St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21
Is IT A CASE OF INSANITY {?
Peculiar Circumstances Under Which
Man Is Sent to an Asylum,
And the Relations a Lawyer Bears to
the Insane Mans Wife.
Pretty Zerelda Garrison Ostracized--
A Cockroach Marriage.

| CA0 Insane MANS W1IGs
Pretty Zerelda Garrison Ostracized--
| A Cockroach Marriage.
Correspondence of the Globe.
! ST. Louis, June 19.-We have been hav-
ing even more than the usual circus in st.
Louis this week. The weather has been in
that dangerous, dreamy and love-inciting
condition which makes it no wonder that
all manner Of men and maidens have been
lightly turning their thoughts to love. In
the first place, an old scandal, which in it's
time was discussed all over the country,
threatens to revive in a new form. Some
time ago handsome young lawyer was d.
vorced from his wife after very sensa-
tional trial, which developed all kinds of
marital unpleasantness. The wife's chief
ground of complaint, which, however, did
not appear in the petition, was the affection
entertained by her husband for the wife
of his one rich client: This client is con-
nected by marriage and blood with all the
| old French families in the city. Some time
| after the divorce came baby into the
clients family, which everyone declared
was the living image of the attorney-a
singular fact probably to be accounted for
by the lawyers great devotion to the clients
family. Well, that isn't all of it. A week
or two since the client went insane, and
the lawyer had him confined at ST. Vim
cents asylum. The young wife has been
thrown more and more upon the lawyer for
support and sympathy in her many troubles,
and as a consequence all the tongues in the
west end of town are beginning to Wag.
Gen. Noble and MI. Leo Ehrlich, both old
friends of the husband, have been twice to
| the asylum to see Mr.. -, but the good
| sisters have most stringent orders ''from
the family" that he is to see nobody, and
the gentlemen were not admitted. They
now seem to think that there may be some
doubt about his insanity, and they are
openly making statements which are very
damaging to the attorney.
!
And then we have had another Zerelda
! Garrison sensation. This beautiful young
lady, who figured in an alleged abduction
case some time ago, got married in Chicago
| to MI. Neuville and came down to st.
Louis to see her relations, who were more
or less delighted to see her. Mrs. Melville
went to stay with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Abe Garrison, at No. 712 Garrison avenue.
| Now, the fair Zerelda's previous adventure
|
| face. She was abducted not by one but by
four young men-and the other residents in
the block objected very strenuously to her
residence among them. They finally went
to Judge Lindley, who owns the block, and
complained to him, although just what they
| complained about is not very clear, as Mrs.
| Melville has behaved herself thoroughly as
a lady. At any rate Mrs. Abe Garrison and
4 Judge Lindley had a conference, and it was
given out that Zerelda had left the city.
She had not left, however, but lived ON
close prisoner in the house from the 1st Of
| May to Sunday last, when she left for New
Orleans. During all this time the young
l lady has remained in her room and in the
| back yard. She has not stirred outside of
the premises in all this time, overawed and
locked in by the cold eye of Mrs. Grundy.
1t is really more than a pity, it is shame,
that this girl should be pursued as she is by
the mock modeSty of st. Louis society. She
! is still very young-nOt 19-and she is very.
beautiful. Her form Is perfect; she would
! do for an artists model of Venus; and her
clear, shell-like complexion is something to
be appreciated only when it is seen. They
tell me that she is becoming desperate under
the treatment that is melted out to her in
payment for her girlish folly, and that any
queer result may be expected
| Nv
| The cockroach as moral agent has been
indicated in st. Louis, and is raally to be
| credited with a happy marriage following
| upon girls despair. Frank Suchy and
Emelia Ketehut would never have been
welded were it not for the cockroach. 1t
seems that Frank wooed and won Emelia,
whom he first met at a skating rink. Then
he deserted her, and she had him arrested
on Monday last, alleging all those things
/ which fOrlOrn young maidens who have
!, loved not wisely but too well, have to allege
i as customary thing, in the warrants that
4 they swear out. Frank was arrested and
/ lodged in jail; He was told that he might
/ 60 free if he would marry the young lady.
| He sternly remarked that hewould die first.
! In his cell at the jail the cockroaches rioted
over him, one of them dragged veal outlet
off his plate and under the bed.
walked over him. The cockroach,
! in a word, broke his proud spirit, and he
caved in. After night of buggy agony, he
1 sent for Emelia and told her plainly that
were it not for the reaches he would never
! marry her, but that, under the circum-
stances, he would not spend another night
| in prison if he had to marry all the girls
that had met with accidents in ST. Louis.
A justice was called in and the two made
one, and MI. Suchy is now probably in St.
Paul.
Nv
DR.. George Richter of st. Louis, who has
observed the singular action of decoctien.
of the Central American llama root, is maxi
ing number of queer experiments With
passion flower root. The passion flower is
/ nearly akin to the Llama. The drug pro-
duces conditionrvery like the mesmeric
slumber-as the doctor puts it. Induces
eatalepsy. ''After taking dose
the patient is not alone entirely
insensible to pain, but will do blindly any
thing he is told, or will remain in the most
1 contorted and ridiculous positions conceive
BILE. The experiments are by no means con
Guided, and hope to be able to give tie
GLOBE agood account Of the results OBJ
| tanned from this queer medicine as soon as
they are in shape to make public"
*x*
The Cullom interstate commerce cons
mittee will be in st. Paul next week. II
has Just finished it's work here. In st.
Louis the only witnesses who went beforethe
board were men who are known to be IN
the receipt of rebates and drawbacks and
the result has been a very pitiable array OF
false information for the COMMITTEES here.
wonder whether you will be any luckier
| in st. Paul.
As to Mrs. Grundy.