Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-06-02
MRS. LINCOLN INSANE.
snE MAKES TWO ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT
SUICIDE

!
SUICIDE,
A Chicago court has recently order
ed the wife of ex-Prcsident Lincoln Il
be sent to aLunatic ASYLUM ON the
petition Of her son, Robert 7. Lincoln
The editor Of the Chicago Times of the
2lst instant in alluding to this melan,
cholly case, says;
"ln conversation with the Hon
Leonard SWEET, into whose care was
placed the charge of conveying Mrs
Lincoln to the Bellevue Hospital ior
the Insane at Batavia, ILL.,, yesterday
the patient appeared more rcconcilcd
to her fate. In speaking Of her insan,
ity she said TO Mr.. SWEET at may
be so; and what II il is so? What
wonder is ity Havcn'tI had enough
cause to deange any woman's brain
Did not see my husband assassinatcd
before my eyesg Have | not been
homeless for years? and have | not
buried all my children with the OK.
ceptloh Of Robert? Do you wonder
that | am deanged y
Il was not until late hour in the
afternoon that Mr., SWEET and Mr.. Lin
coin learned the melancholy truth
that the unhappy lady had made n do.
termincd but Intellectual effort to com.
nit suicide, Of course every prccau.
ton had been taken to guard against
any attempt of this kind, both by her
son and Mr.. SWEET, who has managed
this most unpleasant matter with most
commendable care and consideration.
So near as can be learned she found
II an easy matter 10 convince the girl
who had been stationed in her room Ia
prevent any effort on her part TO jump
out the window that il was necessary
for her to step out into the hall Tor q
moment. She then hurried down the
staircase toward the east front of the
hotel to the drug store Of Squair 4
Co., where she ordered two ounces Of
laudanum and like quantity of cam.
phor. The.clerk looked at her doubt.
ingly when she made this demand, but
she assured him that she was troubled
with neuralgia in her shoulder, and the
pain was often so severe that she was
impelled to seek relief by bathing it in
the compound she had ordered. Still
the clesk hesitated, and finally consul
ted the proprietor, who suspected the
real object for which the mixture was
desired, and concluding wisely that a
little strategy was better than an alb
solute refusal, he told her that il
should be prepared for her, but that it
would take about ten minutes TO put IL
up, hoping in this brief space of time to
find means of again placing her in the
control of her friends. But this did
not suit her, probably for the reason
that she suspected the real object Of
the excuse, or else that she would be
discovered before it could be prepared.
Without saying another word to in
dicate her intention, she stepped out
10 the sidewalk, called carriage, and
stepping quickly inside, drove 10 the
store OF Rogers & Smith, at the corner
of Clark and Adams streets. The
druggist to whom she had first applied
suspected her object and hurried after
her. She reached the store and gave
her order for the same deadly com.
pound, but the druggist arrived in
time to prevent her receiving it, ever.
though the compounder of drugs had
been disposed 10 give ii TO her. She
was again met with some excuse, and
again she turned to her carriage and
drove to William Dale's establishment,
two blocks further away down Clark
street, toward the Sherman House.
The druggist followed, and again she
failed TO procure the deadly fluid.
By this time il seemed 10 occur to
her that her prescription must have
been compounded at the first place TO
which she applied, so she again enter
ed her carriage and drove back 10
Squaif's store at the Pacific Hotel
A ,,....o,l a. n..s IL ......I - 4
m'a ,a.na a,'d 'd'.o oa;. sn' ienewea a, nci ue,
.a"' .Ia ,;m anu 'oo'"g Nv o.ner why ou, VI
filed with a colored but harmless fluid
and given to her She graspcd il ca
Soi,y anu s'''r'cu ior her room out
,.r nau so1'oo,{ passeu ocy1nu 'nc uoor
n mn'n sno p,aucu .no VIA ~ her i,Ps
.h.. anu u.a,neu ... & !. " us eoh'on's' ohe
.n. ,r;,h me"' !ues,y W ncr room, ana
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. n"s snu sap Posvu WIS '"e 'ne'''"o'c
"PB,o"on " uca'n' :,
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Sny ";,; Mas h,s os s'vw ,, 70 u'scoser II. AI.er
w"S wa" ''!.s. apo'. s,. n,.oon or twenty nun.
c c'os ~'noa. ieelne any snP'casan, ei-
m ,ec's ,'o,l' ~, 'hs uI"ugn,' sue essayeu 70
sope"s e' VI ."o enor. anu agalh s''pPeu
nun, h n. ner loo'n S, anu P"sseu s uown 70 ,ne
luS s.ole, onc ,o'u MI. oquair Una,
tne y . ,o''oll see,hcu 700 weak 10 anoru
ner any rehe,, anu asked Tor another
9u"oo VI Iauua,'u'n 70 strengthen IT.
~ o'uor ."a' ,ncre ih'gn. DC no mus
.aho ''pos' ~, snc s'eppeu neh'nu thc
prescription case 70 gee that IL was
properly prepared, mus pntting the
uruggls. 70 nus wis ends 10 find way
20 uc,c've hcr' mr. ROBERT lincoln,
ior "no''i nc hau sont the moment he
liis' saw ner IN ms store, had not ar
TlNtu. uI0 IDeTH WHh no one nj hlnn min