Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-05
A WIPES INSANITY
Her Husband Blames the
 --a-. Keeley Cure. AN .
FOUND IN THE STREETS SINGING
Was Treated at White Plains, N. r.. for tho
 Alcoholic Habit. Hs. s;

She Was Given Liquor when III and
 Drank 1t in Secret AftsrwardS-Shs Was q Loving Mother to Her Children and
 HolpmAts tn Her HuSband-Hsr System
 iS Entirely Broken DOwn-Wm be
 Placed tn an Asylum.
 HoBoKEN, N. J., April 5. A tall, stately woman, who had been seeU wan dering aimlessly about the streets of this city for several hours, stopped at the door of the Church of Our Lady of Grace on Willow avenue late on Saturday even- ing, gather Q number of children around her and began singing to them in a plaintive tone. Policeman Welhe, who came up and listened to the singing, said to her in kindly way that her audience seemed to appreciate her efforts. She did not pay the slightest attention to him, and at last, seeing that her mind was wandering, he tood her to the sta tion house.
 The sergeant on duty tried to get 8 statement from her, but she would not answer any questions or tell anything about herself. He remembered that a general alarm had been sent from Jersey City for missing woman, and this one answered the description. Word was sent to the Jersey City police, and late in the evening B gentleman called at the Hoboken police headquarters, said that he was William Garretson and identified the woman as Evelyn Garretson, his wife.
 Mrs. Garretson, after she was taken home on Saturday, became very violent and smashed furniture, crockery and bric-a-brac. Her husband was not able to control her, and she will be taken to "a arrangements can be made.
 He attributes his wife's dementia to the treatment given to her at the Keeley Institute at White Plains, which he alleged broke down her system entirely and left her 8 physical and mental wreck. He says that Mrs. Garretson became a victim of the aloholic habit long time ago. During long and very severe sickness she had been fed on alchoholic stimulants to keep up her strength, and when she began to get we'll she could not give them up. She drank in secret, and her appetite became so strong that she would sacrifice every thing to get liquor, and her family ties, her love for her children and home did not have any restraining effect upon her.
 Mrs. Garretson was removed quietly to the Keeley Institute at White Plains last August, in the hope that the ter rible habit might be broken. She spent five weeks at White Plains. Her hus- band visited her regularly and had no fault to find with the care that was given to her. He says that Dr. Vanden- burg, one of the physicians at the insti- tute, told him that Mrs. Garretson was so nervous and excitable that it would l be unsafe to give her the full treatment; that it would be dangerous to give her l certain of the drugs used.
 "Mrs. Garretson was somewhat broken down when she went to White Plains" said MT. Garretson, 'but she was in a | great deal worse condition after she left. Within a month after she came homo she began to exhibit signs of insanity, and | upon one occasion she wandered away | from home in New York and was found in the night unconscious on a square. She was taken to 8 hospital and did not have the slightest recollection of where she had been and what she had been done. A constant watch had to be kept on her to prevent her from going away from home. My wife'S present condition appears to be similar to that of several other of the pa tients who have had the K0ely treat ment, and believe that her mental de- rangement t1 due largely to the treat ment that sna received at the institute" i"
 Mrs. Garretson has two lovely chill dren, and since her husband met with
 business reverseS she has assisted him by I giving music lessons. Some of her pu- pills are the children of the wealthiest
 persons in Jersey City, and Mrs. Garret- son was very well thought of every where