The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-15
He TROUBLED Der SOUL
Peculiar Psychology in Justice Rod
RIGGS Court.
From AZ Nelc - WorLI.

| from me NeD lCfk ~ OftLs
The reporters and officials in attendance
at Justice Rodrigo's morning session yester
day were taught a lesson in psychol gy
Miss Jane f. Slingerland, a meiIum-sized
and middIe-aged lady, complained to the
justice that a young man named John Tai
madge had been annoying her.
How does he trouble your asked the
justice.
He persists in talking through space &c
me, and says be will never stop annoying
me" was the startling reply.
| She went ON to a sure the Justice that
| Talmadge and herself belonged to the
| Psychological tribe" and although he had
never spoken to her by word of mouth, they
often conversed through space.
Talmadge, who was in court, was called
before the justice. He was very nervous
young man, and seemed rath afraid that
psyc ology, whatever l. was, might be no
lend of his. he solemnlv assured the JUS
tlce and Miss Slingerland that he and "psy"
were total strangers" and, moreover, that
he did not have any hankering whatever to
scrape an acquaintance.
The Justice suggested that Miss Singer
land exercise her psychological power on
Telmadge, asking him then and there to
cease annoying her. She started in at
once, and began by raising her eyes to the
ceiling. She then contracted the muscles Of
her face and moved her lips slig tly as
though in silent prayer. While she was
going through the ordeal Talmadge showed
that his nervousness visibly increased. Al
last, after a minute or two, the grimacing
woman turned sadly to the justice and
said:
Its no use; he refuses"
Talmadge looked more troubled than be-
fore and then he thought it necessary to call
upon all up in court to witness that he had
not spoken. Miss Slingerland further as
sured the law-dispenser that Talmadge put
carbolic acid in her tea, ether in her bread,
sulphur on her meat and filled her house
with nauseous smells that almost smothere1
her. She tucned to Talmadge and asked
him to bear out her assertion that he was
psychologist. He said that he knew nothing
about the thing, and said that he never
had casion to use it in his business Of
keeping rife gallery. She then assumed
a dramatic pose and accused him in tragic
tones OF "annihilating space and communi-
eating with my soul.n
Again Talmadge protested and asserted,
with the air Of a man who meant what he
said, that he had never received an intro
ductlon to her soul or had communicated
with IL, because he could not have been on
speaking terms with it. Miss Slingerand
then told him that if he would stop chasing
her around and would cease making her
soul tired with his psychological communi-
cations, and also keep his drug store away
from her house, she would ask the justice to
let him go. The justice seemed to be fearful
Of the psychological net himself, and he
hurriedly got rid Of his fair visitor by as
surfing her that the young man would not
speak as he passed by her soul any more.
She left the court room smiling, saying that
If the voice kept on she would then know it
was that of a well-known citizen whom she
nauei.
Talmadge explained after his accuser's de-
parture that he had lived next door to the
soul-burdened woman. at 1872 Plane street.
and that he had fen noticed her gazing at
him through window. He suffered much
chatting from his friends on the "mash" he
had made, but never spoke to her until he
heard that she said he was annoying her.
Miss Singerland is rather good-looking
and dresses with much taste. She ia said
to be we'll educated and rational on all other
matters.