The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-21
POISONING
CHARGE COMES
FROM ATCHERLEY
Honolulu, August 20, 19t

Ci't'i eoNo biAfhD NOu publlShVu III SOul
issue of August 10, 1909 under the
heading of Dreadful position of mad
house chief"
Ot-coufse-F understand that you are
welrt aware that the charges Were
not printed for the moral effect on the
mind of the community but to mislead
them in all the dirty work that is be-
ing done to my husbands life in the
insane asylum pending his appeal to
the Circuit Court and during the alb
sence of any witness to wit myself and
children and others who have visited
him previously to the orders of the
final Imprisonment August T. 1909.
First charge you say Peterson must
bear the brunt of Mrs. Atcherley's ir-
rational charges
Second charge that | the wife of
paranoeac, a victim of an established
delusion which makes himself dan
gerous, accuses DR.. Peterson of poi
soning her husband.
Third charge that I am constantly
endeavoring to smuggle opium and
cocaine behind the bars of the mad
house.
Fourth charge, frequently since At
cherleys necessary Incarceration have
overdoses of drugs been found in the
possession of Dr. Atcherley.
Fifth charge, DR.. A. was placed III
asylum after due process of law, for
being dangerous as the result of his
imagined wrongs. He shot up Way
sons house because of these imaginings
and now he declares to his wife that
DR.. Peterson the superintendent is try
ing to kill him.
Mrs. Atcherley maintains the same
delusion that DR.. Atcherley maintains.
Sixth charge, Mrs. Atcherley has
been constantly brooding on the mis-
fortune of her husbands insanity. She
has made such disturbance that she
is no longer admitted to the asylum to
see her husband.
| Seventh charge, Atcherley is receiY-
ing drugs he has had for many years.
/ Nothing else, unless it be additional
doses of the same drugs struggled
through the barricades of the asylum.
Eighth charge, if Atcherley kills him
self; if he throws himself from a sec
ond story; if he takes an overdose OF
opium Struggled between the bars says,
says Peterson, the cry from me will
be Peterson killed Atcherley."
Ninth, they will not be satisfied I'M
! til he is dead, says l, and hence Peter
son may be tempted to swear out
warrant for my Arrest and confinement
In reply to the
First charge, must state that my
charges are not irrational-for they are
all too true as a silver dollar and
have proofs and am ready to appear
before the grand jury-whether Terri
torial or Federal, and | admit DR.. Pc
terson as superintendent of the insane
asylum must bear the brunt OF his
wicked deeds.
Second charge, / must say that your
paper has no right to call my nus
band names (paranoeac) before he IS
finally adjudged under just hearing
of the false charge against him maze
by the copspirators who are so sore
at the fact that their very reputation
is at stake, since the second photo OIL
one of our patients at the Kalihi leper
station have been shown.
The reporter of your own paper VINO
wrote these charges against us in your
issue of the 18th and whose conduct
and libellous pen the share holders oil
YOUR paper are responsible for, will ad-
nit that the doctor did not have fair
trial before Judge Andrade; for he
was present during the trial.
He has often passed remark to
that effect to me and continues to say
that he could have gone into the Ka-
lihi settlement with the Judge and
the County Attorney-had it not been
for my presence during the trip.
DR.. Atcherley at no time has ever
: had decisions. The alleged deIusions
have been proved too well and because
his complaint against those who are al
the head of the providers in our pre-
= misses they now fear the exposure.
certainly acuse DR.. Peterson of ad
lululSI6lluS anu pIONluih5 S'N'N
of poisonous drugs to my husband DR.
Atcherley to wit:
Pills of ext. of Belladonna anC
opium in place of pure l grain opium
pill. The effects on the doctor being
. dried up his throat, confusing his
brain, flushing his face, stopping the
perspiration, spelling the appetite ant
retaining waste products in his sys
TEN and affecting the eyesight.
will refer you to any reputable
physician in the territory. Does four
six or eight grains of opium affect
person in that way?
received a letter at noon on the 1T
from my husband, complaining of tn,
effect the supposed l grain opium
= pellets were making on him. / theI