The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-09
MYSTERY ABOUT
 THIS MANS DEATH Brodie |. Duke Dies in New
 York Sanitarium HAD s6O,OoO IN POCKETS Was Taken in Custody at Instance of Relatives Who Claimed He Was
 Mentally Unsound-sub-
 poena for Witnesses.
HAD S6O,OOO IN POCKETS

New York, January S.-Incidents follow ed each other fast today in the affairs of Brodie L. Duke, who was committed to sanitarum Saturday on account of his mental condition. They eliminated tonight in the siege of the house of Georget Mallory, Mrs. Dukes attorney, by a woman, who said she was the law yers client. He refused to have her ad- mitted and for five minutes she tried to gain an entrance.
 The Bellevue hospital authorities have deposited with District Attorney Jerome bends. stocks, notes and checks, said to have a face value of $60,000 found in the pockets of Mir. Duke when he was taken Into custody at the instance of his rel atives. on the ground that he was not mentally competent to manage his own affairs. MT. Dukes commitment to a senitarium was signed by Justice Wy att, of the court of general sessions, and Dr. Gregory, acting superintendent of Bellevue hospital said today that Duke was afflicted with a type of dementia.
 Retained by Mrs. Duke.
 George H. Mallory, a lawyer, said he had been retained by Mrs. Duke in con- nection with some contracts in Texas lands in which she was interested be- fore her marriage. Tonight, however, he declined to admit to his house woman whom the servants say gave the name of Duke.
 MT. Mallory was averse to enter into a discussion of the transactions. There are among the papers in the temporary custody of the district attorneys of flee three promissory notes for $500O each, said to have been made on December 5 last by MT. Duke to Miss Webb, four days before their marriage, and due jn three, four and five months. MT. Nal lory said he had an idea they were to be used in connection with the financing of the Texas-Cuba Tobacco company, of which Mrs. Duke was president before her marriage.
 MT. Mallory said he had no information as to the list of securities found in the possession of MT. Duke. Among them were bonds of the cities of New Orleans and Durham, N C., stock of the Com monwealth Cotton company and various bank notes In Durham and other south ern cities. The face value of these secur- ities was S4O000 with notes and a check bearing a face value of S10,OOO additional. Valuable Prospectus Among Papers.
 Among the documents in the case is the prospectus of axas-Cuba To- heeco e.losapv aa-ah said to have tlaasaHa acres able land at s s-s4r raaat Tex lnection with tuH alHfs .rsHlf ltal seems to 4ts acsas-es nHag the effects 5 Ar 4frHa wlfe f. ter heads of fia eoHeeeH. Rhiel --.>4eaued that it had lle -...uence of certain persons to whom the company announces it refers by per- mission.
 The references of the corporation are E. A. Blount, president of the Commer- cal National bank of Nacogdoches, Tex G. B. Shaw of the National Life building, Chicago, and F. L. Webster cashier of the First National bank of Vanwert, Ohio. Mrs. Duke and her associate, Mrs. Agnes Desplaines, left the Park avenue hotel today and are now at a hotel in the upper part of the town. Both the women were served with subponeas to- day, directing them to appear before the grand jury tomorrow, but the reason for this move was not made public by the district attorneys office.