The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

Whatever that might mean, and wrote long,
incoherent epistles on every article [ ever
punished He generally began thus:
Drop not dead Lewis, the Light,
teaches truth not death.'
La Maroneck, N. Y, there used to be 2
| loved him madly and was forever pursu-
ing him, although he had never seen me. L
suppose voices told him | loved him. This
is one OF his indignant letters:
''If you will please re!inqUsh your hopes
and aspirations On this poor, sick chicken,
and let him have few hours Of peace and
comfort, you will confer favor, not only
on me as a single man, but on yourself.n
There was another poor DAFT mortal in a
like conc ition. He was always asking me
to meet him, and in the same breath telling
me must see him nevermore.
L know wealthy man, senior partner OF
a Well-knoWn firm, who is insane on the
subject of new Inventions. His house is
filed with inventions for anything, every
thing and nothing. He will buy SO, 600
piano to-day, because a third pedal or an
extra key is ADDED aud tomorrow he will
sell it for &c. and buy az other, because
new arrangement has teen invented TO
close the lid. or something equally absurd.
One dav he heard the voices say that a
married woman, her front room lodger,
was in league with the wicked barber, so,
meeting the woman s husband in the hall.
she told him that his wife was running
around with the barber, and that together
they had drugged her and taken her out at
night. The angry man flew down into the
basement and setting upon the crazy Wo-
mans poor old husband, beat him and
knocked out all his front teeth
/ was forced to listen to these and hun
dred other stories from my visitor, who
never
RELAXED HER GRIP ON THE REVOLVER
and the club, and showed decided lndca-
| lions OF dangerous excitement whenever
attempted TO rise from my bed. For seven
hours as have said, she held me captive;
| and then her whim chang ed and she left
me just as had made up my mind to brave
| cold lead rather than endure the situation
| longer.
know another man who thinks he is be-
ing offered constantly positions of promi-
nepce and responsibility. He never hears
of vacant Office but that he declares it
was offered to him, and he, knowing his
true value, always declines.
know an enormously rich man who has
homicidal mania Not more than a half
dozen persons know the dreadful truth.
Any jury in the world would declare him
perfectly sane, and yet he only wants an
opportunity to become murderer He
has no delusion he merely wants to kill
1Or Ile PIE aSure OIL kllllnS. tie SpeQQS MS
time Il aveling with his dear friend "a ply
siclan), and in the guise of Wallets. two
sturdy attendants travel with him, ready
at all times to overpower their homicida
employer.
Au insanity expert tells me that he has
crazy patient, suffering from melancolia
and delusions. who fills the important pc
stion of switchman on the New York ele
waited road. Some day that lunatic is gone
to see an unknown enemy on an advancing
train, the switch will be turned the wrone
way, and the result will be work fo1
undertakers And ali because a man wa!
sane on every subject but one, or, in othel
} words rode hobby to its fatal end.
For over three years | have been in con
slant communication with two sisters
whose case is rather interesting from uh,
) fact that they aid and abet each other il
J their delusions. The insane as IA rul
! always see the folly of other lunaticst delu
sions. They have been discussed in med
) ical journals by physician whom l inter
ested in them.