New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Rubber Company Alleged
To Be Keeping F. w.
Savage Confined.
DUE TO DISPUTE OVER
PATENTS, 1T is SAID
Ex-senator Bracket and c. B.
Race Take Case Into Court
for Hearing.
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Albany, Juno ao--''The Hood Rubber
Company has spent 10000 TO keep Fred
erick W. Savage In an insane asylum.
although he is TO more insane than tho
most reliable business man in Albany"
said c. Bertran Race, an attorney. To-
day.
Savage IS in the st. Lawrence State
Hospital for the Insane. at ogdensourg.
and Race, a boyhood friend. has been
working for months to free him. A.
every turn. Race says, he is met with tic
opposition Of lawyers OF the Hood com
pany, including Pierpont Stackpole. OF
Boston. and D. J. Kenehck, Of Buffalo.
Al the last hearing before Justice Borsg,
OF Amsterdam, on May s. he said. these
two attorneys appeared and demanded 10
be heard in behalf OF the Hood company
and its employees.
Savage IS an inventor. and holds about
seventeen patents on footwear devices.
In the moving papers for Savage's release
by a writ OF habeas corpus IT Is alleset
that the Hood company seeks 10 AVOID
litigation growing out OF contract u
had with him. and also to escape the
payment OF damages because OF his III
legal detention" Ex-senator Edgar 7.
Brackett Is interested IN the case with
Mr. Race.
Justice Borst has appoipted z. p.
wickes, Of Ticonderoga, a referee 20 take
testimony OF lay witnesses as 10 Saw
ages mental condition, and he will give
hearing on Thursday at Granville. He
is 10 make his report 60 Justice Borst az
a final hearing under the habeas corpus
writ in Schenectady IN July. At that time
alienists will be called by both sides, and
Savage himself viii be present. Three
disinterested alienists viii also SIT through
the hearing, and will be the last wit
nesses called 70 testify as an laid TO the
conscience Of the court"
Mr.. Race said that Savage had built up
a prosperous business through his patents
and bis experience as a salesman for a
felt concern. He had an Office in Boston
and entered into a contract with the Hood
company to manufacture one Of his de-
vices. known as a snow excluder.
Differences arose over this contract ana
Savage alleges that the company failed 70
live up 10 IL ana tnTedtctico " oNc' Ah4"
was the state OF affairs, he says, on Janu-
cry q, 1911, when Savage was seized by
several men in his Office in Boston while
he was debating letter and locked up In
the Boston State Hospital Later he was
transferred TO the Massachusetts, State
Hospital, at westboro. Savage says that
not even his friends and relatives would
have known where he was had he not
been able to smuggIe some letters out OF
the institution.
Tine warrant for his arrest was signed
by a man named Gaynor, of Boston and
the petition by a man named Fleming
said Dir. Race. IT have been unable 10
find out who is either Of these men. At
the hearing, however. II was brought out
that Drs. Curtney and Mitchell. alienists,
v no testified against Savage, were in the
employ of the Hood company. Judge
Elijah George, Of the Probate Court Of
Boston, committed him."
When the Massachusetts officials
learned that Savage was resident OF
Granville. in this state, they had him
transferred TO the state Hospital, az
Pcughkeepsie, and about two years ago he
vas sent from there 20 the 81. Lawrence
Hospital.