discarded the wo-
man, now in prison for fraud. by red
SON CT chapters of her past life which
We're revealed to him by reason of the
stir caused by the sensation of his
legal abduction are the guide posts of
the story which have come out from
day to day in the dry rectals Of fact
contained in the conservative reports
Of the Associated Press.
Back of these pregnant bits of ac-
ton the story as told by Mr.. Brodic
Duke and as surmised by his friends
is one that includes the iusts and hates
and intrigue of a master drama. Writ
ing TO Il public we'll versed in the main
facts. it is better to begin simply al
the beginning. as it is seen by MI.
Brodie Duke. and TO so correlate the
facts as they appear in the running
measure of the tale so as TO admit of a
judgment outside of what is neces-
sarily a partisan view.
\ jealous and Degenerate Son.
n sc pOl LiOii vi lnt DuDilC VI liz
State will have little difficulty in re-
calling Mr.. Lawrence 3. Duke. the
only son of the defendant in what is n
cause celebre even in New York where
things happen without "a ripple that
would throw other communities into
commissions. Mr.. Lawrence Duke was
essentially a. sport and he lacked the
quality of knowing when he had
enough. He was constantly in trouble
When he arrived at new place he
was breeze that raised the dust. Mr..
Duke, was conscientious traveller in
his State and his reputation spread
behind him as he went. His home
town he kept uneasy. with vagaries
that were explosive and unprecedented
The police he kept always in doubt
and his father himself periodically a
drunk lard, suffered from that fact per-
hapS the more acutely the caprice OF
his heir. In many ways he tried 10
save him from disgrace and to induce
him TO work. but TO no avail. Mr..
Duke The younger knew the cash value
of his name and felt the immunities Of
his family's wealth. 1t was on July
). 1900. when Raleigh and Durham
were playing ball game on Durham
grounds that there started the Sc
auence of events which caused the
father to forbid the son his house.
RumorS TO the contrary. | have ii from
u. l.. Dukes attorney that he had
never disinherited him.
ON that 9Th of JULY, Mr.. Lawrence
Duke went to the ball game in a state
of gross intoxication and there n
suited in the most vile language sew
er;ii people, among them gentleman
and his lady escort. On the same day
at his fathers house, he assaulted his
sister. striking her with looking
glass and upon the remonstrauce OF
his father he went to the latterS Of
Z, Golf at h1N N1nIt
aud with Il pistol in hand cursed and
abused his father until the police came
and arrested him by force. He was
trled before Mayor MCGOWAN. fined
nnu bound over TO court as common
ha e, Later. in his absence. MS
ZIG having been forfeited he was
,;p'ssented in the Superior Court oy
n nas aileie u. f. Duke whose attorney
the costs and fines heinz maid bv his
relatives in Durham
from that day, when he was sent