The Cairo bulletin., 1906-02-02
AN AUTHOR CAST
IN A MADHOUSE
WOMAN WHO WROTE SCHOOL
PRIMERS CHARGES coNsPiR-
AcY ASKING DAMAGES.
HER HUSBAND SUICIDED
She Is Also Plaintiff IN Suit Filed
BY An Attorney Who Secured
Her Release From the
ASYLUM.

New York, Feb. Mrs. Il. e. Ken
yon Warner, an educator who for
years has taught the young, who
wrote the primers for hundreds Of
schools and who has been called one
of the greatest educators of children
In America. Is both defendant. and
plaintiff in suit. She charges that
her attorney conspired with her hus-
band to keep her confined In an in
sane asylum, and 1t Is matter OF po-
lice record that when she obtained her
liberty her husband committed sui
eide.
Her former lawyer. Isaac 4. Rus
sell, professor OF the New York Law
school, recently brought suit against
her to collect $500 attorneys fees.
She has retaliated with demand for
$4,000, asking Judge Walsh OF the
Second Municipal court OF Brooklyn
to give her $500, the limit Of the
courts power, asserting in the same
papers claim for the full amount
In these papers she charges that
while sane she was confined in an
asylum from July 4. 1904. until Octo-
Der % of the same year. On the first
day of her Incarceration she en-
ployed Professor Russell to get her
out.
Conspiracy 10 Charged.
She alleges that she did nothing to
aid her. but that, on the other hand.
he conspired with her husband to keep
her imprisoned, and she charges he
received money from him for that pur-
pose Her relatives, she claims. pro-
cured her release.
Il shall see IL am to be com
pelled TO pay an attorney who has
worked against my interests, she
| said tonight
ELLEN ID Kenyon nine years ags WAS
married to Elmer II. Warner She was
a writer and he was an electrical en-
| q neer. They came to New York 70
| live and work out their future. She
wrote something for children 10 read
and finally this was submitted 10 d.
Appleton & Co.. who publ'fh text
books for primary schools. He went
to work for -he Belmont interests and
laidsd In the construction OF the sub
way. She succeeded and her books are
! in schools throughout the country TO-
day.
| Warmers salary was not large. al
| though he worked hard. His wifc's in
come was constantly growing. She
bought property in Charleston. n. u.
and she went there with her husband
to live.
Thrust Into Madhouse.
| Mrs. Warmers fourth ser es of books
was about to be printed by ID. Apple
ton e. Co, when the anthoress was
rudoly seized, she claims. by three
men and two women, carried bodily
into cab and taken to the Middle
ton Homeopathic hospital at Middle
town. n ", where she was confined
as an insane person.
Upon the day Of her commitment
she communicated upon the a1yice OF
a friend, with Professor Russell and
the latter bases his suit for attorneys
fees upon his efforts To secure her
release.
Relatives ultimately took her from
the asylum upon parole and two
months later she was released from all
obligations and the order OF commit
ment was rescinded
In the meantime. however, ID. APP
pleton 4 Co had cancelled all con
tracts with Mrs. Warner. aud she
AYERS In her complaint that she Is
ruined authoress. That Is the basis Of
her claim for $50,0Oa.
Her husbands tragic death Is not
mentioned in the lega; papers that
have been filed She saws. however.
that he was found dead in the Hotel
Manhattan February 2. 1905. and bis
room illed with gas that bad escaped
from an open jet.
The original suit brought by Mir.
Russell will come up for hearing
February IS The answer has been
made part Of that suit.