Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-02-07
MIR. Greeley's Mental Condition.

''A' NooV bh lIidt ut-
fore the Surrogate of Winchester Co, N.
Y, on Monday, Mr.. Oliver johnson who
is one of the trustees of the Tribune as
sociation, testified that he considered Mr..
Greeley deranged from the time of the
death of his wife to his death, and that he
supposed his brain had been overtaxed by
his campaign labors. He stated that at a
meeting of Tribune stockholders, Nov.
Ii, Mr.. Greeley rose and said among
other things, that he had ruined them
all; he couldn't tell why, but he knew
he had done it. He said 81 am ruin
ing you now, l try to do right, but every
thing | do is wrong" he finally LOST
himself and the thread of his discourse.
Mr. Runkle, who was at the same meet
ing, testified that Mr., Greeley said that
he had ruined everybody, all his friends
and himself; when demonstrated with
and told that he had not ruined anybody
he said, 81 am a black fraud, and have
been running you all the time-I was as
wrong as | could be at the time;'' all he
said else was simply repetitions he put
his hand to his head and complained of
pain there; witness had no doubt that
Mr.. Greeley was then insane.
Mr.. Alvin j. johnson, Mr.. Greeley's
bosom friend, testified at length to many
indications of disordered mind in Mr..
Greeley. The following is portion of
his testimony.
The Saturday before election, Mr..
Greeley said that the Tribune was ruined
that Sam Sinclair was bankrupt and
that the stock was going on the market !;
he said the only thing to be done was
for me to step into Sinclair's place as
publisher of the Tribune and get up a
pool to run it; we were walking out by
place at Chappaqua called by Gabri.
ellie Pussy place" and had been walk!
ing arm-in-arm; suddenly he let go Of
| my arm and ran behind this place, l had
said to him 1t was very foolish of Mr..
Sinclair to get his business SO extended
and hazard the Tribune; he jumped
behind the pussy house quickly, and
peering out from behind it, cried out,
IA. j., it amt Sam that is to blame, it
is l who have ruined the Tribune" |
thought had offended him I; we did not
do much chopping that day at Chappa-
! qua; when he went to the house he asked
me to excuse him for short time while
he wrote letter to be sent to Mr.. White
law Reid; | waited a long time for him,
and finally went up stairs there l saw
MIR. Greeley sitting in stupor, with a
large fat letter in his hand he handed
me the letter, and asked me TO take it to
Sam Snclair's, and they would take it to
Whitelaw Reid; as he gave me the let
ter he said to me, 81 never was a demo-
crat, never had anything to do with the
democrats, never wanted to be demo-
crat, and l am not democrat now, and
want you to tell that to everybody ON
the cars, and to tell them that | am nj
terly bankrupt he told me at Chap.
paqua that he would have died if | had
not come up there. He did not want to
read the papers but very seldom, and
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would only read the Times, which he
read constantly; he would take up the
Tribune and throw it down in disgust,
and say that it was ruined / would sa Y
to him, "You are mistaken, look at the
advertisements" he would reply, "They
are all dead-heads, you don't know moth
ing about it-you know nothing about
1.-THE paper is nothing but a fraud
there is no brains about it !" then he
would take up the other papers and say,
Here's paper that has brains--there's
the Times-look at the Herald-the ad-
vertisements in the Tribune amt paid
for; good God look at this paper"
Opening the Times, ''it's making money
right along there's no brains in the Tri-
bnne, it's bankrupt and played out"
On another occasion Mr.. Greeley told
the witness that he had broken open a
will which was sealed, and which should
only have been opened in the presence
of the Surrogate, and that Ida must send
him to the penitentiarY for perjury, and
that he had wasted $4,000 of mothers
property; witness tried to convince him
that he had not done wrong, but in vain.
Thirty persons were recently poisoned
at Coral, Mich, by eating sausage
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