The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27

her, she said she was afraid to be left alone
He left her in charge OF some female help
and told her he would return in few
minutes. He had scarcely reached the office
when messenger told him that Mrs. Lin
coin was at the elevator and wanted to see
him. She said there had been strange
man in the corridor, and that he was going
to modest her. He went mp in the elevator
and walked with her through the house, but
did not see any strange man. She was
greatly excited, and desired to go to some
of the lady-boarders' rooms that she might
be safe. He showed her to Mrs. Dodge's
room, who at the time was at dinner, prom
Using that he would return soon. He was
again summoned by her, when her appear
ance was wild and her fears we're repeated.
He believed her deranged. No one had
called TO see her since her arrival except
it as safe to leave her alone.
Mrs. Allen, housekeeper at the hotel, tes-
titled that Mrs. Lincoln seemed to suffer
from nervous excitement. She imagined
that a small window in her room BODIED i'll !,
and used to say that the window disturbed
her. She walked her room most OF the
night. Witness had slept with her two
nights at her request. Last Wednesday
/ Mrs. Lincoln was very much excited. She
mixed several kinds OF medicine together
and took the mixture. She had large
closet filled with unopened pack
/ ages sQ6 udu puiCDdccus QUO COhSlu-
i cred her insane, and that she ought TO be
placed somewhere for treatment and care.
| Maggie Gavin, employed at the hotel, testi-
fed that she had had the care of Mrs. Lin
coins room, and heard her complain fire.
quently that people were speaking to her
through the wall. She was most anxious
about her son, and sometimes called her at
tention to voices she heard through the
floor. She complained that
MAN HAD TAKEN HER POCKET BOOK,
but witness found it in the bureau drawer.
She at times called witness to the window,
and, pointing TO the smoke from an adjacent
chimney, would declare that the city was
burning down. Lately Mrs. Lincoln
bought several new trunks and number of
! packages of goods, which she never opened.
\ Upon one occasion Mrs. Lincoln leIt her
room and went to her sons room, saying
she was afraid to remain there, having on
her nightdress. Witness considered her of
unsound mind. John Fitzhenry. second
waiter at the Grand Pacific, testified that on
April LIST he went to Mrs. Llncolns room, at
her request. He found her carelessly
dressed and excited. Size asked him to
call. the tallest man in the dining-room to
her, and she exclaimed several times,
81 I'm afraid! am afraidw Mr..
Turner, to whom she alluded, sub
sequentIy saw her. Charles Dodge,
cashier 0fthe hotel, corroborated Fitzhenry's
statement as to her excited and nervous
condition, and added that she said some one,
a stranger, bad been in her room, and that
she was afraid of being mOlestsd. Mr..
Seaton, agent of the United States Express
Company, testified that one day in April he
sent ii trunks to Milwaukee for Mrs. Lin
colin. She told him she was going to spend
her summer in Wisconsin. Her manner
was very strange. DR.. Isham testified that
on the 18th OF March he received telegram
from Mrs. Lincoln, from Jacksonville, Fla,
as follows: "My belief is my son is sick.
Telegraph. start for Chicago tomorrow"
Her son was perfectly we'll at the time, and
witness so telegraphed her. MIR. Lincoln also
telegraphed to her. telling her to remain in
Florida until perfectly we'll. He received
second telegram after the lapse of hour
and half. 1t read:
"NIY DEARLY BELOVED SON,
Robert I. Lincoln: Rouse yourself and live
for your mother. You are all have; from
this hour ali have is yours. pray every
night that you may be spared to your
mother" Robert T. Lincoln then took the
witness stand. His face indicated the I'M
pleasantness of the duty he was
about to perform, and his eyes
were expressive of the grief he
felt. Mrs. Lincoln at first looked on calmly,
but during the recital of the incidents of the
family history and reference to the death of
his father and brother she gave way to tears
and buried her face in her hands. He testi-
fed that he did not know why his mother
thought he was sick, unless she had read
some newspaper paragraph to that effect.
He bad not been sick in ten years. The
action he la taken was sad to contemplate,
but he had done 1t in the interest OF his
mother. He did not want any money from
her. He had money in trust for her. He
met her in the car upon her arrival
from the South, and upon meeting
her she was startled. She had the appear
snce of good health, and did not even seem
fatigued by the trip. He asked her to come
to his house, but she declined, and went to
the hotel. He went with her, and took sup
per. She told him that at the first break
last she took after leaving Jacksonville an
attempt was made to poison her. He Oc-
cupied room adjoining hers that night.
She slept we'll that night, but subsequently,
was restless, and would come to his door in
her nighJ-dress, and rap. Twice in one
night she aroused him, and asked TO sleep
in his room. He admitted her and gave her
his bed, and he slept on the lounge. He got
DR.. Isham TO attend her. About April l she
ceased tapping at his door, he having told
her that if she persisted he would leave the
hotel He went TO her room April 1 and
found her but slightly dressed She left the
room in that condition, under some pretext,
and the next he knew of her she was
GOING DOWN IN THE ELEVATOR TO THE
OFFICE.
He had the elevator stopped, and tried to
induce her to return to her room. She re-
garded his interference as impairment, and
declined to leave the elevator, but he put
his arms about her and gently forced her.
She screamed: "You are going To murder
me-" After awhile she said that the man
who took her poeketbook had promised to
return it at certain hour. She said the
man was wandering Jew she had met in
Florida. She then took seat near the wall,
and protested to be repeating what the man
was saying to her through the wall. She
had, since the fire, kept her trunks and pro-
perty in the Fidelity Safe Deposit Company's
building. He called on her the last week in
April, and she told him that all Chicago was
going to be burned, and that she was going
to send her trunks to some country town.
She said Milwaukee was too near
Dab Lee her Id