The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-29
A Rich ChicaSoan who Has Gone Mad
for Love OF the Empress of Entiia.



the Queen OF England, and it may surprise
the inhabitants OF that tight little island to
learn that James Love, Jr., asserts in the
most positive manner conceivable that the
Queen of England reciprocates his tender
passion.
When the Queen, the Emperor Napoleon,
and the Empress Eugene visited Chicago
to view the ruins OF the great fire, the royal
party boarded ut the corner Of Warren and
Hoyne streets, the upper portion OF the
humble clearinghouse, where they sought
an obscure retreat to avoid observation, be-
ing inhabited by James himself, and it is
quite probable that, being thus comfortably
situated, he saw the Queen every day.
All might have gone happily with James
and Victoria. He adored her, she wor-
SHIPPED him; the English people were
friendly to him; Disraeli favored the match.
But wicked and designing men conspired
to destroy their happiness. j. c. Knicker-
booker, OF this city, fell in love with the
Queen, OF rather, as Mr.. Love says, deter
mined to WOO her for her money, and James
was the victim OF base and cruel con-
spiracy to break up the match. He was not
permitted to see the Queen. When he went
to get marriage-license and said that the
lady's name was Victoria Guelph, Queen OF
England, the clerk at the county building
refused to grant it. Yesterday Love was
brought into the County Court on the petit
ton of his adopted daughter, Amy }. Love,
to try the question as to whether his mind
| is distracted, and he is incompetent to man-
age his estate, which is valued at about
| $4,000.
Love is an old resident OF this city, and
has been before the public more times than
once. Shortly before the fire his wife OBJ
tanned decree of divorce from him. His
mental kinks were not very well understood
at that time, and as he was quiet and harm
less but few people knew that his intellec-
tual balance was little unsettled.
He is rational on every other subject, but
the hallucination respecting his passion for
Queen Victoria and her undying love for
him has been increasing in vividness, and
has seriously interfered with the proper
management Of his estate.
The case Yesterday morning drew good
many spectators to the courtroom. Ar.
w. S. Young, the clerk OF the court, con-
Quoted the trial. Love himself was the first
witness, and he soon delivered himself OF
such mass Of distracted vagaries that the
necessity OF the petition upon which he was
tried was forthwith admitted. He drew
very touching picture Of his devotion to the
Queen, and OF her unalterable love for him,
and was quite certain that the diabollcal
schemes Of Myra Bradwel and Knicker-
booker would perish, and that their loving
souls would be yet united. 4 dark plot
which had been conceived by the iniqui-
tous minds OF Reuben Taylor, Rev. Mr..
Mansfield, Combs, and knickerbocker, to
gct hold Of the Queens money, he then laid
bare.
Mr.. Love seemed to be little at fault
about the Queens finances, or else this
country had been deceived. He states, with
every appearance Of speaking the truth,
that she retains S20,000,000 of the Geneva
award. Mr.. Love, however, instead OF
having any sinister designs upon this
money, has very properly advised the Queen
to nav it over to the United States, and has
advised Grant to invest it in Government
securities.
Mr.. Love then startled the court with the
astonishing intelligence that these diabollcal
enemies had drugged the Queen, and that a
man named Cassel was using every means
in his power to induce her to accept his son
as her consort. Mr.. Love, however, was
Iain to believe that in spite Of these un-
speakably base prosecutions the Queen was
unaterably devoted to him, and stated that
Notwithstanding Cassel raised Ratchet and
| told her that the die was cast, she had re-
| fused to falter in her love for Love.
| He had appealed repeatedly to the British
people to rescue their sovereign, but they
had been unaccountably Indifferent, and it
seemed evident that he would be obliged to
meet and battle the Vaccinations OF the vii
lains single-handed and alone. Mr.. Love
then asked to have subpoena issued for
Qneen Victoria, who very singularly had
failed to appear and corroborate what he
had said. Then he volunteered to show the
court photographs Of the royal family, and
actually did produce pictures Of the Queen,
the Prince of Wales and wife, Leopold,
and other members Of England's royal
house.
1t was scarcely necessary, but several of
Mr.. Loves acquaintances testified to bis
harmless }unacy. The jury returned aver
dict finding him distracted in mind, and
recommending the appointment of conser
vator.
The course OF James Love never did run
smooth.
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