Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-15
THE TERRORs or MARRIAGE
They Prove Too Much for the Frail
Mind Of an UnsOphistioated
Farmer Boy,
and at the Conclusion Of the
Ceremony ne Becomes a
RaVing naniac.


William Judson Garrison, a farmers
boy living near here was married yes
terday, and immediately after the GER
emony, on realizing what he had done,
became a raving maniac.
Lizzie Bogart, q comedy country lass
seventeen years old, spent the morning
yesterday with her lover looking for a
clergyman to make them one, but all
the reverend gentlemen refused on ac-
count Of the youth of the would be
bride. Then the,girl's father went with
them to the rural Justice, and, on his
approval, the Squire consented to
perform the ceremony. The ceremony
was soon finished, and after Squire
Anderson had kissed the bride he sat
down to his desk and wrote out the
marriage certificate.
Young Garrison had just kissed his
bride, and while tho Justice was writ.
ing he observed in a quiet, ordinary
tone of voice:
81 am inspired by God
The bride blushed at the strength
Of this compliment. but she grew pale
when Garrison suddenly overturned
the table, wrenched the leg off and
charged on the astonished wedding
party. They all fed in a q moment,
and the newly made husband enjoyed
himself by smashing everything in the
room. The stove was broken to
pieces, dishes were smashed and the
floor was splintered.
When he had finished the work OF
destruction, he went on the stoop OF
the house, quietly removed his cloth-
ing and then started on q run through
the village. A small crowd pursued
him over a bridge which spans a creek,
and called out to Thomas Stiller, who
was fishing in o boat, to head off the
maniac. He did.so, and Garrison was
at last captured and led back to the
Justices Office. There he was
clothed and bound with ropes.
A commitment was then made out,
and the party was about to start to
Wilkesbarre to have him placed in
Jail, when he said that if they would
go by way OF his father-in laws house
he would accompany them quietly
His wish was complied with and his
frenzy appeared to subside, for, upon
arriving at his wife's home, be said he
was hungry and asked for supper. he
ate g hearty meal and chatted pleas,
antly for awhile, after which he re
tired and was not disturbed until
o'clock this morning.
He was then aroused and told that
be would have to go to Jail. The
news angered him and he made a vig>
orous fight, but was overpoWered,
bound hand and foet and tied up in o
blanket. Limp and helpless, he was
then placed in q wagon and brought to
this city. 1t was with difficulty
that several policemen could hold
him or conduct him to the
padded cell which is provided fol
maniacs. Deputy Warden Mcdonald
had half his beard torn out. and sew
eral Of the officers were badly bruised,
Garrison held on to Mcdonald
beard until his wrist was pounded
with a bunch of keys and nearly
broken.
As soon as he had been turned loose
in his cell Garrison tore off all his
clothing and destroyed his bed tick.
Then he flung the fragments through
the bars Of his cell. Food was offered
to him, but he refused to eat, and
threw it out into the corridor.
Sometimes he becomes quiet, and
then he pours out a string Of p%rofan-
ity and ~Obscenity mingled with pious
platitudes, To the correspondent Of
the World, who saw him in his cell
to day, he said he was the Lord Of
Lords and the King Of Kings, and
that he vas now 10 the bonds of in
iquity. He was never insane before,
but his mother passed some time in
On asylum.
The young wife is Frustrated with
grief at the strange effect the marriage
has had upon her husband. She has
taken to her bed, and it is feared that
her terrible misfortune may affect hei
brain.