The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-10
Innate of Psychopathic
Ward at Bellevue.
He Is TAKEN THENCE
And is Conveyed to a Private SAM
tarium. Committed to Bellevue,
il is Said. On a Statement BY
His Son. His Recent
Marriage.
lBy the Assnclated Press.l

New York. Jan. 8.--A man said to
be Brodie L. Duke, So years old, was
taken from the Psychopathic ward OF
Bellevue Hospital tonight by Central
Office detectives to a private s3nitar-
ium. Duke was admitted to the hos
pital Friday night, having been com
mitted by Justice Wyatt. The com
plainant is said to have been son OF
Duke. Among the effects in DUKE s
possession when he was received at the
hospital are said to have been >40,0oo
in bonds. 1t was reported that the
property clerk of the hospital was
summoned to appear today before the
grand Jury with the effects found II.
Dukes possession and that he did So
According to the hospital record OF
the Duke case. William Lindsay, 1of~
nser Senator from Kentucky, was given
as Dukes lawyer. District Attorney
Jerome said he knew nothing about
the case or any connection With the
grand jury, but it is alleged the Belle
yue property clerk took to MIR. Je-
rome's office $4,000 in stocks and
bonds of various enterprises IN Duf-
ham, n. c.. and three notes FOR $5,oVO
each, signed by Brodie :. Duke and IN
favor of Alice Webb. The notes were
dated ON December 1o and were 70
nature IN TWO, tnIee anu NV i'iothNiA"
respectively.
Alice Webb is said to be the man
agement of a hotel where she stays
while in town. to be a members of the
firm of TAYLOR. Webb x Company, an
investment concern with offices III the
Continental Bank building, Chicago.
w. Sheppard. hotel detective, said
that Brodie $. Duke became a guest
at the Park Avenue Hotel late III Oc-
+3ak
Duke and Miss W ebb were married Dy
one of Rev. DR.. Charles II. Park
bursts assistants.
In connection with the above it will
be recollected that a recent telegram
fro mthe News and Observers CORE
spondent at Durham furnished TINS
paper with the following story rela-
Tive to Mr.. Dukes secret marriage 70
Miss Webb, of Chicago:
Durham, n. c., Dec. 22.-(SpecialD
News reached here today and late
this afternoon was verified, that on
Tuesday evening Mr.. B. l.. Duke. OF
this city. was secretly married in New
York, Miss Alice Webb being the
bride They were married, it is SAID,
by DR.. Parkhurst. The rumor is that
Yesterday morning they sailed for
Europe and will be absent from this
country some two months.
The bride it is learned, lived in
Chicago. being the junior member OF
q firm doing business at No. H. La
Sale street. 1t is also said that she
| is a large owner of Independent Cuban
| Tobacco Manufacturing stock ana
! owns other interests III this country.
Mr. Duke left here on No
velnber 23rd, stating that he was go
| ing to New York on important bust
ness matters. Since then nothing has
been heard from him until the news
! came that he was married. So far as
! can be learend this evening he has
! not communicated with any member
of his family or with his private sec
rotary, w. G.. Braham, who has charge
| of his business affairs.
This is Mr.. Dukes third venture
| on the matrimonial sea. His first wife,
q Miss McMannen, of this county, died
| a number of years ago. Later, a few
wears ago he was married TO Miss
| Minnie w. Woodard of Chattanooga.
Tenn. The late divorce proceedings,
at which time Mr.. Duke secured dill
vorce by compromise, are still fresh
| in the minds of the people of the
State.
Mr. Duke is considered a very
| wealthy man. He is a son of Wash
| ington Duke, the founder of the Duke
| business that was the nucleus in form
| ing the great American Tobacco Com
| pany Several years ago he failed in
| business but recuperated his lost for
tunes, paid off all of his accounts and
since then has accumulated large
| holdings. He is supposed to be worth
a million dollars or more.