The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-18
Sulzer and Glynn Will
Clash in Asylum
Inquiry.
CRUCIAL POINT
MAY COME TODAY
When Impeached Chief Attends
Meeting of State Board, Test
of Strength Will Be Made.
Effort Under Way to Dis
credit Mrs. Sulzer's
Confession.
by JAMES J. MONTAGUE.

Di Ja uE5 y. MONTAGUE.
Albany N. Y, August 17.-To-mof-
row is likely to mark a crucial point
in the dualGovernor dispute. involving
william Sulzer and Martin II. C;lvnn
sunday passed without any warlike de-
rnonstraton.
Mr. Glynn tonight began an inquiry
INTO the escape OF Harry X Thaw from
Metteawan. He sent the following
telegram to Superintendent of Prisons
John B. Riley and to DR.. r. T.. c. Kieb
I superintendent at Matteawan:
fiease telegraph me Immediately all
oetaiis you have about the escape from
a!atteawan state Hospital of Harry X
( Thaw.
MARTIN II. GLYNN,
Acting Governor"
Suizer announced that he would or
report from the State Prisons Depart
fnent. ono Of the few that still recor-
nize sulSer Governor.
Deputy AttorneyGeneral Parson.
says that II Thaw has escaped into an
other State he cannot be brought back
unless II can be established that ne boa
committed some crime other than that
Tor which he has been tried
Test May Come To-Day.
decided test OF Suffers strength
is expected TO come II he attempts to
attend the meeting of the board Of
trustees of public buildings tomorrow
in the capacity of Governor He saws
hat he viii do SO.
IT was learned definitely tonight
that the Frawley committee has deter
mined to make the confession and III
ness OF Mrs. William Sulzer the subject
or rigid investigation. The purpose
is to shatter, II possible the Sulzer de-
tense. which will be based chiefly on
Mrs. Suffers statement that she. and
not her husband, signed his name to
Trna L.,
Griswold account.
The first step will be the issuance {
Il Jane Doe subpoena for the nurse who
up TO Friday attended Mrs. Sulzer. In
formation has come TO the agents Of the
committee in Albany that this nurse
was discharged by the Governor for
talking too much" The committee
believes that talking too much" CON
sisted OF telling stories of Mrs. Suffers
condition which were not TO the liking
OF the Governor.
Assembly Leader Aaron ]. Levy has
already been quoted as saying mot only
Is this Mrs Sulzer's) confession a
sham but the pretended illness of Mrs.
Suizer is sham OF which Sulzer is
tho chief perpetrator."
The Idea OF attacking the confession
OF Mrs. Sulzcr has been in the minds
OF the committeeman since the night
when the news that II had been made
was broken TO the Assembly by Minor
ity Leader Hinman. Frawley has pub
iiciy announced that he Is loath to
can Mrs. suizer and that he did not
eeheve she should be summoned be-
fore tho committee, even II she were
perfectly we'll
Disbeifeve Confession.
The leaders in the fight on Sulzer
nave avowed their disbelief in the con-
tession and their desire to show be-
fore tho trial that Mrs Sulzer Is merely
ht,eh
When they were told that the nrrses
who first attended Mrs Sulzer had
peen discharged they decided that
some OF the facts they desired to OH
tain from Mrs. Sulzer could be Sc
cured from the woman who was with
her In her Illness
II the committee can prove that Nrrs
Sulzer has not been really i'll the mem
bers feel that they will at least have
made a start In the direction Of demon
strating that the whole defense is
sham.
They point out that the nervous
breakdown of Mrs. Sulzer Is ascribed
by her husband TO her belief that she
mad ruined his career. II she has had
no nervous breakdown they say that
the whole story of the confession Is
blown up.
1t Is pointed out further that at least
one bulletin issued by Dr. Abrahams
out while DR.. Abrahams was in New
YORK, that Chester c. Platt's positive
statement that DR.. Jacob and DR.. Car
los Macdonald had been summoned was
denied by these doctors, and after
wards admitted to be untrue at tbe
Executive Manoion, and that no bulle
TN as to temperature was given ont
py Or. Bendell, the local attending phy
sician' 1t is probable that Bendell.
"iso' VIII be called by the committees
MIS-. Suffers condition, her husband
salu Tonight, was better She was
sun In bed. he said. bat ne felt so much
easier about her that he took an auto-
'hopiie ride in the afternoon.
Forecast of Test Case.
lawyers who have studied carefully.
me tcNt OF Governor Sulzer's final let
press the opinion that II foreshadom,,
an attempt Mr.. Sulzer alone TO brin1
INTO inc courts the question as n
whether he or Lieutenant Governor
Glynn is the lawful chief executive
pending the decision Of the court of
Impeachment
The old report is revived that this
Will be done through the medium of n
pardon. 1t is said that Governor
Sulzer may pardon some convict whose
term has nearly expired and that nv |
mutual understanding Warden
CLANCY, one OF his appointces, will de- |
cline to recognize the pardon, thus
opening the door to court action by |
means of mandamus or habeas corpus
proceedings.
a statement by William Barnes |
chairman OF the Republican State |
Committee. commencing the course OF |
Harold j. Hinman, minority leader OF |
the assembly, In opposing the fmpeach- |
ment resolution, has caused consider
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