| Show 1 an Loc od Up in A r May y de Freville Pretty Young You Wife o of f Ministers Minister's Son Is Freed by Asylum Doctor After ft Suffering Inhuman Treatment at the iJ JI Hands of H Her er Husband and H Hiss His Hisk lS k II I l i II Parents s Whose y iose Schemes To LONDON OW a ij beautiful young wife wa waa was WIl H HOW subjected to tJ the outrage of o a wrongful Imprisonment in a lunatic a asylum lumi Low her brutal husband was aided and abetted d by his father the th vicar of a fashionable congregation hoe hoeher her hee her adored little boy was torn from arms by the cruel pair who hoped tha that thata a padded cell would in truth rob her of o some of the sensa sensational these reason these are in re ro re- re recent features brought to light a roi recent cent teat law suit won by Mrs May Slay d da de i Freville The drama which has revealed to t Great Britain a life and death struggle between maternal love and patient cour tour courage courage age on the one side and the other has won woe cruelty and greed on pretty May universal sympathy Seldom has there been en a more popular verdict in any British court than the one that ordered George Philip de Freville to pay for his wife's maintenance anc nd that granted the tragic mother the cue cus- custody custody tody of her child Irrepressible cheers and wild applause rang through the court when a further announcement was made stating that the certificate of insanity which almost cost brown brown- eyed brown haired copper May hew her liberty was to be sent on account of the irregular circumstances in which it was war signed to the lunacy commission Through this move Dr Dill the physician physician cian clan who entered into a conspiracy to tc thrust a sane girl into the black hope hope- hopelessness hopelessness hopelessness of an asylum may have ha some very awkward moments explaining his hie conduct to the commissioners As to the Rev Frederick de Freville disgraced vicar of Stroud Gloucester Gloucester- Gloucester shire so far as is known no official ac acs ac- ac action action tion lion has been taken as Il yet but it is ii generally thought that if he does docs not resign while he has the chance he will willbe willbe willbe be removed by his bishop Since his flock has bas learned of the dual character of the clergyman of the scheming of his wife and daughter in a s frightful and unmoral project and his hi approval of the unrelieved brutality with which his son treated the charming young girl he ho had married it has not been safe sale for tor the vicar vicar to show his face outside the door The speckled not to tl say murky past of the vicars vicar's son George has been kept Jept in the background Few knew that he had been through two divorces be before fore marrying May Indeed ft tt was to a great extent the pathetic stories of his loneliness that first fast roused the youthful and innocent girls girl's sympathies and and later her affection for the man The son of a wealthy cleric cierI and him hira self the designer of the Alvis motor ens en- engine en engine gine gins and the manager of the large auto automobile mobile firm of Bentley there seemed emed every prospect of his bis bein being able to sup sup- support sup support port a wife in reasonable comfort She herself was not wealth wealthy The fact that his law elect daughter In law daughter lect hAd little money annoyed the vicar who had no desire to taste the poverty his Master preached Thus the girl entered the the De Freville Freville family although she had no idea of it sa as a an unwelcome member an encumbrance that must be got rid of at the first possible moment For about a year Mays May's May physical at aG at- at attractiveness attractiveness her magnetism and social charm pleased the much married George Then occurred that which she hoped would be the crowning joy of their marriage i But when she blissfully confided the tho news Ge George rge realizing that she would lose temporarily at least the beauty that was his solo sole interest in her brutally told her that Only people with brains brain like animals have children Inspired by hia his father who supported this attitude tude he began forthwith to treat treather treather treather her with systematic unkindness And so BO the little boy was born to a a mother already disillusioned and unhappy un unhappy happy But his arrival lightened the th mery misery of her days and he became came rapidly rap rapidly idly her only source of eon content tent George who invariably quarreled wit people lost his job when the boy wa wal only a few months old and finding ending it Ii hard to get another position went wit his wife and the baby to the Unite States For some time he had given May n ns s money and indeed besides every penny on himself In some manna mannel not yet explained he had managed tI t get her little savings of a few to squander