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THE ANTI-KIDNAPPERS

SANE PERSONS CONFINED IN ASYLUMS

Statement of the National Convention of Superindentents of Insane Denied

Lawyer Bach Asserts There are Hundreds of Cases of Unlawful Detention on Record

Pilot Dill and Supercargo Burch of the Itata Arrested- Suicide of a Private in the Army - Minor Mention

After them With a Vengence

New York, May 10. - The anti-kidnapping league's lawyer , Albert Bach, will to-morrow publish a card replying to the statement of the national convention of insane asylum superintendents at Washington, D.C. that no sane person has ever unlawfully been imprisoned in an insane asylum. Mr. Bach denounces the statement as false and ridiculous and cites the case of Miss Clarissa C. Lathrop author of "A Secret Institution and Miss Anna F. Dickinson both whom, he says are shown by the record to have been imprisoned without any legal authority and that of Mrs. Hartiette Beach, wife of the editor of the Scientific American, who has just been released from Bloomingdale asylum on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by the anti-kidnapping league and adjudged by the court to be entirely sane, as Miss Lothrop previously was.

Mr. Bach says hundreds of such cases are on record, that the league is in possession of the evidence that many persons are unlawfully confined in the very asylums whose superintendents deny that such a thing has ever happened and that they are investigating these cases He states that in another case the league has positively ascertained that the physician who cosigned the lady to an asylum certified that she was insane without ever having seen her and that the league has called the attention of the authorities to the matter and is working to have those physician indicted and punished.

The Itata Episode

SAN DIEGO, CAL, May 10. - Pilot Dill who took the Itata out of the harbor has been arrested at San Pedro. Supercargo Burch has also been taken into custody. He was arrested at Los Angeles and says he handed the arms, but declines to say at what point. It is thought this was done ar Catalini or San Clemente island. The United States steamer Omaha left harbor yesterday. Her commander received numerous cipher dispatches from the navy department. It is understood that these contained instructions to cruise around Coronado island and San Clemente and find out if possible where the Robert and Minnie met the Itata. Marshall Gard and his deputies left for the north last night.

San Francisco, May 10 - A morning paper is authority for the statements that the United States steamer Charleston sailed under sealed orders. Her commander, Captain Remry, received a long cipher dispatch late Friday night and a few hours later the Charleston put to sea. The vessel is coaled and provisioned for a long cruise and it is stated she has gone in pursuit of the Itata with the orders to capture her. The orders, if is understood are to keep up the pursuit until Admiral Brown is encountered in Chilean waters if the Itata is not fallen in with on the way.

Shot Her Brutal Husband

CHICAGO, ILL., May 10. - Last Friday Alfred Townsley was arrested at Austin a suburb of Chicago, on a charge of disorderly conduct and locked up in the police station. Yesterday Mrs. Townsley, his wife, called on him at the station, and after a brief conversation with him, drew a revolver and fired twice at him, both shots taking effect in the man's heart and instantly killing him. The cause of the shooting was Townsley's inhuman attempt to criminally assault his eighteen-year-old stepdaughter, Edne Townsley. Mrs. Townsley made no effort to escape and was immediately placed under arrest.

Ended in Death

DENVER, COL., May 10. - David J. Miles, a private of company C Seventh segment, U. S. A. suicided at Fort Logan today. He had been drinking hard for four or five days and was feeling unwell and went to the hospital for some medicine. While there he attacked two officers with a big pair of shears and ran them out of the hospital. After this he went to a medicine case snd taking a bottle of carbolic acid, he swallowed the contents and then, walking to his headquarters, he took up a rifle and shot himself, dying shortly afterward.

Mysterious Murder Case.

MILWAUKEE, WIS. May 10 - Henry Nulfus, an inmate of the soldiers' home way missed from that institution last evening. Shortly after noon to-day his body was found in Honey creek, about four miles from the home. -- Several deep gashes were found on his head and his hands and feet were tied with stout rope. It is supposed he was murdered then thrown into the creek. he was a member of company K. Twenty-eighth Ohio and was about fifty-five years of age. No motive for the crime is known.

Caused His Wife's Death.

PITTSBURG, May 10. -- James Stewart of Chartiersborough, murdered his wife, Mary, aged thirty, last night. Stewart came home drunk ar supper time. He terrified his wife with curses and when she tried to escape threw a burning lamp at her. The lamp struck her on the breast exploding and burning the woman so severely that she died this morning after a night of awful agony. Stewart was brought to Pittsburg and locked up.