Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-21
A cRAzED BRIDE.
The Lying Skeletons Wife of Day
Loses Her Senses.
PhiLrdelnhia Press. 18th.

Loses dcf SENSES
PHILADELPHIA Press, 10Th.
Last Tuesday morning all Philadelphia
laughed at the story that appeared IN the
newspapers Of the infatuation for and
marriage of a beautiful girl to the living
skeleton at the Dime Museum. Yester-
day the bride of two days was ravlng
maniac, who, imagining that she was
still with her monstrosity Of husband,
kept crying, stOh. take me away from
him. Take me back home! Take me
back, take me back!, The sequel of the
funny story becomes a very sad one. On
Monday afternoonthe girl seemed stunned,
having but very little to say, and spend
ing most Of the time with her husband.
On Tuesday she began to get excited. In
the morning she went out, and, after she
came back, became a little wild, APP
parently realizing what she had done. In
the afternoon she said she must go home
for some clothes. After some objections
by her husband she started for her
home in Hestonville, in a nervous, half
wild condition of mind. On the way to
the train she was met by friend, who
had read of the affair in the papers and
had come to seek her.
Arriving home, she was kindly received
by her parents, but quickly relapsed
into a delirium, from which she has not
yet recovered, struggling and crying out
all the time for help and deliVerance. All
day yesterday she strove to escape from
the phantom husband which her tevered
brain cOnjured up. In the evening a
Press reporter called at the house. Her
physician was with her, trying to calm
her and dissipate the visions by which
she was beset. Whether she would re-
cover from the shock was, in the medical
mans mind, question very much In
doubt.
The unfortunate brides father, Uriah
Clear, who lives at Fifty-f0urth street and
Lansdown avenue, is a man sixty-hYe
years Of age, for twenty-five years re-
spected citizen of HestOnville, and a fore
man in the manufactures of John Hun
ter. Stricken with grief at the calamity
which has befallen him, he at first de-
clined to say anything on the subject,
but finally gave the following:
Il knew nothing whatever of the mat
ter until Tuesday morning, when l saw
the Press. Then, although ineXpressibly
shocked, l thought that it must be our
Bertha, who left us on Saturday to 90 on
visit to friend living at Wissahickon.
| We then sent relative tie town for her,
and she was brought home. Such a ca
lamity may / never have again."
"Did she ever show any signs of being
| demented at any previous timep'
eyes, several times during the past few
months she has had periods when slight
delirium was indicated, and this folly was
/ done at such a time. If there was nothing
beforehand to point to it, this one act
would be enough to convict her of in
sanity. No sane girl could ever ally her
self to such a monster.
eyes, we shall certainly apply for di-
vOrce as soon as she can know what she
doing. That fellow ought to be made to
suffer for this"
The old man went to the Museum in the
afternoon, and had a long conversation
with Garrison, the skeleton, in which he
told him plainly what he should do. Gar
rison, however, stOutly claimed that the
girl was his wife, and so belonged to him.
The old man went away and retained
Counsellor A. S. l.. Shields. Mr.. Shields
said that nothing could be done at present
until the girl Gained down a little, but
that, marriage being in the eyes of the
law simply legal contract, there could
be no doubt as to the result of a divorce
suit, which would certainly be brought.
The attenuated Garrison still main
tanned last night that the girl must be re-
| turned to him; that she was merely suf-
fering from intense excitement. caused by
the publicity that had been made OF the
affair, and said that there was no ill-feel-
ing between his father-in-law and himself.
''You know the law as well as 1 do" he
said, ''and what can they do, as she was
regularly married to me? The clergyman
was b. G. LippincOtt, of Camden, who was
in a bookstore opposite when we were
about TO be married. asked my landlord
to get a clergyman, and he was brought.
/ saw my wife for a short time on Sunday,
and on Monday morning we were mar
ried."
To one of the employees, however, he
said that if the divorce papers were
properly made out he would make no
objection, but without that he must claim
his own. 1t is said that he has something
of a reputation as a lady-killer, having
made several conquests in different cities.
In spite of the horrible emaciation of his
frame, his face is not unpleasing. Yes
teTday he received letter from former
sweetheart in New jersey, enclosing an
engagement ring, stating that she had
read Ofhis faithlessness, and so discarded
him forever.
Mr.. Bradenburgh, when told what Mr..
Clear had said about the affair, said that
the museum authorities knew nothing
whatever of it until after the wedding.
"Of course, when it had occurred" he
said, ''we had to give the information to
the papers. They tell me that the girl al
ways appeared all right when about the
/ building on former occasions, and, if she
is insane, she has become so since her I'M
fortunate marriage to the beast up stairs,
Such men have fascination for some
women. Sprague, who used to be with
me, was married twice, and by the first
wife had three or four children. He was
thinner man than Garrison, if it were
possible to be So"
Bertha E. Garrison, as her name can
now be legally written, is 10 years old,
with an exceedingly pretty face and
pleasing figure. She is well educated, and
is an accomplished musician. She was
engaged to be married to a promising
young physician of this city, and has sew
eral grOwn-up brothers.
HORSFORD's ACID PHOSPHATE.
A Valuable Medicine