The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-22
RELEASE OF
HEIRESS WIDOW
OF EAST ORANGE
She Is Declared to Have Been
Spirited Away TO Retreat
in New York State.
TRACED BY MAN WHO
SAYS He MARRIED HER
Mrs. S~outhwick, or Nader, Is
Handsome and "a, and
Said TO Have $4,000.

Lawyers for Mrs. Lulu Southwick.
who was taken from the home of her
mother. at SO Parkway, East Orange.
to st. Nineent's Retreat, in Harrison
New York State, are preparing 70
secure her release, and will visit her
at the retreat today. Judge Beele, Of
Yonkers, has the matter in charge.
Mrs. S%outhwick Is said to be heiress to
about $50, coo. Frederick Nader. who
lives at So Parkway, claims to have
married the handsome widow, who Is
"a years old, in the office of q New
York justice of the peace, on the after
noon of September 2S, after they had
been to a theatre.
Mrs William Dean, the mother, is
preparing to move out of the city.
The estate Of Mrs. Southwick's late
husband was to have been settled
yesterday.
The widow left East Orange in the
automobile at 9:45 o'clock Saturday
morning, and on Sunday afternoon a
private detective was engaged by
Nader to locate her.
Detectives story.
Inc QpIpCLlVe l11oG ills StdtCisiCtti
anent the taking of Mrs. Southwick, or
Nader. to the institution last night
TO an EVENING STAR reporter: IT
learned that Police Chief James Bell
took Mrs. Southwick away. in a red
automobile numbered 542-M, N. j.,
owned by a Mr.. Osborne, of East Or
ange, who maintains a small garage.
Frederic Reimer, assistant city en-
gIneer, stood by the machine while the
woman walked in, and another man
stood Tagging the machine from the
bridge that spans the Parkway.
1.-THE auto, 1 have learned, remained
under the bridge with Mr.. Osborne
while Chief Bell went into the Dean
house. a short distance away, Mrs.
/ Southwick was in the bathroom when
they came after her. Learning the ma
ture of their .errand she screamed
twice, but finally went meekly away.
A woman took the number of the ma
chine, believing something was going
to happen, and as Mrs. Southwick came
out of the house said to her: !.
Where are you going Lulu?'
at don't know, but will you tell
Fred (meaning her second husband)
to 10 all he can for me- Then the ma
CLINE UuTIicu away ol wy SP~S h
First Married Mt Seventeen.
Mrs. Southwick was first married
when she was seventeen years old, and
was placed in the retreat once before
for six months, but her father later
secured her release from the instttu-
ton. She has suffered from fits, but is
not crazy, as an East Orange physician
told Mrs. Dean. I went to the baggage
room of the East Orange depot Of h
Lackawanna to see If any trunk had
been shipped away, and on q second
visit learned that the trunk had BEEN
sent by express to Harrison, N. Y. =
Her people were Of the opinion that
she drank; one cause for the supposd<
ton being that last week she came
home at night after being away for
several days, but she had become III In
New York and was In a hospital there
and one of the physicians from the M
stitution took Mrs. SouthwtcA hnrne
that Friday night"
The Deans came from Yonkers. N IA
to East Orange four months ago.
Mr.. Relmer today declared that et4
statement that he was connected w1fu
the AFFAIR was a f~alsehood.
Chief Bell today stated that, though
he was present when the woman lam
In the automobile, he did not take her
out of the house, and was merely presE
ent to see there was no disturbance on
the peace. The young woman was on
parole from an institution whose uAfn6I
the chief would not give, and was bee1
ing returned to the place OF her OWL
volftion, he said. A woman from tu0
home returned with the young w0rnafh