The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29
WRIT TOGETPAGE'S WIFE OUT.
SITtF fF iFiTDtIJTS TIL ar SHE
Is N0Y 4 ERI NKARD.
tho naGC Committed - Days ts0 at Her IIus-
'.7nh's instance. and Fr!cnns Who Say
the FrctS We're MisreI resented Get
. Uabcas Corpus Nhrn Tilcs Hear II.

UabcaS Corpus When Tie. Hear ".
\ uri; Of hghnaN corpus for the release
r.r r Aani0riUm Of Mrs. Jeanie France
Irfo, wife Of Henry W. A. Page, a cotton
morohart. was asked for yesterday by W.
Il. O!cc,t, who submitted a shelf Of
rTaavits to Justice Newburgcr.
week. ago yesterday. on aftiiavitE sub
m 'ci by Mr. Page and the certificates
IT, Drs. Edward Livingston Hunt and
I c'cr.ok Peterson, Justice ! %eventritt is
eun AZ or,icr committing Mrs. Page to
g.. ,isvio,ir's eanitHrium at lnwood. The
iNAav,ts and certificates declared that
tir- PAGE was an habitmal druukard and
~iil.rlci to drugs. On the representations
,uuiainod in the afidavits, to the effect
l.p' Mrs. Page was in no condition to be
AerreA with legal Ia pere, Justice Leventritt
eynressly inserted in the commitment n
clause waving the service Of paper on
re-. Mrs, Page was then taken OF to the
r7uitarium by her husband. After reading
The afidavits presented by Mr.. Olcott yester-
day. Justice N~ewburger said that ne woull
Look into Mrs. Pages case again and granted
A writ calling for her production in court
On Monday morning.
In his affidavit ex-Judge 0lcott declares
that Mrs. Page is personally known to him
and that he does not believe her to be in
temperate or a drug nend. He has never
observed. he says, during his acquaintance
with her any indications Of such habits.
He adds that he believes that Mr.. Page,
by deceitful and false representations to
The court, procured the commitment OF
Mrs. Page to st. Saviour's for the sole
purpose of getting rid Of her.
tf=sttt H.,
Page, says in his affidavit that he was for
pome time employed by Mr.. Page, but was
unable to stay because Of Pages ungovern-
able temper. He swears that he never
observed any signs Of intoxication in his
aunt, but did notice that she was frequently
made historical by her husbands onduct.
The principal affidavit is that of Mrs.
William r. Leonard Of 255 West Ninety
seventh street. She says that she first met
Mrs. Page at the Montclair golf inks some
wears ago, and that after a while they be-
came close friends.
Mrs. Page, says Mrs. Leonard, was a
most dutiful and affeotionate mother to
her three young children, who have been
taken from her, now that she is in the SAM
tarium. She never drank intoxicants or
took drugs In Mrs. Leonard's presence,
and it was a great surprise, Mrs. Leonard
says, when Mr.. Page informed her that
his wife was a liquor and drug fend. She
did not believe it, and told Page so. At
the same time, she says, Mrs, Page pro-
tested against such a charge and
declared that it was absolutely untrue.
Mrs. Page spent the summer of 1905 with
Mrs. Leonard at Belmar, n. j., until Sep
tember, when Mr.. Page sent her to Eng
land to live with relatives there. At that
time. Mrs. Leonard says, Mr.. Page told
her that his wife was insane, and that he
intended to get rid OF her.
Mrs. Page remained in England until
Two weeks ago, according to Mrs. Leonard,
and then returned with her children, pom
niless, to find her husband. He was at the
buckingham, and she went there, as she
afterward told Mrs. Leonard, but he re-
fused to nave anything to do with her and
raised such a scene that the hotel au-
thorities told him he must leave. Mrs,
Page was sent out also with her children,
one Of them in arms, and, according to the
story related by Mrs. Leonard, she fol-
lowed Page until she lost sight Of him.
Then she appealed to Mrs. Leonard for
help, as she was without a dollar.
The day before her commitment Mrs.
rage UOlu aIIS. btOIdlu VIA shO iuu hoN
another scene with her husband, who had
threatened to have her committed as in
sane. Mrs. Leonard heard no more until
So learned that Mrs. Page had been taken
to st. Saviour's on an order of the court.
>ha visited Mrs. Page there and wa told by
,h, Young married woman Mrs. Page is
chi. sm that she had been lured to the
sanitarium by her husband on the pretext
,l.t l. -o;a- 20 fpI n pioa hon,a for
them, where they could forget their past
troubles and live happily henceforth.
AttIe G.. Names, a nurse, says that she
~opccuiei a. room next to Mrs. Pages at
st2 West T~wenty-third street for the few
days previous to her commitment. She
saws that on April IS she heard a violent
discussion between Mrs. Page and her
husband, in which the latter asked his wife
why she had returned to disgrace him.
She replied, Miss Naanes says, that she
had to return, as she could not live in Eng
land without money. What other home
have ] than yours?7 Mrs. Page asked.
Miss Naanes says that she formed the
lplief from some remarks dropped by
Page that he intended to take possession
cf the three children. In connection with
this, she says, he once turned to her and
Nr'dl'A4Co. u NO' y" v 'Np
lie a witness I'll choke you
The nurse says that during the few days
she knew her she had never observed
any signs Of intoxication or drugging
about Mrs. Page.
Other afidavits to the effect that Mrs.
Pages conduct as a woman and a mother
"a exemplary and that she is anything but
ii drunkard we're made by Corinne L..
Merrill. wife OF Frank Merrill; Mary Kidde
of Montclair and Mr.. and Mrs. William
A, Deering of 293 Central Park West,
In his affidavit IN the application for
the commitment Page declared that his
wife was a morphine and whiskey fiend and
had repeatedly threatened to take her own
and the children's lives. He was once, he
lays, obliged to take a revolver from her
to protect himself. At Nontclair, he said,
Dr. John S.Rrown and DR.. Irving A. Meeker
examined her and treated her for intoxica-
lion.
Mr.. olcott said yesterday that he had
seen all the doctors except Brown, whom
he could not find. Drs. lIlnt and Peterson,
lie says, told him that they had seen Mrs,
Page only ono before making their GER