St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-29
PLACED IN AN ASYLUM
John Mc0ullougks Friends at Last Place
Him Under the Care of the
Doctors.
He is Adroitly Enticed From His Hotel at
New York to Bloomingdale
Asylum.
The Demented Actor Expresses Great
Admiration for His New
Quarters,
And Willingly Consents to Remain
His Family Notified Of the
Action.

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Virginius i'm a Mad House.
NEW YORK, June 2S.-JOhn Mccullough
was yesterday afternoon handed over to the
care of the BloOmingdale insane ASYLUM au-
thorities by three of his closest friends. Mr..
McCullough's mental weakness had been
well known for many months, but it had
assumed such alarming proportions lately
that this step, long deferred, was at last
considered necessary. Mr.. Mccullough
spent Friday night at the St. James hotel,
whose proprietor, Capt w. M. Connor,
is one of his oldest and nearest
friends. His room was over the
cafe, the roof of which made species Of
shed directly under the windows Soon
after 9 o'clock yesterday morning Capt.
COnnOr, who had concluded that his friend
should be removed from all excitement and
had arranged a plan to take him to quiet
retreat, sent bell-boy to the room to see if
Mccullough was awake. The boy returned
down stairs with the word that the actor
had answered his call. Thereupon Capt.
Connor went to his guests room. McCul-
Tough was still lying in his bed. ssHeIIo.
old man," said Capt. Conner; 'saren't YOU
going to get up to-day?"
'sWhy, what time is it?" responded DIc-
Cullough.
'Its after O'clock"
SWELL what difference does it make. 1
have nothing to do?"
''Well, I'll tell you, John. We received
an invitation from particular friend of
mine," said Capt. Connor, producing let
ter he had caused to be sent to him, 'sask-
ing me to meet him little way up the
road to have a little lunch, and I would like
to have you 60 along. Will you Gomez"
ssAll right, I'll join you," answered Nc
Cullough, and he arose to dress. MI. Nc
Cullough has not had the easy use of his
arms lately, and he was expected by Capt.
COnnor to occupy some time in dressing.
After waiting over half an hour. and Mr.
Mccullough not making his appearance
Capt. COnnOr went again to his room.
Mr.. Mccullough was standing on the
floor, with his undershirt half on, and max
ing labored efforts to get one arm in the
sleeve. He was saying, s'Confound this
shirt as Capt Connor entered ssKeep
cool, John. !" said the captain, ssdon't get
angry with the shirt, . and this pacifed him.
Then Connor called Drs. Mcbride and Nc
farland who were waiting, and they came
IN. Connor introduced them as friends of
his. The captain remarked to Mcbride.
''Y Ou have often seen McCulIOugh
The doctor assented, and Door McCul-
Tough said, with queer grin, Eyes, we
were just talking about it." Connor and
Dr. Mcbride exchanged glances, and
the doctor held some conversation
with the sick man. Afterward
both doctors made further examination of
the patient and, although they could not
scrutinize as closely as if they had been
willing to let their subject know what they
were doing, they became satisfied that the
actor needed to be placed in the care of
professional nurses. Among the things he
said was that there had been two little
champermalds dancing out on the shed
while before. Capt. COnnor had sent fos
Robert NJ. Taylor, of the firm of Degraaf
q Taylor, and another friend of John Nc
Culloughs, to come to the hotel. When
the actors friends and physicians had held
consultation it was determined to carry
out Capt. OConnor's plan and take Nc
Cullough to the Bloomingdale asylum. The
doctors made out their certificates, and
Chlef Justice McAdam, of the city court,
SIGNED A COMMITMENT.
M Cullough and his three friends entered
close carriage at the hotel door, about
o'clock III the afternoon, and were driven
ssup the road" On arriving at the asylum
the party was shown into the parlor. Dr.
Sanger Brown, the assistant medical super
intendent of the institution, soon came in
with another physician and they made an
examination of the patient. At its conclu-
sion DR.. Brown sat down alongside of Mr..
MCCULLOUGH on the sofa and said to him in
friendly way: ''Mr. Mccullough, your
friends think it will be better for
you to leave the city with all it's
excitement, and that right here would be a
good place for you to stop for time. What
do you shink?" ''All right" was the
place, and I'll stop with YOU" Mr.. McCul-
Tough was then taken upstairs to the hall
on the next floor, and told which
HIS ROOM WOULD BE.
1t was one of six that opened onto COM
mon corridor. The occupants of these
rooms mingle together as they please, have
an exclusive dining-room and billiard
table. The rooms and corridors are neatly
furnished, and from the windows facing
south full view of the handsome grounds
of the institution is had. The
patients have the liberty of the grounds
manv hours during the day, and are
taken for drives two or three times week.
John Mccullough expressed much pleasure
at his surroundings. Mr.. COnnOr and the
other gentlemen soon went down to the
office and made arrangements that their
sick friend should remain at the asylum for
thirteen weeks and was to have a special
nurse. Dr. Brown said to-day that Mr..
Mccullough was still very much pleased
with his temporary home. The doctor de-
clined, however, to say whether or not he
thought the patient would, ultimately re-
cover. He wanted further experience with
the case before pronouncing an opinion.
Mr. Mccullough said this afternoon that he
had never been so kindly treated in his life.
His family in Philadelphia have been noti-
fed to come over and arrange certain legal
forms.
A Girl,s Terrible Death.