Evening star., 1925-02-19
MEDICAL AID ASKED
BY MRS. BUDtONG
Shouts Appeal From Prison.
Telegraphers Locate in
Adjoining Room.
BY the Associated Press

By the Assoc 'ated Press
NE" YORK. February 19.-An an
peal that a physician be brought to
her at once was shouted by Mrs.
Milton j. Budlong today from be-
hind door of the apartment home of
her husband, the oil magnate. where
Mrs. Budlong has been voluntary
prisoner, on hunger strike since last
Friday.
The fued between husband and wife
developed another mysterious angle
Shortly before noon, furniture movers
began installing desks. typewriters
telegraph instruments and operators
in the rawins room of the apartment,
adjoining the bedroom where Mrs. Bud
long has imprisoned herself
Voice Is Weak.
Mrs Budlong's plea for a physician
was called in thin, weak voice to her
husbands secretary. who has acted
vate detectives installed in rooms of
the apartment surrounding the wom-
ans self-chosen bedroom prison.
Send for a doctor. Quick" was
all the secretary heard before he
scampered off to relay the message
to news reporters and to phone for
physicians. few minutes earlier
the secretary had been much exer-
cised over the disappearance of i'm
portant papers of the oil magnates.
and "a certain photograph OF Mrs.
Budlong" which he said was highly
priced by the husband
Attorneys for Budlong and Mrs.
Budlong were reported closeted in
downtown hotel. attempting TO nego-
tiate a compromise.
a heavy Office safe was last of the
business equipment moved into the
apartment Stenogra pliers and teleg
ra piers were installed and imme
diately all the clatter of a busy or
ganization was set UP.
Strategy h Seen.
Although the oil mans employees
declined TO discuss the significance Of
this move, attorneys said ii might
represent an attempt by Budlong to
give the place the legal definition
of an Office rather than a residence.
Frances, 22-year-old daughter ot
the Budlongs. visited the apartment
last night. Through a locked door
she begged her mother to abdicate
and go TO hospital. The mothers
reply was, 81 know what I'm about"
Hawkers mingling with the crowds
on the streets IL stories below the
Budlong apartment today put on sale
"Budlong's shirts" at 9S cents each.
They sold rapidly, for there has been
created a great demand for souvenirs
of the shirts initiated NJ J. B., which
Mrs. Budlong has used as ballast for
the notes she tossed to those below.
Several hot dog and hot drink push
carts, strangers to the exclusive sec
tion east of Fifth avenue, where the
Budlongs live, circulated through the
throng. doing a thriving business.
Mrs. Budlong, in two notes pinned
to her husbands shirts which she
dropped to the street, yesterday an
nounced that today she would leave her
apartment bedroom.
Mrs. Budlong threw the shirts with
the duplicate notes attached from the
window of the bedroom. They said
that the telephone extension wire had
been cut off last Saturday. and that
the water supply had been cut off Mon
day. In the missives, she denied any
intention of taking her life, adding, III
anything happens to me it will be
murder
Representatives of her husband
Milton J: BudIong. vice president Of
the North Central Texas Oil Co,
issued statement denying all OF
Mrs. Budlong's assertions, and declar-
ing that she had been advised by her
mother, her uncle and her daughter
to leave the apartment.
Mrs. Budlong took possession of her
husbands apartment last Thursday
after she had lost a suit for separa-
tion in the Rhode Island courts.