The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-27
HUSBAND Of TWO
WIVES DECLARED
INSANE IN COURT

Somewhere in Memphis today sits a
little wiman weeping because her, heart
Is breaking and because Of JOY, Let
her name he unknown Her troubles
have been more than enough,
Tho story OF the sorrow which caused
her tears and the story OF the Joy which
caused her tears are one and the same.
who for weeks has lived In the shadow
OF penitentiary walls, Wednesday
stepped into the sunlight that viii fade
the dread menace OF prison stripes.
True he IL lost TO her. but in her great
love for him, she reioices that the
stiga Of n convict never viii be applied
to him.
Arthur ]. Carlyle. alias Carl Leuders.
Jr, indicted on q charge OF obtaining
money by false pretenses by oashinR
u bogus draft on the bank OF Perth
Amboy, n. j., at the Union Savings
Bank u Trust Co, was declared In
sane by a jury In the first criminal
court Wednesday,
Leuders had two wives, one In MIL
waukee and one In Memphis, the latter
obtaining an annualment Of her mar.
rtage In a Memphis court after her
husband had gotten into trouble and
she became aware of his first mar
riage Up In Milwaukee live the de-
serted wife and q little babe,
Fred Toombs, attorney for the young
man, argued that his client was par
TALLY paralysed, Incompetent and IT.
responsible and insane and declared he
should receive treatment In an asylum
Instead OF paying the penalty for acts
over which hcs bad no mental control
IN the state ntnltehtiary.
The defendant clad In q captain $
htekt aaf y Au
looking neither 10 the right nor left and
seemingly taking no Interest whatever
In the proceedings,
According to the affidavit Of the
father, who came to Memphis to help
his son out of trouble, and the testt-
mony OF Ross w. Harris Of Madison,
Wis, an acquaintance Of the young
man. who Is in Memphis appraising the
properties Of the Memphis Street Rail
way company for the city OF Memphis,
the young man did not recognize his
father or himself when they called at
the county jail TO see him,
The father In his affidavit said the
young man was married In Milwaukee
and was the father of one child. He
said the young man impaired his health
and possibly his mind by oyerstudy,
Carl, he declared, was an overstudlous
lad and often he would have to drive
him to bed by putting out the lights.
His son, he said, after graduation In
the high school took a special course
of accounting In the University Of Wis
consin, at Madison, and afterward
worked at it, being good at auditing
and accounting, Mr.. Harris said he
worked on tho same floor at Madison
with young lIeuders,
The father admitted the son had been
In trouble on several occasions, and on
one occasion he said he had to pay him
out
I1uders enlisted in the army and
served In France for year during the
great war,
DR.. Louis Leroy and Or, William
| Rrauss testified that they were OF the
| opinion that the young mans mind was
| impaired and thought 1t would do him
good TO send him to q sanitarium for
| treatment. He will be sent to Bolivar
Or. Graves and Dr. Moore, OF the
county board OF health, who examined
the young man at the jail, testified that
| they did not believe he was insane