The New York herald., 1872-11-02
ROSE M'cABE.
Another Judicial Investigation as to
Her Sanity.

Another Judicial Investigation as to
Her Sanity.
Judge Sedgwick, OF the Superior Court, who
granted the second writ or habeas corpus In the
case OF Rose McCabe, otherwise known as Sister
Mary OF Stanisaus, the object being an investiga-
tion touching the question OF her sanity, set down
the case as will be remembered, peremptorily for
a hearing yesterday. At the appointed hour there
was large attendance in Court.
Mr.. John D. Townsend, her counsel, called her to
the witness stand.
Mr.. vandervort, who appeared for the Commits
sloners OF Charities ana Correction, referred to
the recent examination before Judge Leonard upon
a similar suit, and insisted that the present exam
inatiOn could not cover her mental condition prior
to that time, the same being res aoyutcdta, put
must be limited to an inquiry as TO her mental
condition since that time
Judge sedgwick put an estoppe to this sort OF
was was one " in Which the Introduction Of mere legal
technicalites could not be allowed.
Upon this decision OF the Judge Miss McCabe was
placed on the witness stand. She took the stand
with the same quiet moaesty as before, and dressed
in the robes OF her order, looked like witness
r to e her rne Which
ceeded to do in most simple, unaffected manner,
and whatever there was OF hiatus or want OF con-
tinuity to the narrative was owing not so much to
her form OF telling straightforward and connected
story as to the frequent interruptions OF the oppos-
ing & counsel which seemed evidently made @ Win Ina
palntive voice is seldom heard, and her story, in
the course OF which she was often obliged to
| dcsist through being chOked with tears at
| the memory OF the cruel wrongs and
| privatiOns to which she has been subjected,
! not only during the eighteen months she has been
| in lunatic asylum, but long before this, was
listened to with the deepest interest, particularly
by the score and more OF ladies present. She told
| the same story as before Judge Leonard and
which. having been published In full at the time IN
| the HERALD, does not require repetition Her
| parents are Dead and she had seven sisters and
one brother One of the sisters is dead, but three
| others, with herself early consecrated themselves
to the Church, and are now members OF various con-
! vents. She entered the Convent OF St. Catharine
In Houston street in 1858. She told how since then
the life she led in them, told how she had been
| vilided and prosecuted how she had taught school
| and how she had been often at starvatOn's door
but had never begged She gave the circumstances
| OF the deceit practised upon her to get her tC
| the BlOOmingdale Lunatic Asylum and reclted the
| particulars OF her life there ana since in the
| Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, to which in
| stitution she was transferred and is now an in
| mate. She was subjected to lengthy cross.eX
| animation and the Judge asked her many ques
| tiOns, but she did not deyiate from her original
| narrative.
Mr. Townsend said, at the close Of her story, that
he was almost willing to let the physicians who
present pronounce upon what they had heard as Ia
her sanity. woman called Mrs. Irwin and Miss
Emma Maxwell, who had been among her attend
ants at the Lunatic Asylum, both stated thai
she had told the same story to them, and further
rest OF the testimony elicited nothing new or i'm