The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-09
CAPTURE OF DUKES BONDS.
TiLk or PROCEEDING 10 SN.cL
WiRRi tGE TO ALICE U'ERB
Alcoholic Demenila T. the Diagnosis on
Which The Husband was Sent 10 an
As,lum-Pr ognOSis as 10 the Bsnds Is
THAT Mrs Duke WIN Not Get Them.

The Dstric; Attorneys Office appears 10
have lent hand in the proceedings by
which Brodie l.. Duke OF Durham y. C..
brother OF James b. Duke Of the American
Tobacco Company. was taken from his bride
at the Park Avenue Hotel on Friday night.
TO be sent later o Sanford Hall Flushing
asylum for the insane
The $4,000 in stocks aud bonds which
were found on Mr.. Duke al Bellevue are now
in the possession OF Mr. Perkins. one Of Mr.
Jerome's assistants They were turned over
TO him on the Dis, trio, Attorneys order by
the property clerk OF Bellevue There were
no criminal proceedings in the case. but
he fact that the District Attorneys Office
is holding on to the securities was taken
Yesterday as an indication that there might
be II was explained Yesterday by one Of
Mr. Jerome's assistants that Duke was
technically put under arrest on the charge
of insanity. and that that was why his
property is in tho Dis,rict Attorneys hands
aud not in Mrs. Dukes
1t is evidently the intent ion 10 hold on 10
Mr.. Dukes property until certain matters
connected with his marriage have Scen
cleared up. MIR Dukes brothers through
their counsel John d. Lindsay, intend, it IA
said, to appea to the civil courts o have
the marriage annuled The courts have
annulled marriages when il was shown that
ono OF the parties WAS not OF sound mind
The minister who married Mr.. and Mrs
Duke, the Rev. w W. Coe OF DR.. Park
bursts church. believes that Mr. Duke
was in his right mind.
1t appears that the $40.OOO in stocks and
bonds which was found on Duke at Belle.
vue was probably going into a Texas
land scheme Of his wife's. c. n. Mallory
had acted counsel for Mrs. Duke when
she was Miss Alice Webb and c Fred Taylor,
who is said to have been her partner In
brokerage business in Chicago. He had
negotiated for the purchase Of $50 acres
in Texas by company which the woman
and Taylor were forming. which he under
stood was to be financed with Dukes money.
Apparently the deal had been all but con-
cluded when Duke was taken away from
his wife. Mallory, when he learned Of
certain facts dropped Mrs Duke as u client.
Mr.. Mallory said yesterday that Duke
had not appeared in the negotiations until
October last lie did not know how or
when Duke had become acquainted with
Miss Webb and Taylor he said.
Dukes home is in Durham. y. C.. and
he has been here only on occasional
visits lie has three sons. all Of whom.
Il Ia said. make their home there, also Mr..
Dukes father Washington Duke left him
money. and his income IS said TO he So 600
year His first wife left him three years
ago and went TO California, according 10
Dukes story TO the Rev. Mr. Coe when he
got married. He got a divorce from her
last year on the ground Of deserton.
II was said Yesterday that the first Mrs.
Duke still gets an income from the Dukes.
According to the facts in the possession
Of the police who were called in to tech
ncallv put Duke under arrest on Friday
night Mr.. Duke met Miss Webb through
negotiations which she began with him
in regard TO the Texas land scheme Mr.
Duke owns property. in Texas and also in
Florida. Miss Webb, when these nego-
tiatious were begun had apparently just
come here from Chicago, where she had
been running: an investment concern at
POS Ia Sale street with Taylor as her partner,
just how she got Mr. Dukes name Is that
OF person whom she could interest in the
Texas land scheme isn't known. Accord
ing TO the police. however, 1t was as result
Of letters which passed bptween her and
Duke that Duke came here from North
Carolina and first met her
According to the story told to Mr. NAL
Tory by Miss Webb this scheme was to
coloniSe 80 acres which were TO be bought
in Texas by n stock corporation which mad
been formed by Miss Weob aud Taylor
Mallory says chat he had known Taylor on:
in Chicago and that il was from him he
first heard about the scheme. Laet SUM
mer Taylor walked into his Office here with
Miss Webb. who, Taylor explained. belda
for the taking over Of this land.
The owner was 10 get SIS per acre in cash
md $50 in the stock OF the corporation.
The land had since come into possession OF
receiver and he refused to take any stock.
but agreed 10 sell for $50 cash Up TO this
line Mallory said there was no mention
made OF Duke.
THE first | knew OF him explained
Mallory yesterday was late in October
when Miss Webb brought him into my
iffice and introduced him. He said he
wanted to know the status al the deal and
vhether legal title could lie had to this
and M Duke and went over the matter
ogether that night He seemed to ba
,arfcc'!y capable - g-asping the questions
nvciyed and VA perfectly atonal. The
and was qraiauie Cor tobacco growing.
he capita, the Tayor-Nebb company
eeded FOR is scheme wa about 500 ono
n $4,000. / think The hr~t iuimation
had that Mr. Duke was 10 le he angel
n tie scheme was when Mics Webb brought
i'm TO my Office. How much he was 10 put
= don't know bdi think it was about
be price Of the land or $4,000
MIR Duke told M thai hr was going 70
nance the land purchase ] was after
'art informed that Duke had gone down
orth 20 get some securities vita which u
@ this and think it was those which vera
,und Ia his possession saw him n few
avs ago and he seemed perfectly well and
Nj Mallory explained Yesterday that
g did not hear any rumon Ia the effect
nat everything was not right ia the matter
nd regarding Duke until Le learned Of
iem from Nicoll, Anabe 4 Lindsay counsel
n the DUscs and for the American To-
acco Company. He said that they
I'D him that they were going 10 protect
g. Duke from the woman he had married
nj her companion. one Alice or Agnes
esplaiues TO whom Mr. Mallory said he