Dilbert Perkins
2004-09-19 01:24:31 UTC
From FBI Files:
[newspaper article]
[handwritten across the top: Hubbard Dianetic [illegible word]
[handwritten next to article: Taken from Times Herald, Tuesday, April
24, 195[?]; probably 1951]
Wife Accuses 'Mental' Expert Of Torturing Her
LOS ANGELES, April 24 (UP). The wife of L. Ron Hubbard, dianetics
founder, charged in a divorce suit yesterday that he subjected her to
"scientific torture experiments" and is suffering from a mental ailment.
Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, charged in her divorce suit that Hubbard
subjected her to "systematic torture" through denial of sleep, beatings,
strangulations, and suggestions that she kill herself, "as a divorce
would hurt his reputation."
Hubbard Called Insane
As a consequence, she and her medical advisers concluded that Hubbard,
40, is "hopelessly insane," her petition stated.
"Competent medical advisers recommended that Hubbard be committed to a
private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental
ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia," it said.
The complaint said the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, which
deals with the "modern science of mental health," did more than
$1,000,000 business in 1950.
Mrs. Hubbard said she married Hubbard Aug. 10, 1946, at Chestertown,
Md., on his representation he was unmarried. But she claimed it was not
until December, 1947, that he obtained a divorce at Port Orchard, Wash.,
from Margaret Grubb Hubbard.
$500,000 Demanded
Should the court find she is not legally Hubbard's wife as a result,
Mrs. Hubbard demanded $500,000 damages "to compensate her for the golden
years of a woman's life.
Mrs. Hubbard asked a court to restrain Hubbard from harassing her and to
compel him to submit to psychiatric examination.
She also asked sole custody of their child, Alexis, 13 months, after
charging in a habeas-corpus action earlier this month that Hubbard
abducted the child Feb. 23.
The article was taken from the Times Herald, April 25, 1951:
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/times-herald-torture-042451.htm
Here is the court document Hubbard's second wife filed, which concerns
these same incidents:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/northrup.htm
[newspaper article]
[handwritten across the top: Hubbard Dianetic [illegible word]
[handwritten next to article: Taken from Times Herald, Tuesday, April
24, 195[?]; probably 1951]
Wife Accuses 'Mental' Expert Of Torturing Her
LOS ANGELES, April 24 (UP). The wife of L. Ron Hubbard, dianetics
founder, charged in a divorce suit yesterday that he subjected her to
"scientific torture experiments" and is suffering from a mental ailment.
Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, charged in her divorce suit that Hubbard
subjected her to "systematic torture" through denial of sleep, beatings,
strangulations, and suggestions that she kill herself, "as a divorce
would hurt his reputation."
Hubbard Called Insane
As a consequence, she and her medical advisers concluded that Hubbard,
40, is "hopelessly insane," her petition stated.
"Competent medical advisers recommended that Hubbard be committed to a
private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental
ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia," it said.
The complaint said the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, which
deals with the "modern science of mental health," did more than
$1,000,000 business in 1950.
Mrs. Hubbard said she married Hubbard Aug. 10, 1946, at Chestertown,
Md., on his representation he was unmarried. But she claimed it was not
until December, 1947, that he obtained a divorce at Port Orchard, Wash.,
from Margaret Grubb Hubbard.
$500,000 Demanded
Should the court find she is not legally Hubbard's wife as a result,
Mrs. Hubbard demanded $500,000 damages "to compensate her for the golden
years of a woman's life.
Mrs. Hubbard asked a court to restrain Hubbard from harassing her and to
compel him to submit to psychiatric examination.
She also asked sole custody of their child, Alexis, 13 months, after
charging in a habeas-corpus action earlier this month that Hubbard
abducted the child Feb. 23.
The article was taken from the Times Herald, April 25, 1951:
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/times-herald-torture-042451.htm
Here is the court document Hubbard's second wife filed, which concerns
these same incidents:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/ronthenut/northrup.htm