Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29

Washington who wanted to undertake to
say she was not dragged the most arrant
liar. to say nothing of the newspaper men,
who stood looking at the pitiful spectacle,
who have been prepared. when summoned
authoritatively. to bear witness to II. but
who have not been asked or permitted to
give their evidence under oath, and all of
them are gentlemen"
DR.. Weaver Scored
DR.. Weaver lent himself he said ito
the dirtiest conspiracy, the effort to convict
this woman of being crazy.
They had failed through Frech," he con-
tinued, ION the charge of insanity, sworn
to the evening of her arrest. and that was
long after her friend Mr.. Guthridge had
gone and deposited the So required in an
ordinary case OF diSorderly conduct. They
had kept her there in the hope. 1 suppose,
that the two physicians whose duty 1t Is to
pass upon such cases would adjudge her
insane and hustle her off to st. Elizabeth.
But the two doctors, Wall and Burch,
would not sign any such certificates al
though DIR. Burch did say in his statement
given to Maj. Sylvester later that he
thought there was something wrong with
was crying. She was outraged. She had
been brutaIized or had been cruelty treated.
And who would not? What woman, wheth-
hfbited those ordinary attributes of the
female sex under such circumstances?'
He referred to Mrs. Thornburgh's state
ment that Mrs. Morris had dropped down
on her knees and prayed at the house of de-
tention.
1T is not for me-, he declared, ito COM
ment what Mrs. Thornburgh's opinion
in regard to these prayers was. l am not
praying man myself, at least / pray very
seldom, and mostly my prayers are voice.
less. but 1t lis strange proposition that be-
cause woman under the conditions which
surrounded Mrs. Morris prayed she should
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He then referred to the letter written to
Mr.. Loeb by DR.. Bascom Weaver of Ashe
vile. N. c.. saying he had treated Mrs.
Morris for insanity.
In that letter he said DR.. Weaver, II he Is
worthy of the name of doctor. which 1
very much doubt, stated that he had treated
Mrs Minor Morris two years ago on her
way from Florida to the north, and that
she was "a crank and unbalanced" AS
soon as this became known-and I let DR..
and Mrs. Morris know ft-they furnished
me an affidavit sworn to here by a notary
public, that neither of them had ever been
in the city of Asheville at ali, two years ago
or at any other time.
Mr. Guthridge, he said from the house of
detention had telephoned to Barnes and he
had refused to have her released. So that
BARNES was responsible not only for her
arrest but for her continued incarceration.
Again referring to Dr. Weaver. he said:
THE Idea is incomprehensible to me that
a man of the south, who occupies position
which they say this man has held. should
undertake to help out a political ally or
friend by sending that statement; but he
ufterward, when the facts were brought
out, crawfished out of 1t, and said he had
been betrayed or tricked by having letter.
which he had given in confidence. made
public"
He then read the statement Of DR..
Weaver to the effect that he was mistaken
about treating Mrs Minor Morris for insan-
ity. saying it was another Mrs. Morris who
had been his patient. These statements have
been published In The Star
Maj. Sylvester's Conduct.
Coming back to Maj Sylvester, Senator
Tfllman said:
Mai Sylvester. having been given the
lob by Loeb, put the muck rake at work
up and down by the police and the secret
service men through the streets and high
ways and the byways of Washington, OF
North Carolina and everywhere else. and
aending In reports. using the guardians OF
neace and order the men paid out of the
public treasury to keep track of counter
letters and those who are evading the rev.
enue and other laws of the United States,
he makes this pitiful showing. He furnishes
one or two letters. one being from this man
Stokes who kept the Portner.
''The point want to present is. what
shall we think and where lodge the respon-
sibiIity, and how shall We prevent re-
currence OF this kind of thing. unless the
American people can be made to under
stand the enormity OF It and the outrage Of
II that arreapectab1e woman going to the
executive of1ces In q legitimate way and
behaving herself possibly With some little
thare Wers po1icemen and BARRED aoors b.
tween the President and AnS harm: f6neo