The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-19
A QUEER CASE.
A Curious Case of Alleged In.
sanity Which Don't Pan
Out.
A Chapter on the Dangers of An
swering WOuld-Be Cor
respondents.

Warsaw, Mo-, Oct. 12.-(Special. This
usually quiet little burg was all broken up
to-day over a frst-clasS sensation which
reads almost like novel and involves one
OF the first families of the county.
1t was many years ago that ID C.. Allen
and his wife, then in the prime of life set
tied In this couAty on farm some seven
miles from Windsor. Frugal and industrious
they prOspered, living happily, amasslrg a
snug fortune and rearing large family not
ed for tIrlft and good citizenship. As time
rolled On sever al Of t.eir children married
and have homes of Their own, Hard
work and Gfe's cares however tell
sooner or later upon ALL and as time grew
apace 1t was noticed that
Mr.. ALIENS MIND WAS FAILING
him in some respects, but no one
thought it more than the mere effects of
natural decline, and perhaps would not do
so now was it no. for the strange
within OF his helpmeet, Mrs. Mary Allen.
Just how or where the craze struck her no
one knows, but certain it is that the
dreams OF early girlhOod's days and pranks
and pleasures got such possession OF her
mind as for her not only to long for, but
to really believe that she could again real
ize them, if she were only free from the
burthern of the husband who had walked
through their sunshine with her and who
still stood reside her
IN THE CLEANING SHADOW
of the valley they were entering. 1t was
In an evil hour while In this mood that she
saw in paper an advertisement, one of
those little seductive bats thrown out TO
catch the silly misses and lure them to
ruin, an advertisement soliciting CORES
pondence from some fair charmer, "object
pastime, culture and perhaps matrimony."
Why should she not play the role of the
coy belle? Perhaps he was awful
nice, may De very rich, handsome
cultured moving in the charmed social cir
Giles where ease, pleasure, and elegs nee Law
ished their favors upon their votaries. How
long she pondered may never be known,
the tempter Won and finally the epistle was
written and mailed.
1T STRUCK THE MARK,
Of course. In due time a reply came. How
long the correspondence, was kept up. lust
when it began, are secrets in the breast of
the participants, but they are not material
to the story. Last September Mrs. Allen
made application to the county court to
have her husband adjudged insane The
petition was given hearing Sept oath.
Mr.. Allen was brought into court. He
was examined by physicians. Their opin-
ou was that he was not altogether of
sound mind, who is =? The Jury was en-
witnesses and physicians sum-
noned, testimony heard. The jury retired
10 consult. All agreed that the proof was
that
Mr.. ALLEN WAS NOT OF SOUND MIND.
eight of them said that he was not capable
II transacting his business and caring for
his estate. Four of them said that the
evidence did not warrant them in assert
ng that as fact. The jury was divided.
L would not agree. 1t was discharged. A
lew trial was ordered. To-day it was
allied. In the meantime the frfeads of
ur. Allen, aided by his able attorney,
Judge w. S. Shirk, of Sedalia, were not
die, they were working hard to find some
lue to the anxiety of Mrs. Allen to be rid
# her spouse. In lucky hour they found
I. 1t was in the shape Of a letter from
Ter quixotic enamorato. 1t revealed an
greement to meet him in ST. Louis
THE STORY CAME OUT,
he plot was revealed, Prosecuting Attorn-
y Hastian, rubbed his eyes, looked from
life to husband then back again glanced
{ the court, the witnesses and the audi
nee, pinched himself to see if he was
wake, walked over and whispered in
links ear, turned to the court and said,
our honors l desire to request you
} dismiss the jury iaquirendo and abate
The court acquiesced This
7ening's train carried Mr.. Allen to Sc
ALA free man. Just where he is going
what he is going to do about it remains
be seen. In the meantime the tongue
gossip is all agog. But the hardest
ing for il to decide is as to whether Mrs.
lien is not the fitest subject Jury inqsir-
do iinGtico.