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Show DUKE IS SET FREE Jildgc Holds That He Is Sane, and Gives Him His Liberty. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-Brodie L. Duke, the half-brother of the president of the American Tobacco company, who has been kept in a sanitarium following follow-ing his marriage to Alice Webb, was brought into the Supreme court In Brooklyn today and discharged from custody after a hearing before Justice Gaynor. The action was the result of habeas corpus proceedings brought by William G. Bramham, Mr. Duke's private pri-vate secretary, who alleged that Mr. Duke was deprived of his liberty without with-out his consent and without process of law. After a brief argument Justice Gaynor Gay-nor declared that Duke was not demented de-mented and ordered that he be given his liberty. Mrs. Duke was not present at the hearing and her whereabouts is unknown. un-known. Papers calling for her arrest and removal to Texas are said to be on the way to this city. The original complaint against Mr. Duke was brought by his son, Lawrence Law-rence Duke, who alleged that his father was suffering from alcoholic dementia. Mr. Duke said when he left the court that he would be guided by his counsel. coun-sel. The only proceedings now pending against him is an order to show cause to a New York court tomorrow why a Sheriff's Jury should not be called upon to decide whether he was competent to manage his own property. That action also was brought by Lawrence Duke. When the case was called in the Brooklyn court Duke was not present and counsel for the Duke family and Bramham agreed in asking the court for his discharge so that the case could be heard in New York county, but Justice Jus-tice Gaynor indignantly refused to agree. He called Duke into court from a hotel nearby, sharply criticised the doctor who had Duke in his charge for not bringing him into court and ordered Duke's discharge. |