Pueblo chieftain., 1921-07-06
Colorado state Hospital,
Pueblo. Colo.
July 8, 1921.

july D, l5-l.
Hon. County Judge,
Pueblo Colorado.
Dear Sir:
This is to certify that Frank
Adams has been discharged from TINS
institution, and is therefore no longer
a patient.
Very truly yours,
H. a. LA INQUIRE, Supt.'
Thus comes to an end . long story
made up of many interesting chapters
which have appeared in the daily press
and which has attracted a consider
able amount of interest thruout the
country.
Adams, or Patrick McHugh, which
is said to be his real name, was a
soldier.
A complaint as to his sanity was
filed against him July 90, 1919 he was
placed under observation until october
"A. 1919. and was committed 10 the
state insane asylum. Being a United
states government charge, and having
money which had been supplied as in
surance and compensation by the gov
ernment, it was necessary that con-
servator of his estate he appointed
j D. King, public administrator ior
this county, was selected Tor tnas
position and the money belonging TO
McHugh, or Adams. was turned over
to him. Compensation and insurance
money continued to come right along,
and in due course woman callins
herself Mrs. Patrick McHuGh, wife OF
the aforesaid individual, came to
Pueblo and applied to Mr.. King Tor
some of the mans money.
Also there came another woman
saying she was. the sister of McHugh
or Adams. Letters were then produced
written by Mrs. McHugh, stating that
she had secured a divorce from the
man sometime ago. She admitted 10
the officers that she had written the
letters to her husbands relatives. but
said she did so in the hope of getting
them to disclose to her his where-
abouts.
Soon after Adams or McHugh, dis
appeared from the asylum and after
that date his sister was not seen in
the city.
The wife, or eX-wif-, charged a GER
tain male nurse with assisting in the
escape, but could present no proofs.
This escape was about. August :, last
year.
The next heard from or about
Adams was a letter from him mailed
at Scranton, Pennsylvania; he asked
Mr.. King to send him his money or
some of it, and the clothing he had
left behind when he escaped. The con
servator could not send the man his
money while he was under the IN
sanity commitment. and he could not
/ be discharged as cured while he was
| a fugitive from the asylum.
The conservator became weary OF
receiving money each month to care
for. for Adams (or McHugh), in spite
of the fact that he tried to persuade
Uncle Sam to quit sending 1T, it kept
coming. other letters came from the
fugitive asking for money without
laval
Then Conservator King was ordered
by the u. s. Marshal to go to I'll Paso
to testify against Edna Earle McHugh
the wife. the heretofore referred to
she having been arrested in Arizona
land charged with attempting to secure
money from several soldiers whost
wife she was alleged to have claimed
to be, McHugh among them. After
two trips to FL Paso Mr.. King tesu-
fled Mt the trial
And still the money Que Adams kep'
coming from Uncle Sam, and the next
news of the man was a letter from the
superintendent of a soldiers hospital
at Philadelphia, stating that as an
inmate of that institution, Adams had
cen given a parole and had written the
superintendent that he was not com
ing back, but was going to pike S
| Peak or bust"
About a week ago Adams dropped
into the office Of the clerk Of the
| Pueblo county court and talked
pleasantly with r-r. Ring and others