r Be Rid Bid of Her Were Laid L id Bare e ae aeA 1 r f I v F A 1 i t b s L I l lr r A v r The Above sane young b br a J wife recoiled in terror as an a officer o eer dragged her through s the corridor of the asylum k with mania mani- K j t Mrs Mra May de Freville as she appeared before r the abuse of her husband hus hus- husband band and her parents parents- parents law a law inlaw had broken her health and her spirit and finally put h her hr r in the padded cell ofa of a maniac i 7 7 a They arrived in due course but to the fury of George the United States did not seem particularly excited about itt It itHe lIe made for Detroit but failed to pull oft any sort of deal in the great auto auto- automobile automobile mobile mobie center Mortified and enraged he decided to tomake tomake tomake make tracks But he forgot to take MaY Mat Mav and the baby lie simply went off leaving his wife and child with stranded stranded with the hope obviously that she would do the best best bestor or the worst worst she could Almost distracted dreading to read reada a newspaper lest it contain news of fatal fatal accident to him she disposed of a small diamond ring and cabled home for passage money Before she sailed however George who had bad met with continued failure re- re returned returned re returned turned and seeing that she sho had hada a a little of the money left that had been sent by her family induced her to take him back and pay his fare on board ship When they reached England they went to live with the older De at Oakridge Vicarage Stroud Once again May expected to a mother to the violent and manifest I disgust of her lie took look her to London and put her under u der the care of ofa ofa ofa a doctor and she became quite ill I During this tills enforced absence from fromI I the vicarage the entire De o fam tam family fly ily her husband his parents and his I sister viciously conspired that upon her 1 return she was to be driven from Crom their home When she sho came back she was treated not as Georges George's wife but t as an unpaid r servant t girL May was completely mystified at st her ber berI I but a chance phrase she over over- over beard heard revealed to her the wicked intent of the De Fre ire ville yule ville family As she was s carrying up op a f heavy coal scuttle to to her father In laws father laws law's luxurious v v drawing roo r room o o m she h heard beard ear d her law in mother law say sayto sayto to George If we o only n 1 y treat her badly hadly enough she will clear out a After this cal eal- callous cal callous lous disclosure the situation be be- be beGeorge George Philip de Freville whose came more and desertion and fiendish abuse of his more tens tense until young wife were exposed to the theat theat theat at last t things h j n g s world after her release from the thee e c a m e to the madhouse breaking point One evening May refused to eat the answer was Nas to cat miserable seraph scraps sent out to her as she sho grip of Iron bru brt worked in the kitchen and fled out of the house aThe a aThe a aThe The De rejoiced at their rain victory over the the gentle little woman The now semi di whoso whose heart they toey had broken But May in her grief and te to although she d that her marriage for her little son al awas a was a hopeless failure had no Intention fearful ol oj o olof of abandoning her child to the malign scene might give tc te tc influence of her husbands husband's family She Sho forced to readmit re determined to return to the vicarage to she tried to get int fat take the boy away where the little bo Evidently the cunning De DC law law in-law held the doc doe dochad dochad had foreseen this for when she arrived In her as the evidence given in court went to she little dreamed t t prove the vicar slammed the door In into their bands hands s 8 s sher sher her face tace was now re res reI The now desperate young oung mother pas pas- pas its Its dramatic and ten tel yearning for her babe rushed Secretly sum summon mom to the side door but her sister law sister sister-in-lawas as was revealed in a c laughing loudly at her sobs soh prevented named Dill WaS was i i her from getting gettine- in vicarage lUG Dr b rN Inc oc acs who wh gave her a hideous welcome to the prison her husband hus hus- husband band and his parents P I r e n t had planned for lor her Eventually May Mayg g gained a In e d an ens en- entrance en entrance trance tranco through the servants servant's hall and entered the library where the vicar and his son were talking The little boy peaked and thin from fretting with tin tiny y out out- outstretched outstretched outstretched stretched rushed to hug his mother But be before for e he could reach her herthe the vicar picked him up roughly and a n d preventing M May y from speak speak- speaking speaking speaking ing to her baby or even touching him carried him from