The Morning herald., 1876-11-29

as Ahe raised ner nand With q pistol In !
Mr.. Ainscow saw that 1t was very muel
lacerated, and she must have cut It by dash
ing 1t against the window panes, knocking
them out in her wild delirium. Under hej
command, Mr.. Ainscow was forced to re.
tire, but not until he was convinced that shs
was not in need of projections. .d
Several pleasant days she was seen on the
roof OF the house with bed Quilt thrown
about her shoulders, walking up and down
and inteDtly reading a book. This she
would do until she became fatigued and then
throwing herself into the corner of the
chimney fall asleep and there remain until
late In the afternoon. She could be heard
pacing the floor during the night, and her
meals we're brought to her from different
places. Several times they were ordered In
| MIR. Ainscow's, and frequently were brought
In BY colored people, though she did cooking
herself. Mr. Ainscow noticed several times
when he went in to carry her meals that
she had considerable money which she left
in exposed positions about the room. She
appeared to be possessed of q passion for
books, and ordered numbers of the choicest
works from the store of Messrs. Bouphman.
Thomas & Co. The class of works that she
ordered showed her taste for literary read
ing to be those of high order. Her bill for
books ut this store amounted to $50, and
she sent down by small colored boy to
pay for them one hundred dollar bill and
the change was sent her.
We give here list of some of the works
she ordered, selected from a catalogue of
the Harper Brothers ."The Mikado's
Empire," "Lanfrey's History of Napoleon
the First" "Schiller's Thirty Years War;"
"kinglake's Crimean War" Banks of
Travels by Brewster" "Letters on Natural
Magic," 1.-THE Science of Optics" and
number of others. She must have been
very insane. or always intoxicated, for she
was never without her revolver, and on one
occasion when the landlord went in to COL
lect his rent, she sat by table with q COB
let Of brandy in front of her, and close by
a loaded revolver cooked and primed. The
gas man called and she ordered him out at
the point of the revolver, and he easily
frightened her in the dark hallway by
drawing pair of pincers and telling her
that he was armed as well as she and could
shoot too.
On Monday morning the New York pa.
pers contained an article stating that the
Saturday previous, a middle aged woman
arrived at The Ashland House on Fourth
avenue, that city, and after engaging IL
room acted very strangely. She gave
baggage check of tn: Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to the clerk, and said her trunk
woulu soon arrive. This was on Saturday
morning and at five O'Clock in the afternoon
she began to walk up and down the hallway.
The proprietor questioned her and she an.
swered that she did not like the room. An
other apartment was prepared but she did
not like that, and she tore the green baize
from the door. A physician was summon
ed and pronounced her deranged. She gave
her name as Abigail Hunter, and said tina,
she had father in Caroline county,, Mary.
land. She was taken to the Insane Asylum
at Bellevue Hospital and in her valise was
found a ticket for passage in the steamship
Russia to sail Nov. 20, (to-day) draft for |
SS3 and considerable sum of money. The
papers further stated that on Sunday morn
ing she became perfectly rational. Her
father who was In the city called on her |
and she was taken away yesterday morn.
ing.
One of the papers state that she had last /
stopped at the Lafayette Hotel, Whining
ON, Delaware, and enquiry led the reple-
OF The HERALD to the knowledge |
hat Abigail Hunter, found insane in New
York, was none other than the Abigail Eel
ows who had figured in the hotels here.-I
All inquiry in the neighborhood, brought
,ut the remark that she must be in her
'oon as bright light was seen there all the
light before. The place, however, was en-
cred by the rear, and the whole house ex.
'lored and found to be tenantless. The gas
vas found burning brightly, and this de-
eption had the desired effect of making the
people of the neighborhood believe she was
till there. Upon the lower floors every
hing was in the greatest confusion. Empty
lemijohns and bottles We're stuck about in
he corners, and in the two rooms occupied
y herself up stairs there were large mum,
'ers to be seen. The bed clothing was In
disordered state and looked as though she
nd slept in them with her shoes on. Bullet
oles were seen in the wall and
lpon table were the remains of her last
neal in the house, a roasted chicken partly
aten and scraps of bread. There were two
as stoves in the room, and the floor was
over.d with All ingram carpet. In room
djoining the bath room she had a cook
tove and safe the latter we'll stocked with
rovisions. There were found receipts from
'oughman Thomas & Co., for books, Cav
hrop u Bro, for work done, q receipted
as bill, and letters from the Manhattan
avings Bank, New York city, recognizing
RATS she had drawn upon that institution
Or large amounts.
A representative of The HERALD yester-
ay called upon Mr.. Robert Taylor, who
eeps bakery at the corner OF Fifth and
atnall streets, where he obtained an out
ne OF the history Of this unfort unate wo- ,
ian. The name of her father is Isaac
lunter, and he is baker by trade and q
ative of Belfast, Ireland, where his father Z
we'd in considerable wealth, but his son :
larried against his wishes; he disenherited
i'm and with his young wife he came to ,
lew York, where Abigail, their first +
hild and the subject of these .
smarks was born. His wife died, and he ,
smoved to Wilmington bringing with him
il daughter. At the age of fourteen Mr.. /;