Nevada County picayune., 1888-05-30

ture. He had rammed my head up against the wall, and was about to choke me to death. when the woman. who had recovered. thrust a bottle in my right hand. which was free, but bent under me, saying, For Gods sake, take this, quick l saw it was labeled 'chloroform. - Witha quick movement pushed it against his nostrils and held it there. l had my left arm partly around his neck. He was compelled to get some of the vapor in his lungs. held him hard, and in a very short time he loo-cd his hold and fell on the floor. made a moose in a tow el. put little of the drug on it and put it on hls nose.
 " Oh. sir, you have saved my life and his. said the woman. but there's no time to be lost. Force this down his throat pouring out some dark looking liquid from bottle into a glass
 What do you want to do-kiIl him =
 " 'Oh, no. He's my brother he's a raving lunatic, and if you don't give him this he'll recover in five minutes and kill us both; it's been given to him a dozen times.
 Il opened his lips and poured the liquid down his throat without de- lay.
 In ten minutes he was in q deep stupor, and we managed to get him on the bed and cover him up. Both of us were very bloody from wound on my ear where he had used his teeth on me.
 "Thc lady told me she and her brother travelled a great deal. It was the onl y thing that seemed 10 dc him any good. At college he had learned to play cards, and the habit had grown on him so strong that in two or three years he had spent a fortune. though. she Said he was still rich. His father had induced him to give up business in New Iord and see some of the world, and with his sister they had been nearly all over the globe. The brother nev- CT drank drop and was apparently sane on every subject except cards. In Europe one winter he had made all sorts of plans. alleging i'll health. to get to Monte Carlo, but his sister had kept him away.
 That night he and his sister were talking in her room. which adjoincd his. and everything went well till some men in the next room got bois- tcrous over a game of cuchrc. and q quarrel followed, in which there was dispute about who had the joker. Instantly. she said, her brothers intense desire to play came back to him. and he made every effort to get into the room. She locked the door leading to the hall, and it was in his attempt to get out through his own room that the struggle with her took place which aroused mo. She told me she had a somewhat similar eNpc- ricnce with him once in Chicago and in London. He was very much at tachcd to his sister, and she could control him when no one else had any influence over him. She insist eel on watching hy him that night, and | went to bed, ready, of course, to get up if should he wantcd.- Next morning at nine O clock he was awake and weak. but his mind was blank. He seemed to me helpless maniac brought two doctors here, and they said the same thing, and advised that he be carried to a hospi- tai, saving he was liable to get yio- lent at any time. His sister told me that there had never been ease of insanity in the family before, as far back as any one could go, We took him in carriage to one of the hos pitals hcre-I don't know now which one. The grief of his sister was something ptiablc to see. In week we carried him to New York, where he died in less than three months. l didn't sell any goods that week, and the firm at home couldn't understand it. made up story, and they don't know the truth vet. One day was over head and ears in business in Chicago. when l got letter from the lady saying her brother was dead and thanking me for what l had done. When went East q month later called on her. She seemed almost completely crushed. l went
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