The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-09
HAD NOTES AND CHECKS
 ON HIM WORTH S6O,OOO
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN BRo-
 DIE L. DUKE CASE

Siege to Her Own Attorney's House
 He Refuses to Admit Her-Three
 Promisory Notes for s500O Each Made
 Out to Miss Webb Four Days Before
 Her Marriage to Duke.
 New York, Jan. S.-Incidents follow ed each other quickly to-day in the af- fairs of Brodie L. Duke, who was conn mitted to sanitarium Saturday on ac- count of his mental condition. They eliminated tonight in the siege of the house Of George H. Mallory, Mrs. Dukes attorney, by a woman who said she was the lawyers client. He refus- ed to have her admitted. and for five minutes she tried to gain an entrance.
 The Bellevue hospital authorities have deposited with District Attorney Jerome, bonds, stocks, notes and checks, said to have face value of $6O,000, found in the pockets of Mir. Duke when he was taken into cus- tody at the instance of his relatives on the ground that he was not mental ly comoetent to manage his own af-t fairs. MT. Dukes commitment to a sanitarium was signed by Justice Wyatt of the court of general ses- sions and Dr. Gregory, acting super intendent of Bellevue hospital, said to- day that Duke was afflicted with a type Of dementia.
 George H. Mallory, a lawyer, said he had been retained by Mrs. Duke in connection with some contracts in Texas lands. in which she was inter- ested before her marriage. Tonight, however, he declined to admit to his house a woman, whom the servants said gave the name of Duke. .,s
 Mir. Mallory was averse 70 entering into any discussion of the transactions. There were among the papers in the temporary custody of the district at torney's office three oromissory notes for s5,000 each, said to have been made on December 5 last by Mir. Duke to Miss Webb. four days before their marriage. and due in three. four and i've months, Mir. Mallory said he had an idea they were to be used in con- nection with the financing of the Tex as-Cuban Tobacco company, of which Mrs. Duke was president before her marriage.
 MT. Mallory said he had no inforna- ton as to the list of the securities found in the possession of Mir. Duke Among them were bonds of the cities of New Orleans and Durham. N. C.: stock of the Commonwealth Cotton company and various bank stocks in Durham and other southern cities. The face value of these securities was s40,- 900, with notes and check bearing a face value of s10,000 additional. Among the documents in the case Is the pros pectus of the Texas-Cuba Tobacco company, which is said to have sthou- sands of acres of arable land at Na- cogdoches, Texas. In connection with this enterprise further capital seems to have been necessary.
 Among the effects of Mir. Duke were found letter heads of this concern, which indicate that it had the confi- dence of certain persons to which the company announces 1t refers by per mission. The references of the corpo- ration are F. A. Blount, president of the Commercial bank, Nacogdoches, Texas; G. B. Shaw. of the National Life building, Chicago, and F. l.. Web- ster, cashier of the First National bank of Van Vert, O.
 Mrs. Duke and her associate, Mrs. Agnes Desplaines left the Park avenue hotel in the upper part of town. Both the women were served with subpoenas to-day, ordering them to appear before the grand jury tomorrow, but the req son for this move was not made pub lie by the district attorneys office.