New-York tribune., 1908-11-11
MAY UNITE PHlPPSES.
WOMAN MORPHINE USER.
Would-Be Dynamiter Daughter OF
Massachusetts Millionaire.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I

Denver Nov 1O-The woman who with
threats of dynamitng tried to force Mrs. Gene
We've Chandler Phipps to give her $4,000 yes
| terday, has been identified as Mrs. Allen F.
Read wife Of former Denver druggist and
member of a wealthy and prominent family
She has plenty Of money, as has her husband
and her act is attributed to the insanity or the
confirmed morphine user.
Lawrence Phipps declares Mrs Read must be
punished to the limit. and already 1t is rumored
that the adventure will result in the remarriage
of the Phppses.
Mrs Read was Miss Campbell, daughter OF
Springfield, Mass, millionaire woollen manu-
facturer. who died recently, leaving a large es-
tate to his two daughters. Mrs. Reads income
from her share is more than $4,000 month.
Her sister is said to be teacher of languages
in Vassar College
Late to-day the police turned Mrs. Read over
to the care Of her husband, who arrived from
Buffalo Park, Col. soon as he learned that his
wife was in trouble. He suggested that perhaps
he would place his wife in a private sanatoriurn
for treatment.
For fifteen hours after she had been locked up
no clew to Mrs. Reads identity could be found.
The name Cones. which she gave yesterday, was
assumed, and is that Of well known merchants
wife This morning, while talking with Chief
Armstrong Mrs. Read casually mentioned the
name of a prominent physician having at
tended her. He was summoned to the chiefs
office and promptly identified her as Mrs. Read.
The woman can remember nothing Of yester-
days escapade, but has vague idea that she
killed somebody, and expresses deep remorse
This afternoon she managed 10 get hold Of bot
tie of morphine pills in her handbag at the ma
irons office in the police station. but while in
the act OF swallowing a handful of them
detected and foiled in her effort at suicide
Mrs. Read tossed uneasily a cot in the
matrons quarters of the city Jail last night.
To Chief Armstrong and all others who talked
with her she told an incoherent. rambling, un-
satisfactory story
L don't know who I am; 1 don't know where
1 am FROM" she moaned. 'rI came to Denver
from somewhere in the East with Madame Le
Roy She had strange influence over me and
she said that she would help me. 1 met her on
the train 1 was once very I'll and nearly died
of brain fever and became accustomed to the
use of morphine.
Nine Leroy made me Mrs. Comes by sug-
gestion. She going to cure me OF that
terrible morphine habit. 1 know that she told
me to do things and that I started out to do
them, but 1 don't remember what they were"
Mrs. Read registered at the American House
last Friday as Mrs. H. E. Comes. of Albany.
N " and TO Mrs. Phipps represented herself
to be special writer for newspapers and at
present collaborating with Joseph Medill Pat
terson, of Chicago, in preparing a book on So
cialism and society. A dispatch from Chicago
brings denial OF this story from Mr.. Patterson.
who says he never heard OF her.
Mrs. Read returned recently from Springfield,
Mass. where she had gone to attend the funeral
of her father. She is a member of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church of this city. and
has been highly respected. Her husband was
at Buffalo Park, while she trying to extort
money from Mrs. Phipps.