Sane Woman In An Asylum
San Francisco, Sept. 15.- Through the filing oí a suit in the superior court Tuesday a singular story carne to light. The plaintift' is Mrs. Elizabeth Cavanaugh, an aged woman who owns considerable property, and she designatés as the defendánt her son, Kobert, and her husband, Morris Cavanaugh. She charges them -vith having conspired to rob her of her possessions and with having. kidnaped her and caused her to be held a prlsoner for four months in a local private insane asylum. Years ago Mrs. Cavanaugh was poor and took in washing. She saved her money and invested in the Misslon sand wastes. When the city grew and her property becam-e valuable she rose to comfortable circumstances. Then, to add to her prosperity, she recently won a snug sum in a lottery. After this strike of good fortune her troubles bega,n.Herhusband refused to workand her son induced her to execute a deed of trust placing all her property in his hands. He and his father, it is alleged, then took her forcibly from the house one night and conveyed her to an asylum, from which she was released by another son, a student in the Jesuit college, to whom she managed to smuggle a letter.
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