Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-05
SOHLKE'S DELUSION.
The story q Once Famous Dan6euBe
Told 10 a Police Captain.

The Story Once Famous Dan8euBe
Told 10 Police Captain.
New York World
Yesterday afternoon Captain
Byrnes, of the fifteenth precinct,
was informed that two men had en-
tered the premises No. As Universe
ty place, by means of false keys,
had surprised the sole occupant,
Nine. Augusta Sohlke, a Hungarian
premiere danseuse, and had done
violence to her. Captain Byrnes
Immediately summoned two Ward |
detectives, Slevin and Dolan, and |
went to the house, leaving word at
the station-house to send Police |
Surgeon Doran after him. Cap
tain Byrnes found tall, masculine
woman, thirty.fve years old, with
dishevelled, luxuriant brown hair
and swollen features, dressed in a
dirty wrapper and sitting on a
lounge in the parlor She appeared
to be under the influence Of liquor,
and in broken English told her
story.
A bout noon she was in a bath
room on the second floor, cleaning
out bath, when she heard steps
behind her, and as she rose from a
stopping position man kicked her
in the head. She fell over the bat h.
tub, which was about quarter full
of water, and two men seized her
and threw her into the bath, where
they assaulted her. They were
scared away, and Nine. Sohlke
crawled down stairs and gave an
alarm to an ice-man who was stand
ing before the house. Captain
Byrnes, believing that the woman
was laboring under hallucination,
asked her to repeat her story, and
she contradicted herself in every
particular. Surgeon Dorn's exami-
nation also contradicted the woman.
Several bruises on Nine. Sohlke's
limbs we're not of recent date, and
she was suffering from excessive use
of stimulants. She was alone in
the house, and Mr.. James McPyke,
clearinghouse keeper of No. 40
East Tenth street, who knew her,
sent female servant to take care
of her. Captain Byrnes placed
Officer Gilcar in charge Of the
house.
To satisfy himself that Nine
Sohlke was laboring under the hal
lucinati0n produced by delirium,
Captain Byrnes made a searching
investigation and discovered that on
Thursday afternoon she sent for
DR.. E. G.. Bartlett, No. 43 East
Eleventh street, and he found her
suffering from overindulgence in
liquor, which prevented her from
taking proper nourishment She
said that man who had proposed
marriage to her and had been re-
iected, had poisoned her. She sns-
pected DR.. Bartlett, and begged him
not to give her poison. He pre-
scribed soothing mixture, which
she sent for by her servant Annie ;
bnt when the girl brought it she
threw it out of the window, saying
it was poison, sent for quart of
beer, drank it at a draught, and
then put her servant out of the
house, accusing her of dishonesty.
Captain Byrres further questioned
the woman and satisfied himself
that there was not the barest foun-
dation for the story she told. After
partaking of some soup she sp-
peared calmer andwas left in charge
of the servant and Officer Gilcar.
Mr.. McPyke rays that Mime
Sohlke boarded at his house re-
Gently, and, although she was adj
dicted to drinking beer; her con.
duct was exemplary, and she ap'
pemed to have no male acquain'
tances. About q month ago she
hired the house No. As University
place and furnished it, intending t.
let rooms and give instruction il
dancing. She had but little money
and no iewelry OF value when SHE
had finished her purchases of fur
niture, and yesterday only the sec
Ond floor and the parlor were fur
qished. The second floor was LEI
to- three actors, who were ava,
VIII. en- the supposed outrage oc
eurr ed. Mime Sohlke was onc'
celeb ated as a danseuse, and wa
with the BonGanti troupe. Sh,
danced at Niblo's Garden and re
ceiyed o salary of $500 a week
Her last engagement was in tn
play of Life, at the Fifth Ayenu
Theater.
Mime Sohlke was mercilessly in
terviewed, and to each interviewe
she told q different story. Anon
other hallucinationS was that sh
had been robbed of a watch an
chain, three diamond rings an
Two diamond buttons. She Vagie