Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-06-02
IS ACCUSED OF
INSANITY PLOT
NEW YORK WOMAN ALLEGES
SHE WAS RAlLROADED TO
AN ASYLUM
NOW WANTS HER PROPERTY BACK
Divorced from Husband in Chicago
And Sued Afer Second Marriage

New York.-A mothers charge that
she was railroaded to an insane asy-
lum by her daughter, who later got
control of her property, was made be-
fore Supreme Court Justice Newbur-
ger when Mrs. Almina p. Mabie ask
ed the court to vacate commitment
signed by Justice Blanchard nearly
two years ago. Her accusations were
made against her daughter, Mrs. Dor
othea Brown.
Mrs. Mabie was divorced from her
husband in Chicago and subsequently
sued him for accrued alimony after
he had married a second time. She
got judgment against him and came
here to live with her daughter Mrs.
Brown and the latter's husband. She
then deposited her money in various
banks.
The petitioner said that after she
became a member of her daughters
household she suffered from indiges-
ton and on Mrs. Browns advice she
saw a physician. Mrs. Mabie alleges
that this was the first step in the
scheme by her daughter to get control
of her property. She said that while
the physician pretended TO be treating
her for indigestion he was acting as
an examiner in lunacy. Mrs. Mabie
said that a few days later her daugh-
ter complained of illness and asked
her to accompany her to consult an
other physician.
Mrs. Mabie said that three days af-
forwards three men and nurse forci-
bly, took her from her daughters
home and she found herself later in
the Knickerbocker Hall Sanitarium
at Amityville, l.. l., where she was
committed as insane on the affidavlts
of two examiners in lunacy, who ask
ed that the service of papers on Mrs.
Mabie be dispensed with on the
ground that it would excite her.
This statement was a gross and I'm
mitigated mendacity and part OF the
conspiracy and compact to railroad
me to an asylum said Mrs. Mabie.
The petitioner said that when she
was put in the asylum her daughter
took $500 she had with her The cir
cumstances under which Mrs. Mabie
says her daughter took her from
Knickerbocker are as follows:
"In tears / pleaded with my daugh.
ter to remove me, but she could not
be shaken. l believe she was acting
under the advice of her father, my
divorced husband, who had come Oh
from Chicago and is living in Brook
Ign. Ny daughter came and had me
discharged from the institution, but
as soon as l was out she insisted thal
/ go to the German Savings Bank
and draw out $500 for her. Then | was
forced to go to DR.. Barnes sanitarlum
at Stamford, Conn. While patient
there l gave my daughter $500 more,
and when she promised to secure my
release if ] would turn over to her my
bank books, stocks and diamonds,
did So"
Mrs. Mabie says her daughter took
her from Stamford and planned to
send her to another sanitarium in the
Catskills, but while they were waiting
for train she says she escaped. She
wandered to Harrison, N. Y, and was
admitted to st. Vincent's Retreat
there. Soon afterward she got IN
touch with a lawyer who made the ap
plication in order that she might ge,
possession of her property now in the
hands of her daughter
Although the application was not
opposed, Justice Newberger said he
had no power to grant the relief ask
ed, because Mrs. Mabie had been To-
cally discharged from KnickerbocKer
Hall.