New-York tribune., 1880-10-24
SOME SINGCLAR DELCSIONS.

MONOMANIACS HAUNTING PUBLIC PLACES.
FANCIED PURSUIT By DEIECTTvts-IMAGlNARY
CLAIMS on PUBIC .PRoIERTY-CRsZY on TIE
sUBJtCT or CIPHERS.
The Police Central Office in this city as well as
the courts and the newspaper offices. appears 10
have its special .monomaniac AS in the other
eases thfdeluded person is a woman. and like the
Others she Is a poor harmless creature no excites
pity notwithstanding the absurdity os her dis
ordered faucies and the sincerity and earnestness
with which she narrates her imagined wrongs.
She believes herself TO be under the espionage Of
OOO detectives, who follow her in the interest Of
the German Consul, who she thinks has secret
offices in Police Headquarters and deep designs
against her peace and comfort. She tells all this
with a rational air and quiet manner until she
perccvcs that she is not credited. and then grows
/, little excited and becomes noisy. Some years ago
a man with similar mania infested the station
houses and newspaper Offices He imagined that
he was pursued. not by detectives but hy doctors
who wanted his body for dissection and he would
narrate 10 any one who would listen long tales Of
the methods they pursued 70 capture him. As
proof of the truth of what lie would relate he
would produce an old copy Of The London IiHe, in
which was report filing half column of the
trial of ply sican of Londonon the charge OF con-
spiracy against him. OF course the report only
disclosed that he insane. but this the poor
fellow could not recognize. He disappeared sew
e-al years ago. His natural successor seems to be
the unfortunate creature who appeared at head
quarters recently. Another unfortunate, fam
liar in the newspaper offices. is an old man who
claims TO know where Stewars body rests. but
who says that the executors refuse TO take pos
session Of IT, Lot 10 escape paying the reward. he
will tell you with great earnesjueSS but because
of lie uSDle n VIII rieh
Mrs Stewart built at Garden CITY reserved for
himself, lie tells hls story With such plausibiliiy
If manner and incident and detail, too. that one
handy suSp, els his sanity until he reaches this
astounding climax when his manner changes in
s1antly &c fercrncSS.
The little Miss Fhte, of the Court BouSe and City
Hail. i . woman Of forty-ivc fifty. and evil
d,ftiy very poor. She visits the public buildings
once every month and makes formal demand OF
tie variou> officials FOR her rent the OF the
buildings. Her mania Is that size j the owner OF
ne public property Of New-YOrk. In her demands
for her money she interrupts proceedings in the
courts ani other Offices, but she ! never violent.
and : easily induced t. 20 away She accepts an
thing ia the form or shape of a check payment.
bat II refused tins tender she threatens = wit Of
tiel tment.
LADY, of middle axe OF this city. who i evidently
.ur of culture and IL good circumstances She |
= very handsome blonde. She hTst developed |
this mania IN - shortly aiieT tie pubAcati N
Of tie cipher dispatches In IRE tribune. She ap |
leaTed Gay IN this ollce and stated that she |
lad an important communication 90 make, bat |
wuuld 90 ouly on the promise that II IL were |
used she should nrst correct and approve the t.
rcrt >ne then stated that she had instituted three
important suits. each for million OF dollars one
against President Grant. another against the Police
Cnlnnl oncTs and the thiTd against the Western |
mon Telegraph Company. His Startling state
rnrnt naturally aroused attention. and when she /
added that the suits involved and exposed the |
can pa "a 81 -. she urged 10 tell the story
iu the fullest detail. She then told no Size was,
where she lived. her connections. and her wrongs.
just belorr the election 10 20. while she was I
absent IN tie country. the Police Comm ssIoners. 4
under orders from President Grant, had sent officers
20 her house. taken possession of Il. and Protected
the agents aud operators OF the Western 1 mon |
Telegraph Company while they we've putting q
large number OF telegraph ines into the walls and
ceilings OF the honSe. Thee wrrc carefully
turned she did not for lon, time discover them.
She did 80 then only becausf Of the effect on her
health When askcd how Il aiiec ted her she stated
hat she possessed the only elecincal Dice IN the
country. which for the purpose OF sending their
cipaer dispatches without fear OF exposure the Re-
pubhcans used, they would an electric bat
tery OF course tins Wild story revealed the mania
" hch possessed her, bat nothing els IN manner or
langu age indicated IL Informed thaI IL would be
i'm npoSsible 20 USE the informston, she retired in
QuleI and ladyhke manner 10 give this explanation
VI The disappearance of the Republican cipher dis
patches u the enemy for the qualification Of tie
Democracy.
10 all these instances the victim was abso-
utely harmless and generally patient and ssd OF
manner ELch would have made an interesting
study, and possibly these mere outlines OF their
,equliAriiles NAV prove Of general interest