The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-02-13
PREACHER WENT
INSANE AFTER
INFANTS DEATH

New York, Feb. l3.-with the departure
yesterday OF the Rev. r. o. Hadley for
Seattle. Wash, a mysterious episode OF
the Hotel sturtevant in West Thirty-ffth
street was finished.
A man more than six feet tall. dressed
IDENTIFY in a precarious state OF health, ar
rived in a cab at the hotel on the night
OF Jan. q
They had with them child about eigh-
teen months old The man, whose speech
Indicated a superior education, said that
on account OF HIS wifes condition they
mad been turned from several hotels.
They we're taken in at the Sturtevant,
and took a small suite. The man regis
tered as r. o. Franklin. No one guessed
that he was a minister.
Before dsybreak DR. A. Parker Smith,
81 No. 1s1 West Thirty-sixth street was
sent for A healthy-looking boy was born.
A graduate nurse was engaged The
physician saw the mother and child daily
On Friday. Jan. 26, the infant died OF
some digestive trouble.
In giving DR.. Smith the facts for the
burial certificate the man gave his name
again as Franklin. Next day the nurse
observed that Mr.. Hadley was acting
strangely.
Late in the afternoon Mrs. Hadley call
ed her from her work in an adjoining
room. She saw Hadley brandishing a
knife. and the mother clutching to her
breast the surviving baby. The nurse
called help. and hotel servants overpow-
cred the gigantic Hadley,
The police took him to Bellevue Hospi-
tai In a patrol wagon, and he was placed
under observation in the psychopathetic
ura ~ IL Of iotn
tia.
Next day Mrs. Hadley told Or. Smith
that Or. Butte Of Madison, NJ j.. ought
20 be notified. Or. Smith could find no
such name In the telephone book and
asked the patient for more particulars
''Dr. Buttz," she said. "is president OF
Drew Theological Seminary OF Madison,
and my husband, who has been studying
there, r. not Mr.. Franklin, but Mr.. Had
lev" she said
When President Henry A. Buttz OF
Drew heard from DR.. Smith ne was great
ly interested.
we have been searching everywhere
for Mr. Hadley since he suddenly disap-
peared from Madison on Jan. 81" said ne,
"1'll come on the next train"
While President Buttz was arranging 10
take Mr.. Hsdley TO a sanitarium at Cnld-
well he told DR. Smith that the man was
tion. He was an ordained minister OF
about sfteen years service who had come
East from his charge near Seattle for n
course OF special studies.
In December MIR. Hadley and n son,
about ten years old. had been III with
diphtheria The boy died. Large doses of
antitoxine had been given TO Mr.. Hadley
ana he had been delirious much OF the
time during his illness and convnlescence
Since his recovery, Or. Buttz had been
Informed, Mr. Hadley had not seemed 20
bo right IN his mind
His brother-in-law. the Rev Or. Gil
lies OF Seattle arrived NJ Madison last
week. and after n consulta ton with DR.
Butte agreed 20 take Hndley back 10
Washington. They came TO New York last
Friday. expecting 20 nnd Mrs Hadley
we'll enough 20 NO with them. She, how
ever had had such setback through her
anxiety over her husbands condition.
that N was decided 90 leave her AT tho
sturtavant until her physician should
pronounce her NJ for the long Journey.
DR.. Gillies and Mr.. Hadley left together
yesterday.