Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-26

what IL meant and saw no reason for having lot
of doctors tell her the same thing over again al
though they would have told her very different
story because science had progressed long way
in those II years.
Mrs Adams showed that her heart, if mis-
guided was in the right place because she was
not so strict with Amy for the reason that the
older daughter was less intraetabe. Not only were
there windows in her room and longer chain but
when Amy was in docile mood the mother took
her on shopping trips and to church
AS the iaier of a secret and unlawful prison
Mrs Adams had let herself in for an unenviable
life her daughters crampng and dominating her
existence almost as much she did theirs. Had
she realized at the beginning what 1t would mean
she would no doubt, have sent her daughters away
to be under expert care.
But step by step, the continuous conflict drove
her from uncomfortable position to another just
as it does a nation at war.
One of the strangest features of the case is the
fact that for 20 years nobody suspected the stua-
ton within the house
Yet a clue led to it from every door in the neigh
borhood. The father of the girls, Mr.. Albert
Adams, was a mail carrier whose actions seemed
so strange that outsiders had him sent to mental
hospital at Pueblo for treatment. which may have
saved him from becoming third prisoner in his
Nafe's private love jail
On the other hand, it may not. Perhaps she
did not love him enough TO take all that trouble.
One aspect of the case which may be of interest
to psychiatrists is the fact that Mr.. and Mrs,
Adams also had three sons who left home at az
early age and have proved to be normal IN every
way
These prisoners of love, mother love, father
love- husband, wife and most every other form of
love are, unfortunately, novelty to psychatrists
to whom new one is presented, somewhere IN the
country, almost every day.
The victims are to be found in every stratum of
life, in mansions, on farms and in the most
crowded of the city slums. Their Imprisonment
or the punshments to make them submit to 1t,
sometimes cause death and occasionally, the queer,
twisted love holds their body prisoner long after
death has reed their spirit.
Many of the jaier-parents seem obsessed with
the idea that their offspring will get better if they
only be kept quiet For this reason some are
trussed in vertable strait ackets of steel, cOndl
ton warranted to make them incurable in a short
time.
Usually the victims are of the same sex as the
parent who does the mprsoning. Rarely do
mothers chain up sons, or fathers their daughters.
If there is cruel streak in the parent it is 10
come out in some sort of torture punishment, such
as marked the famous Allen case of Toledo, Ohio.
The Allen boys stepfather a husky iceman,
took an early dislike to the frail boy his wife
brought with her, but while she lived he contented
himself with trying to scod the child into being
a herman.
When the boy was six his mother died and
neighbors heard the stepfather was now trying to
beat the idea into him, but they were afraid to
interfere. Perhaps the beatings were not very bad
because they sometimes heard the boy screaming
in the daytime when they knew that the icemard
was away at work
An inquistive playmate Of the boy finally was
overcome by curiosity and entered the house. He
followed the screams to a closed door, opened it
cautiously and peered into the darkened bathroom
When his eyes had become accustomed to the dark
ness he saw the Allen boy, with wide dog collar
around his neck, fastened to leg of the bathtub
by a heavy chain.
The boy was naked-and TO tantalize him Jar
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