Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-07
NOT THE SAME PERSON
MRS. MINOR MORRIS NOT TREAT
ED BY DIR. WEAVER.
Statement of Asheville On. c. Citi-
zen of the Circumstances Under
Which the Story Was Told.

A complete denial of the statement of Dr.
H. B. Weaver of Asheville, n. c., that he
had two years ago treated Mrs. Minor Nor
ris for insanity has been made through the
Asheville Citizen of the 5th instant. Sew
eral days previously DR.. Weaver modified
his first statement that he had treated Mrs.
Morris for insanity and said that she
was suffering from nervousness" The de-
NAL of his story about the treatment of
Mrs. Morris having been widely published,
DR.. Weaver now declares that it was an
other Mrs. Morris that he referred to, and
that he did not intend that his letter on this
subject should be published at all.
This withdrawal of the statement on the
part of DR.. Weaver is generally declared to
be another demonstra ton of the justice of
the demand for an investigation of the Mrs.
Morris case, as the papers sent to the Sem
ate committee on post offices and post roads
from the White House. and printed for the
confidential use of the Senate, are filed with
statements that could be shown to be false
if an opportunity were offered by a genuine
investigation into this case.
The Asheville Citizens Statement.
The Asheville Citizen of May says:
"It is now fairly well established that
the Mrs. Minor Morris. whose treatment
by Assistant Secretary Benjamin Barnes
at the White House offices several months
ago has caused the holding up in the Sen
ate of his nomina ton as postmaster of
Washington, d. c., Is not the Mrs. Morris
who was treated in AshevilIe for nervous
attacks, which caused her to be very er-
ratio.
Republican State Chairman T. S. Rol-
Inns learned that a Mrs. Morris had been
treated here several years ago by DR.. H. Il.
Weaver and being desirous of aiding the
administration, and being so requested by
the chief of police of Washington, secured
frAy llr q a
that Mrs. Morris was in a condition SO
very nervous that she was erratic. The
letter was not intended for general use,
but its statements seemed to be conclusive
of the fact that Mrs. Morris was of such
excitable and nervous temperament that
she imagined things that did not happen
at the time when she and several news
paper representatives who were present at
the occurrence stated that she had been
bodily carried from the White House offices
by negro employees at the direction of Barnes
when she simply insisted that she should
see the President. Her statement was
readily believed by those who have visited
the White House grounds and are acquaint-
ed with the arbitrary manner people are
treated by the employees, who will have
them arrested, not for the violation of any
law, but for doing any act they do not
fancy.
Another Mrs. Morris.
Some one violated DR.. Weaver's conf
dence in a desire to bolster up Barnes, ana
caused the statements of the letter to be
publishedd thus placing DR.. Weaver IN
the attitude of betraying the confidence OF
a patient to the public in the eyes Of those
who do not know him. This violation of
confidence must necessarily have been by
some person of some Importance.
"It Is now certain that DR.. Weaver did
treat Mrs. Morris, and. by coincidence, the
wife of a physician. as the Washington
Mrs. Morris is. but the two are different
persons"