Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-11-11
A REMARKABLE CASE.
The Influence of Mind Over Matfer-A Wife
Preserved from Violence by BedridHen
Husbamal--ReIapsea and Sudde Il Death.

me influence of Mind Over Matfer-A Wife
Preserved from Violence by IL Bedridden
observation-disclosures and Sudde II Death.
Mingaut Valley, N. Y. oct 26), Correspondence Of
the New York Herald.
On Saturday last an itenerant peddler
entered the house of James Tolin, living
near this place, and proceeded to dis
play his wares to Mrs. Tolin, despite
her assertions that she did not wish to
buy anything. Mr.. Tolin was confined
to his bed, and had been so confined for
many years, being SO crippled with
rheumatism that it had long been i'm
possible for him to leave his bed un-
less carried from it. After showing his
goods, and Mrs. Tolin not buying any
thing, the peddler commenced a CONVEX
sation, in the course of which
he learned the helpless con
dition of Mr. Tolin. Finally he
made an insulting proposal to Mrs.
Tolin, and she Indignantly ordered him
preached her and seized hold of her,
saying, with an oath, that she was in
his power, as her husband was as good
as dead. Mrs. Tolin, being delicate
woman, ran screaming into another
room. The peddler followed her, and,
before she could escape by the door,
caught her again. A desperate struggle
ensued between them, and Mrs. Tolin
was thrown violently to the floor BIZ the
powerful villain. Mr.. Tolin had been
all the time witness of the struggle,
lying powerless in his bed. At the
sound of his wife falling on the floor,
however, and her frantic shrieks for aid,
he seemed to be endowed with super
natural power. t.s
Under the influence of that power he
sprang from the bed he had been I'M
able to leave for years. Selling heavy
crutch that stood near the bed, he
rushed into the room where the struggle
was going on. Mrs. Tolin had sue
ceeded in regaining her feet, but the
peddler had grasped her around the
waist, and was endeavoring again to
throw her. AS Mr.. Tolin entered the
room, the spectacle of a bedridden
cripple Fastening to the defense Of his
wife seemed to paralyze the scoundrel,
and he stood staring as if in a trance at
the approach of the husband. Mr.. To-
lin, nerved by unnatural strength,
brought the crutch down over the head
of the peddler, and felled him like an
OK to the floor The next instant the
excitement and superhuman effort that
had supported the husband left him.
With shrek, that told of the intense
agony of the relape, he claspedh his hand
to his forehead, and dropped to the
floor, and almost instantly expired.
Mrs. Tolin succeeded in getting the
body of her husband back in the bed,
and then started for assistance. She
was obliged to go over mile before
she was able to obtain any. When she
returned with several neighbors the
peddler was gone. He had recovered
consciousness and fed, leaving his pack
in the house. When the news of the
attempted outrage and tragic death of
Mr.. Tolin spread throughout the neigh
borhood, the most intense excitement
prevailed. Squads of men started in
every direction searching for the ped
der, but as yet he has not been found.
In the present feeling, if he falls into
the hands of the populace, that he will
be lynched there is not the slightest
doubt.