Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-20
DNG THE INSANE.
the Peculiar Characters
Dayton, (O.) Asylum.

lncinnati and His Game of
&23ilIiards-TheS Suicidal
Mania a mong the
Unfortunates.
hast few weeks / have spent.
erent occasions. a port on of a
= Dayton Asylum for Insane.
pcked up quite a number of
fhich | bel eve will be Of in
3ne of the first matters of con-
that dawned on my mind was
Hat any such institution where
fed ind yiduals bereft of the
#their reason are huddled to-
here surely must be skeletons
ElOset. and this thought is
thed BY the fact that there was
nble effort on the part of all the
md attaches of the institution
EDblig ng and polite as possible,
none of them, showed any de-
lk of the very matters that l
- learn something about. And
not because of any fear of
N notoriety. as not a living
myself knew | was col
later al for newspaper letter.
TO be the even tenor of their
1th all v's'to.s. and indeed il
= be otherwise, if the welfare of
ntion is to be considered, for
q to tell the secrets Of hos
his kind the people would be
+ with amazement. know
Hat ! learned that there are
Nh this asylum of which even
Us know nothing.
c.dent picked up through re-
this city previous to my visits
alum. and | reproduce it here
*Of its fantastic eccentricity.
Ne man who tells the story is
eyed in this city. though previ-
was in the employ of the
Among the numerous pat ents
ttitution are great many who
we'd to wander about the
Among this number was a
&oman. who shortly after the
her first child became in
Me was an extremely handsome
when talked to gave no
0hs of weak mind. She came
ne small place in Preble County.
her mind gave way she was
" a happy, vivacious creature,
ijoyed life, but after becoming
He took a religious turn and then
melancholy, and would not talk
hen it was necessary. She was
about the asylum, and
y put at most any work. Her
ia Maud and she probably had
|<mpathetic friends than any
6fient in the inst tuition. which
1ttributed to her beauty of face.
Iny she accosted my informant,
HIM if he did not want to see her
|4ls. The question, as was nat
0tlsed the young mans curiosity.
allowed her into the cellar of
the buildings adjoining the asy-
per. She took him to the darkest
where she held up before him a
nee bottle she had taken from q
and remarked:
ne they are, and bound to keep.
he one is the soul of Stonewall
b, and the other my husband 5. "
young man took the bottle near
i faint rays of light that shot
4 the cellar grating. and saw that
tom was covered with IA greenish
water discolored by
The lady maniac went on to ex-
lefe was no need of any souls
INF; that she could save them all
eople would only let her cut
at and put them into her bottle.
w the souls home was on top
nj ard could be cut out without
'uble.
sRall Jackson's soul was in the
when she got it from the spirits,
, had since put her husbands in.
xplaining all these thing, she
he young man for his pen-knife,
q him if he would lay down she
get his soul out in IA few minutes.
{ il in the bottle to keep the other
'mpany. But the young man
ito have no desire to have his
This Young lady has
severed. and is now at home
# family, attending to her house,
tiles As we'll as any woman in the
the free.
ming maniac was Charley, the
Laswealthy and widely known
living in Miami County, just be-
le montgomery County line. /
I'd the term was because he
"A cnred of the particular attack
81 he was suffering at the time
u 4 write, but has since become
aEa'n and is now an inmate of a
'ksylum in Cincinnati. He is q
icent looking young man of not
we thirty years OF age. and
not suffering from the dread
u 10 which he seems to be SUBJ
one of the most entertaining
Isaible to find anywhere. These
1 say of him because | know
J. BE- facts. When suffering from
mi disease he is, indeed. raving
\ though never very threatening.
very ingenious fellow at all
and this is what always made
'roublesome prisoner.
leht. when the patients in a ward
ked IN their rooms, they place
0thes outside of the door in the
=, 10 that an attendant knows
, al in their places. This is
done. On a certain night the
int oil the ward in which Charley
aatlent had performed this duty
fafvd, feeling confident every
w secure and all right. But foI
three nights previous to that
had been at work on the heavy
~ IN his window with a file he
1rocnred somewhere evidently
nc Of the insane who had the