Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-23
ORPHAN HAD BEEN
TOLD CONNECTION
Summit Couple Say They In
formed Woman She Was
Not an Adopted Child.

SUMMIT, March 23.-That Miss
Beatrice Day had been told in her
childhood that she was not the legal
~ adopted daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
William II. Day was the assertion
made by the latter today. As told
i'll Saturday Evenings star, Miss Day
went insane and Wus taken to the
Morris Plains Asylum after worry
brought on by the recently CLEANED
knowledge that she was founding
for thirty eight years had under
mined her reason.
To an Evening Star reporter Mr.
Day stated that he ana Mrs. Day
had taken the child into their home
when she was five years of age. Tn.
Days, according to Mr.. Day, wanted
to adopt the child. but her mother
who was a widow with a large fam
lily, would not consent to the adop-
ton. The mother. who was laun-
dress, consented. however, to have
Yer daughter remain in the Day fam
fly until she was eighteen years OK
1 .AcAording to the agreement the
nothlr was to decide when her
daughter reached that age whether
she WOULD permit the adoption of the
child, \ The mother. however. died
before Miss Day attained her eigh-
teenth Year. Then, Mr.. Day said he
and Mrs. Day acquainted the girl OF
her relationship to the family. They
continued to educate the girl and sire
was reared in the most refined man
ner and treated in every way as
child of the Days. She was Weil edu-
Gated, became an accomplished musi-
clan and was instructed in painting
and art. Some years ago, Mr.. Day
declared, after business reVerses
came To him, he and Mrs. Day ad-
vised Miss Day that she would he
obliged to prepare TO make use OF
her attainments in music and paint
ing so that she might he dependent
only upon herself, as Mr.. and Mrs.
Day say they told the young woman
that, as they were getting Old, they
felt that Mt their death the young
woman would be left to provide for
herself. 1t was apparent, according
to the Days. who are now in their
.ightieth year, that the young woman
did not want to believe herself other
than a daughter of the couple. as at
that time, they say, she declared on
the death of Mr. and Mrs. Day she
would end her life.
Miss Day for years, Mr.. and Mrs.
Day said. had been morose and
brooded continually at times in her
room for Twenty-Five hours out OF
. twenty -lOuI- G1tI CbtlAllipil bV''AtiiV
20 alarming that Mr.. and Mrs. Day
had her confined In a sanitorium in
Wernersville, Pa. where they paid
500 per week for her care for several
weeks or until, they declared, they
could no longer afford the expense.
When they ceased to pay for Miss
Days board and treatment members
of the Baptist Church, in which faith
the Days are believers, assumed the
burden She was kept in the sana-
forum until one month ago, wher
she was placed in Miss Potwin's home
here. at Larch place, from which
she was taken to the asylum.
Mr.. and Mrs Day said that Some
years ago Miss Day had informed
them that she was about to consult
lawyer for the purpose of establish
ing her claim as Il legally adopted
daughter Of the couple. She also told
her friends and acquaintances that
she was the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Day. Mr., and Mrs. Day, who now
conduct a boarding house. have one
son william Day, jr. They have re-
sided here twenty-four years.