The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-13
BEAUTY DOCTOR A PRISONER.
SCARED MY FACE, ONE WOMAN
SAYS OF NELDEN.
Didn't Set My Ears Back and Left My
Double Chin and wrinkles On, Declares
AnOther-He the Man VINO Started

| double Chln ana wrinkles ON, Declares
Another--He's the Man VINO Started
st. GreEOry's Hospital Downtown.
DR.. Andrew l.. Nclden, who has an office
and an institute" at 10 East Twenty ninth
street and who recently started st. Gregory 3
Hospital in Gold street to compete with
the Hudson street hospital for acct
dent cases near the Brooklyn Bridge, was
arrested last night on warrant charging
him with obtaining money under false
pretences. He was locked up at Police
Headquarters. Not long ago he made a
bid for fame by announcing that he had
grated an ear on a man and later that he
grated a finger on a woman.
| DR.. Nelden was arrested on the COM
plant of Mrs. Josephine Ware Of Denver,
who charges that he contracted to smooth
out wrinkles on her face and forehead,
and after more than six weeks treatment
| left her face badly SCARED. Three other
out Of town women have made complaints
to the District Attorneys Office that they
were similarly treated. Three women and
a man, all patients, were found in DR..
Nelden's house when he was arrested.
In her complaint Mrs. Ware says that
she first heard of DR.. Nelden out in Denver
| from some of his literature describing the
"Nelden Institute and Sanitarium for
Plastic Featral Surgery" In the litera-
ture DR.. Nelden was pictured as "the man
who makes faces" He advertised that he
| had a method for removing facial erup-
tons and scalp trouble.
Mrs. Ware came on here and saw DR..
Nelden at his house. She wanted some
| Ill hor fprohoaI
face. He told her. she says, that it was
possible to remove the wrinkles without
pain and that many other women had been
successfully treated. She would have to
stay at his house during the treatment and
pay $500 down and $3.50 weekly.
She saws she stayed at the house for
about a month. but didn't get enough to
eat and went to a boarding house, but
continued to visit DR.. Nelden for two weeks
after that Or. Neden, she declares,
/ guaranteed to rid her OF the wrinkles in
two weeks, but at the end Of ak weeks
she still had the wrinkles and in addition
her face was badly Scared. She believes
| that DR.. Nelden used carbolic solution.
Mrs. Ware went to Post Office Inspector
Mayer about it. He told her that it was
case for the police and, after she had
seen acting Inspector O'Brieh, Detective
Sergeant McConville took her to the Dis
trict Attorneys office. There she saw
! Assistant District Attorney Chadwick, to
whom she made her complaint.
Mr.. Chad wick decided to try TO get
other compliments, and inside OF few
DAYS he had three out Of town women who
were ready to assist in the prosecution
OF Nelden. One of the women is Mrs.
r. W. Cash OF Washington, who says that
she paid DR.. Nelden $500 to remove double
chin, make some wrinkles disappear and
set her ears back"-they were too big.
Mrs. Cash says she still has the double chin
and wrinkles and her ears don't sit back.
Magistrate McAvoy issued a warrant for
DR.. Nelden yesterday afternoon, and Nc
| Conville went to his home and after making
the arrest looked over the place for evidence.
He found the four patients and some letters
from other patients who had evidently been
treated by mail. The patients present
were Miss Belle Sherer Of Sheldon, Ia,
who said she had paid DR.. Nelden SIS to
have her nose Strengthened; Miss Goldman
of Pittsburg, who said she had put up
500 to have a scar removed; Mrs. Wesley
| B, Allen of New Haven, who was to have
her ears set back and her hair treated,
and Lincoln f. Copeland OF La Rue, o.,
who said ne had paid slo0 down and was to
| nav 5000 more to have birthmark on his
| cheek eradcated. Mrs. Ware, by the way,
SAYS she paid Nelden about 81 900 before
| she quit him.
The four patients, whose faces were all
more or less SCARED. were left In charge
| of Mrs Nelden when the doctor was taken
to Police Headquarters. McConville looked
| through dress suit case filed with letters,
either asking about treatment or COM
planning of treatment that had been re-
oeived Three letters were from lawyer
and his wife OF Globe, Ariz., and they are
| samples of the others. The first letter
was from the woman. She said she had
seen Or. Neldens advertisements describ-
ing facial treatment for patients at a
distance" She said she enclosed the neces-
sary money for treatment that would re-
move freckes. Then there was another
letter from her which said
Il have used the jar Of ointment, and
it has worked in very Unsatisfactory
manner My face, besides being very
rough, is badly broken out, and is still
freckled and wrinkled. l think had the
lar been larger it might have done its work.
|
| In worse condition
The third letter was from the woman's
husband. He said the second advice had
been received, hut that his wife was worse.
Her face has come out in terrible hlotches, I"
he wrote. IT'S dark presumably the
blotches), while her complexion is fair
and she ie blond. Kindly advise what
to do--what to do to protect her against
her misfortune
McConville says he understands that
Hope Booth and another actress named
Miss Hazel Temple Of the "Fantana' COM
pany have recently been treated by DR..
Nelden. Miss Temple had few days to
spare before going on the road, McCon-
Vile saws but since she has been to DR.,
Nelden she hasn't started on the road trip.
McConville says that Mrs Augusta Sher-
win of Washington. sister OF Mrs Cash,
will probably be witness against Nelden.
Not long ago, according to McConville,
DR.. Neden advertised for an attractive
woman, giving minute deails as to the
features of the woman he wanted. Mrs,