The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-04-23
Victim of Morphine Poisoning
Had Been Good Husband
Twelve Years, She Says.
FATHER ALSO DOUBTS.
But Madeline Hackett Repeats
Assertion That Van DENSE
Welded Her Secretly.

The only person VINO can unravsa the
tangled sksin u blind circumstance
lying behind the death. from morphine.
Of DR.. waltam g. Van Deinst. the
young Ridge WOOD Heights physician. In
Bellevue Hospital last night. 10 Made.
line Haokett, the eightsen-year.oid
country SRI. who was found uncon-
scious from . drug In . room Of the
Bslmore Hotel with the Doctor and
whose life was saved only after the
heroic exertions OF surgeons.
The pretty companion Of Dr. Van
DENSE. whose sirlish face and ngurs
bear almost the stamp Of childhood.
has recovered sufficiently 70 tell .
lNtls Of the circumstances surrounding
Van Deinss's death and her own mar
row escape. The only ono person In
the world who IL hunsering for explain
alton from the lips Of the girl In the
hospital II the wife Of the dead physi-
clan and mother of his three children.
who Is to-day almost IN hystefia In her
Queens suburb.
1T was not = suicide pact" says
Madeline Hackett. "He was my hus.
band. though the fact Of our marriage
was being Kept secret by both OF ".
We took the morphine only because We
could not Sleep"
WON'T BELIEVE HER HUSBAND
A DioAMIsT.
Il never. never Will believe my hus-
band was . bigamist and that he de-
ce4ved this Girl into false marriage
With him." Mrs. Van Dsinss cried when
word Of what the victim Of the drux
had said on her cot In Bellevue was
carried to her. HE had been . good.
true husband for twelve years: no loved
me and loved our chisdren.''
william D.. vAA Deinss. TIE fathsr Of
the dead physaciSA md . Asuoglst q
No. "a Smith street. Bsooklya. could not
believe to-day that the girl In the hos.
pital was telling the truth when shs
claimed TO be the vile Of the man who
died while she was IN the Unconscious
sleep Of morphins.
|
four years ago." said Mr.. Van DENSE.
land was building up . good praotics,
He seemed to Be devoted aiwsys to his
wife ana children. He was not one "a
90 astray from his homo.
II don't think for a minute that hi
had tricked this young girl into . big.
amous marriage. nor DO believe there
was . suicide pact between them. NJ
son wss not addicted to drugs. % Tar a
know. cav him often, and would
have discovered his weakness Cor drug
IT, 10 possessed such.
Madeline Hsckett's story Of her %.
cret marriage to DR.. Van Deinss u
not considered tenabls BY the Dc.
tectives who were investigating ths
death Of the physician. For Dr. Var
Deinss moved his family from LITTLE
Falls. N. j.. whore the girl lives. Il
RidSswood Heights lees than . month
ago. and before that time he had lived
In the New Jersey town with his wife
and children for some time. The facl
that he was married could not have e.
capped the young girl. who became In
fatuatsd with him. the detectives
argue.
When the girl who was found uncon
scious by the Doctors side In the hots
room last night was revived from tn,
morphine stvpor she said that DR.. Val
DENSE lived with his mother In Ridge
Pwood Heights and that they had mar
Red secretly because mis- mother wa
opposed to the match. It was isarns,
At the homo Of the glrl'e mother. VIII
has separated from her husband an,
who lives at No. g Market street, Pater
son. N. j.. that recently Miss Hacket
had visited her mother and had told o
being married to DR.. Van Dsinss. sh
said she had Just returned from q wed
ding journey. The doctor had given he
the morphine hypodermioaliy. she said
RI Nrs. Van Deinss and the father o
\ the dead doctor both declared to.da
that Van Deinse had not been out o
the city since he moved to Ridgswoo
Heights.
DR.. Van Dsinss and his young CON
: panton registered at the Hotel Bslmor
a. Nv. Baldwin and wife. PatsrsoI
N. j." late on Monday night Whs
= they aid not leave their room all d
. yesterdays hotel clerk broke down III
!. door late last night and found thsI
y both In . stupor on the bed, The DO,
tor died while physicians ware worl
b Ing over him In Bellevue .,.