The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-01-22

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BOSTON, MASS, January ls.-Mr.
Henry L.wiIkins, Of Omaha, arrived hsrs
with his wife on the day before New
Year. He boarded q : fashionable house
On Berkeley street, In the back hay dis.
trict, until Sunday night, when he moved
% The Parker House. His health he's
been bad for some time, and during HE
stay In this city he has been attended By
two physicians. He was to sail from this
port on one Of the Cunarders on Satur-
day next, for Liverpool. from whence he
Intended to 90 20 Carlsbad, in Germany,
where be hoped 20 derive benefit from
The waters. He 10 only thirty-nve years
Of age. and his wife d : very pretty and
attractive woman. some eight years HE
junior. wilkins has oyertaxed himself
tn HE profession, that Of civil engineer.
that he would lose his mind II he persist
ed in working 30 hard.
Within Q short time he had become
very much interested In s~piritualism, and
during his stay here has devoted much OF
his time TO seances and sittings with the
many ~Spiritualists with whom Boston Il
blessed. Only Saturday he was found By
. policeman standing on Z dry goods boz
on the corner Of Temple Place and Ire
mont street about dusk, ~haranguing .
crowd on spiritualism. At that time the
streets are full OF people on their way
home, and the policeman was about to
take Mr.. wilkins to the s~tation-house
for blocking the streets, when . man
who knew him came along and
persuaded the oflcer to take him
home. DR.. Clark was in the room At the
Parker House with Mr.. and Mrs. wilkins
all yesterday afternoon and evening, but
though the patient was sleeping quietly
for the night when he left him at quarter
before twelve, ten minutes afterward
wilkins jumped out Of bed with an I'M
earthly yell, rushed at his wife and struck
her a terrible blow on the side OF the head
with his fist, that knocked her down and
left an ugly wound on her cheek. Then he
ran into the hallway, tearing his night
clothes into small pieces and yelling at
the top Of his voice.
In . ONE ali the Railways were
filed with men and women In srant robes,
rushing wildly down the stairs and anx-
iously asking each other 10 voices Of ter
ror what the trouble was. Several Of the
ladies tainted and were carried into the
pariors and laid OF the sofas. The night
clerk and two porters ran up ~ stairx
and tried to capture the insane ~ He
brushed al three OF them to one side, and
few down the hallway, BY this time a.
most nude, and tried to open one Of the
double windows on School street, crying:
al must fy out; 1 must ~ out; don't
touch my wings" The stalwart engineer
and fireman tried to seize wilkins BY The
arms, but he eluded them and ran back
to his room, pulling the door TO after
him
Parson Downs had been reading testi-
mony for his coming trial, in company
with his lawyers, In the rooms Of the
syndicate for the defense, on the door be-
He had Just reached the question:
"When did you leave Mrs. Ta5erf" = he
heard the unearthly yells. He jumped to
his feet and went up the stairs two It q
bound hatless and coatless and his curly
hair flying behind him. He showed open
the door to wilkins room, around which
stood q frightened group Of people afraid
70 enter. He found wilkins standing
on the bureau without . stitch Of
clothing on, waving : black bottle around
his head and shouting: ~ am God, I am
God; beware Of me-" Downs ran up to
the bureau and grabbed wilkins nrmly
around the waist. As he did 50, wilkins
. blow 1t his head with the bottle.
Downs ducked his head, bur received the
blow in full force upon his right shoulder,
almost d~islocating Il. He carried Will
kins TO the bed, threw him upon Il, and
held him down, Judge Norton shouting
All the time, "Look out, Parson, he will
kill you"
After Downs got wilkins down, four
men cam In and helped to hold him.
Then the police were sent for. It took
three b them to carry wilkins to the
Station-house after they had got some
clothes on him.
Mrs. wilkins wound was dressed,
and she was terderIy cared for, but
was suffering intensely when last heard
from, with Mysteries. II was more than
IN hour before the hotel was restored 70
its normal quiet, and then the night clerk
heaved . deep sigh - he said:
THAT was the worst scene ever known
in the Parker House. don't think We
ever had . raving maniac here before.
Thank God that wilkins ran out Of the
room before he killed his wife" wilkins
will probably be sent to an asylum to-day.
PErson Downs shoulder ID very painful.
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