The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-29
VOL. XIII.---NO. 5.
From the ST. Louis Democrat.
Singular suit for .aItssssIntesat OF
.NOrriQ0e.

Judge Knight was engaged yesterday
in the trial of novel and interesting case.
A young and beautiful married woman,
Mrs. Elizabeth Bauer step-daughter ofMr.
Werheide, of North St. Louis, brought suit
to have her marriage with Henry Bauer
annulled, for the reason that he was non
conapos me1tiS at the time the marriage
was contracted DR.. Hillegast, the first
witness, testified that he visited Bauer a
short time previous to his marriage, and
found him laboring under great mental de-
preston, melancholy, and had an idea
that some one contemplated doing him
some personal harm; that his father inten-
ded to disinherit him. He was lying in
bed, with the young lady to whom he was
afterwards married sitting by the bedside
He had strange fancies and imagined
that an enormous worm was in his stom-
ach, eating away his vitals. His parents
thought matrimony good antidote for
insanity Qor the reason, doubtless, that
"like cures like" or ''the hair of the dog
cures the bite'), and urged him to hasten
his affair with Lizzie. A couple of weeks
after the marriage the Doctor called on
him again, at the house of Mr.. Werheide,
and found him again in bed He was still
laboring under Authorizations, Matrimony,
so far from curing him, had increased his
mental alteration. He was now in great
distress at the idea that he was not able to
support his wife.
Two days afterwards the doctor saw him
again and he was not much improved
He was sent to lunatic asylum. A
young man that acted as Bauer's grooms-
man, testified to his eccentric conduct on
the day Of the wedding. Among other
signs of insanity, he wore black gloves,
shuddered, and expressed a dread of what
he was about to do. The wife took the
stand, and detailed the whole course of the
wooing the wedding, and the subsequent
conduct Of her husband. She had known
him from childhood; he had courted her
about two years, ahd the engagement was
of years duration. She went with him
to the fair, and his conduct there was SO
strange that she told her mother she had a
notion to break off the match but the old
lady urged her to keep her word and mar
ry Henry, and she did so. About two
weeks after the marriage he became worse
and imagined that some one intended to
poison him. So suspicious was he that he
made her taste of every article of food pro-
vided for him, before he would touch it.
and when he had to take pills he made her
swallow two, and then he would give some
to q dog, and if she and the dog survived
during the night then he would take a
few himself He acted SO outrageously
going to bed with knife, keeping her
awake all night, and complaining of some
concealed foe-that at length, after brief
honeymoon, her father sent for policeman
to arrest him. He crawled under the bed
and with great difficulty he was captured
and taken to the calaboose. He was then
sent to ST. Vincent's and the handsome
young wife consoled herself by 81 ne to
! balls and twirling herself around 10 ti,e
mazeS Of the giddy waltz. After ren.ain-
ing awhile in the asylum, Bauer was turn
ed out, and he went to Werheide's to get
his wife. She fatty refused to live with
him, and when he insisted upon remaining,
she seized butcher knife and then billet
of wood, to drive him away. The lady
told the story of her matrimonial troubles
with great truth and gusto, and had treas
urcd up budget of little indignities.
During the delivery of her Ground unvar-
nished tale" Bauer sat by the counsel with
n smile upon his countenance, but the
sweat gathered upon his brow and reveal
ed the agony that he inwardly experienced.
He is good-looking young man of TWEEN
ty-six, ofgenteel appearance, and tobacco
mist by trade. The testimony being closed,
r. S. Mcdonald, counsel for the husband,
moved to dismiss the case and Judge
Knight intimated that such would be his
decision; but Mr.. Kehr, counsel for the
lady, desired to speak, and was heard, but
he did not succeed in changing the
mind of the judge Bauer has still wife,
but that is all.