the room Frantically she implored her hus hns- hus- hus husband husband band to let tet her see her boy His Uia only h hold of her in a tally fling her bodily nd d into the pouring young wife screamed aloud nd id at length the Der Dothe Do De r the disclosures the I their friends were her although when the drawing room roomy y r was was her parents parents- Ir r I tight against her ss Is and mother love hat at she was as playing end id that their con con- cony con idy Idy dy to be brought to torible torible ible climax d by the clergyman urt a certain doctor introduced into the I y Believing tha that any stranger would be chiv chiv- chivalrous chivalrous chiv chivalrous enough to come cometo cometo to her rescue she s sobbed out her sorrow to him But But the steely hearted medico anxious i to 0 curry favor with the influential clergyman clergyman clergy- clergy man man brushed aside her and ac- ac aci according according ac according i cording to a pre-arranged pre plan perhaps as was Vas was suggested in court forced dope through the clenched teeth of the re- re resisting resisting re resisting girl After this she tells so that she might fall completely under the influence of the stupefying drug he was using to tomake tomake tomake 1 make her appear Insane he promised her that if she would only take a cup of broth that had oad been prepared for tor her hershe hershe hershe she would be allowed to go to her little littleboy littleboy littleboy boy Eager to do anything that would take her near her baby she swallowed the soup only hastily hastily only to realize as its strange flavor clung to her palate that it had been drugged With false kindness the sinister vicar then invited her to come to the nursery but when she stepped into the passage she was confronted by hy a police official and the poorhouse officer They had been sent for hurriedly on the ground that there was a n dangerous lunatic to be conveyed from the vicarage to a mental institution Her IIer protests regarded as the ravings of a mad woman she the was forced into an automobile and carried to an asylum Dr Dill insisted that his patient be placed in a padded cell and to reach this she was compelled to walk through the ward where violent maniacs raged and shrieked and to view them as the sole companions vouchsafed to her for Cor Corthe forthe the rest of her life Exposure has left the clergyman and his family with not a shred of reputation reputation reputation tion The courts have uncovered the scheming of a n man sworn to devote him himself self to the services of God and his fel- fel fellowman fellowman lowman lowman The false clergyman and his scapegrace son are shunned by the county families they strove so hard t to cater to They are loathed and despised despi d dby by De Freville's parishioners and the wide world But beneath Mays May's gentle exterior there was a streak of remarkable cour tour courage courage age ago and as she sat in her grim prison she determined she would confound the intriguing ing clergyman and his son When the asylum doctor at last visited her he discovered that here was a sane an and reasonable woman suffering an aB out out- outrageous outrageous outrageous wrong Ho III immediately caused her to be released re- re released re released leased Her lIer husband was sent a n message to fetch her as she was too ill physically to leave the institution alone but George de Freville did not come Word was dispatched by May to her father who rushed and took her away ba back k to her childhood home The De dream of having seen the last of the girl destined by them to languish lang for tho the rest of her life with with- M f S S a S j jI 1 I S 1 L r q Mrs Frederick de Freville law in mother law of the victimized girl girland and an accomplice in in the blooded cold blooded scheme to get herout her herout herout out of the family forever by hay hav- ing hav ing her declared Insane in the walls walls- of a lunatic asylum was rudely shattered Worse still they learned that their despicable plotting was to be exposed for all the world to gaze upon Too Toolate Toolate Toolate late they strove to avert this crushing disaster May although still a semi invalid has won her first battle in the courts tier Her Herson Herson son has been given back to her tier lIer been ordered to provide for her and and enjoined not to her put iut th the final ll steps for her have ha still to be taken The parish to which her sweetness and her sterling character have endeared her tier is hoping that she will viii free herself forever from Crom the clutches of the De Th lh Thi shadow shadow of tragedy that for so long has rested oa on the unhappy young wile wife has faded away Will the sun shine upon her het he future future and brighten her new horizon Will she ever risk giving her life lite toa to toa toa a new love and this time achieve true happiness y |
