The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-25
DRUG VICTIM CAUGHT
Mrs. II. O. Curtis Davis Ar
rested in New York.
HAD BEEN MISSING II DAYS
Wife of LunchroOm Proprietor Is
Held by Police Authorities and
PhinIS of Morphine and Cocaine
Are Taken Away from Her.

Pursued by phantom enemies. haunted
with strange visions, and fleeing In
Imagination from her husband, Mrs. H.
o. Curtis Davis. OF this city. took taxi
cab ride in New York yesterday after
noon and ended the day as a patient in
Bellevue Hospital.
Physicians will make an examination
into her mental condition and mayhap
she will be returned to a sanatorium,
where she first saw. was woOed and won
by her husband, and where she spent
months as a patient.
In New York City.
Mrs. Davis has been IN New York since
Monday last, stopping al the Hotel Lang
ham. lO3d street and Broadway Her
taxicab ride yesterday afternoon began In
front of 80 Wall street.. according to
Samuel CornfeId. OF rs Floy street.
Brooklyn. the chauffeur, who said Mrs
Davis stopped him there
Drive up Broadway" she said to Corn
field. Il have been fiimfiammed, and
want to see the district attorney"
The machine was turned IN the diree-
ton Ct the Criminal Court Building,
where the woman alighted.
When Cornield grew tired of waiting
he entered the building and found his
passenger wandering about the corridors.
He learned that the district attorney and
his assistants had left for the day. Then
take me to police headquarters. said
Mrs. Davis
Lieut. Dewey had quite talk with
the woman. She said she wanted pro-
lection from the people who were haunt
ing her. She declared her husband wish
ed to put her away, and told of strange
fancies. which led the Lieutenant to ask
for several articles in her possession.
She gave him a hypodermic syringe,
two small phials of morphine. a bottle
OF the same IN tablets, and two bottles
containing liquid cocaine.
Sent for Ambulance.
'"Those people are coming" said Mrs
Davis; and Lieut.. Dewey sent for an
vue, accompanied by a policeman and a
.matron. Physicians say she talked
vaguely OF being blackmailed.
Word was sent to the police OF Wash
ington, who have been searching for Mrs.
Davis for several weeks. Her husband,
who is proprietor Of q lunch room in
Thirteenth street, had been unable to in
duce her to accompany him home from
New York on Wednesday
Mrs. Louise B. Forsythe, mother of
Mrs. Davis, was located at the Hoffman
apartments. 1892 Belmont street north
west Davis and his wife resided at the
apartments until her disappearance on
February last.
According TO Mrs. Forsythe. her daugh.
ter was formerly the wife Of Severn De-
vine, of Brooklyn. n. Y. who now has
the care Of their ffteen-year-old daugh-
ter Davis met his wife for the first
time, IL is said. in DR. Barnes sanator-
ium. near Stamford, Conn, where both
were patients. They were married on
Thanksgiving Day. 1908. Shortly after the
couple came to Washington to live.
Contracted the Habit.
Davis says his wife contracted the drug
habit when she met woman who resides
in the northwest. The woman obtains
the drug from well-known sanatorium
in New York City, and she has always
supplied my wife with it. tried to break
up their friendship, and made every eff
fort to persuade my wife to forsake the
habit. but I failed"
When Mrs. Davis disappeared from
Washington her husband appealed TO the
police. She was traced to Baltimore,
where 1t is said. she stopped at the Ho-
tel Rennert. When Davis made inquiries
at the hostelry TO learn where her bag
gage had been sent he was informed, he
says. that she left the hotel without
paying her bill. Davis says he settled
the account
The restaurant proprietor then traced
his wife to New York City
Mrs Davis was formerly Miss Callie
Forsythe. When taken into custody in
New York City she gave her age as
thirty-two years.