, 1889-07-19
cRAzeD BY THE ooD
A Chicago Heiress Thinks Her Lover Went
Down In tho Johnstown Ruin.

A Chicago Heiress Thinks Her Lover Went
Down in tho Johnstown Ruin
Miss Mollie Robbins, one OF Chicago's
rcigning society queens and IN heiress
to nearly half a million, has beer crazed
by the Johnstown food. She appeared at
Broad street station yesterday morning
and caused a scene by her eccentric con-
duct. Miss Robbins is not over 20 years
old. She is handsome and stylish, md
years a fortune In diamonds. The fam
lily reside in the fashionable quarter in
Michigan avenue in Chicago. She be-
lieves that the man to whom she was
engaged to be married was lost In the
food. In order to cure her of the de-
fusion her mother and brother have
brought her to this city, and will take
her to Johnstown, where 1t is hoped that
a meeting with her affianced husband
will restore her reason.
Miss Robbins appeared at the Broad
street station just before the western ex-
press started out. She approached n
Of the officials, and, tapping him on the
shoulder, said:
"Is this the safest road 10 heaven?"
The official was too surprised to reply
to the question, and the young woman
continues:
"Yesl You may think me crazy, but
l am not. am as sane rs you arc, but
/ want to find the safest road to heaven,
and ! am told this is one OF them"
The man laughed and said he guessed
this was as safe n road as any other. She.
walked away from him, but returned
later and said:
II don't want o to have the i'm
preston hat l am crazy, because / am
not. am looking for the safest road to
n heaven of rest for the summer, and If
you can direct me l will be very much
obliged to you. You see, l am the God
dess Of Shade and Dew, and II / can
keep away the burning sun from those
of my satellites 1 will nave made their
way smooth TO the good SPOT. Say, /
have lost my wingsl Can they be In the
carriageY'
While the young woman was rambling
on in this strain to the astonished official
an aged, motherly looking woman, ac-
companied by n tall young man, stepped
up to the young girl and said; Come,
Mollie, dear, we missed you" Then the
trio walked away. The tall young man
was Miss Robbins brother, and when
ho "do otClA D1 al AllQllItI ItDOIItT uO
said that the Johnstown flood was the
cause of his sisters present mental con-
dition.
"The night before the flood she awoke
from n sound sleep and startled the whole
household by her unearthly 1t
was owe two hours before we could calm
her, and strange to say, when we ques-
toned her we discovered that she had
dreamed the dam had burst at Johnstown
and tho flood had carried away her in
tended, who was in that n~eighborhood,
and had washed his body up into n tree,
where she had been struggling to release
IT. She could not be wholly quoted, but
imagined she was an angel trying to pull
he body from the tree, and that unless
she did 80 she could not find tho pathway
to heaven.
1--WE brought her on TO sec one of Phil
adelphia's noted insanity specialists, and
he suggested we take her to Jo~hnstown
and IL the surroundings and the meet
ing with her intended, who was not there
at the time of the flood, but whom she
has since not seen, will not restore her.
She is very quiet, is perfectly sane on all
other subjects, and II this delusion can
be dispelled We will be happy.
But the strangest part is that she
plainly described twenty-four hours be-
fore the flood exactly as 1t occurred.
Oh, yes, we were acquainted there, and
spent two weeks Inst summer in the
town. 1t seems her intended had writ
ten to her the day before the flood, tell
ing her that he would not be surprised II
the dam should some day burst and wash
out Johnstown. That was on her mind
and evidently influenced her dreams."-
Philadelphia Inquirer.