New-York tribune., 1905-01-11

Vorces. Then they went TO the Madison Square
Church. where they were married by DR.. Park
hursts assistant. After the ceremony there was
a wedding supper at Sherry's
DR.. Huntington said last evening that he had
no knowledge of the refusal of one of his as
sistants TO perform the marriage ceremony in
the case, and there had been no rule at
Grace Church as TO the marriage OF persons who
had obtained divorces for just cause. In case OF
an innocent person who had obtained divorce
DR.. Huntington said the rule OF the church per-
mitted remarriage. but clergyman might de-
cline TO perform the ceremony II he wished
One witness called before Mr.. Lord is a mas
seur who was summoned TO the Hotel Winton
In One-hundred- and-tenth-st to attend Mrs.
Duke few days after the wedding. and found
both Mr.. and Mrs. Duke much under the in
huence Of alcohol, he says. that he advised call
ing doctor. This witness has declared that he
knows of several cases in which elderly men of
means have been decOyed into marriages or
have been kept away from their families in a
helpless state of intoxication and blackmaiIed
by gangs OF women who have headquarters in
Chicago.
Mrs Duke eiuded the detectives yesterday and
could not be found by either the District At
torney's men or the private detectives employed
by attorneys Of the Duke family. The lawyers
for the family said that no intimaton had been
received by them that Mrs. Duke had employed
counsel to defend the suit for the annument of
the marriage, or had started any legal proceed
Ing with View TO obtaining the release of her
husband from the sanstorium.
DR.. Maurice A. Sturm, Mrs Dukes physician.
said she was CRITICALLY H." but he would not
reveal her hiding place. although he at
tending her. He said to have made at
tempt yesterday TO see Mr.. Duke in the Sanford
Hall SanatOrlum, at Flushing, but he refused TO
talk about that last evening He would tell
II he was aiding counsel for Mrs. Duke in lay
ing the basis of an application for a writ Of
habeas corpus.
B. Lawrence Duke. who brings the suit to have
his fathers marriage annulled has been i'll sew
eral days at the Hoffman House. II was said
he had injured himself polo game and had
not recovered when he was called TO this city
suddenly from Durham by the of his
fathers wedding. He able. TO go out of tile
hotel yesterday afternoon but the report that
he had been 10 Flushing to his father was
denied.
Information regarding Brodie l. Duke was re-
fused at the sanatorium yesterday, and the su-
perintendent of the institution. who came to
Manhattan in the afternoon. declined 10 tell jr
he had seen Mr.. Dukes Inmates OF San
ford Hall are surrounded with luxury. but are
more completely shut off from the outside world
than If they were in a prison. No one not
a county or city officer can enter the building
without permission of the officials Of the SAINT
torium, save under court order The hall,
large Colonial house. is elegantly furnished
high fence surrounds three sices OF the spacious
grounds, and in the groves the patients, attend
ed by keepers, take their exercise
OWNS NO TEXAS TOBACCO LAND
Nacogdoches. Tex. Jan. 1O.-Mrs. Duke does
not own any tobacco land in this county. She
and her partner alleged that they bought RedfeId
from s. F. B. Morse. but they never paid for it.
Neither did they pay for having barns built
houses put up shedding erected. the labor
of gathering a tobacco crop. printing. hotel BILL
money borrowed from bank and other claims
The tobacco crop was seized for the board bill
The other creditors got nothing. MISS webb
and Taylor also had a plan for buying the stone
for the national bank and borrowed $2O,OOO 10
make the purchase, but when the directors got
hold of the news they obtained about $1,000
of the money and returned It TO the persons ad-
yancing IT,