Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-15
WRECK OF A LIFE.
Close of Sara Althea Terry's
Troubled Career.
SAD SEQUEL TO A sADDSR HISTORY.

II er Troubles Drive Her Insane and. 10
Alive, Her Home VIII be a Madhoust-
Strange vagaries of Her Disordered
Brain - Telephone Communication
With the Other Shore-Her sudden
Disappearance From Friends House
A Fateful Law Suit.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. i5-Sarah AIthea
Terry, who gained such notoriety by her
divorce suit against ex-senator Sharon
and her subsequent marriage to Judge
Terry, has become insane over spiritual
ism. She has been very eccentric ever
since Terry was shot down by Officer
Neagle at the Lathrop eating station the
moment after he slapped Justice Fields
face. The fact that the court held Neagle
blameless drove her nearly insane, and
this feeling was aggravated by troubles
which she had with her attorney in Fres-
no. She claimed that this attorney made
love to her and she produced several anna
tory letters he had written. This enraged
him, and when she called at his Office to
get her law papers he elected her and the
courts justified him in doing so.
Thought She Had Been Robbed.
Mrs. Terry about three months ago came
to this city and bought some articles at
dry goods stores. She claimed few days
later that her trunk had been robbed in a
lodging house where she hired a ROOM ard
she enumerated silks and satins worth
s., 900 that had disappeared. The case was
thrown out of court and she was not heard
from again until Thursday, when she
came here from Stockton. She was placed
by friend in the house of Editor Gull
breth, of the City Argus, aud nurse was
hired to care for her, as she seemed to be
laboring under tremendous excitement.
DIR. Gilmore attended her and he says it is
a clear case of dementia due to worry over
her affairs and dabbling in spiritualism.
Gets Telephone Messages from Spirits.
She sits for hours in one place with a
pocket handkerchief rolled up and placed
to her ear like the holder of a telephone
She says she gets all kinds of messages
through this handkerchief from her friends
in the spirit land, and she handed the
handkerchief to a reporter who saw her
and asked him if he didn't hear whispers
coming through IT. She looks very old and
haggard, and her pale face is flushed with
fever. Her pulse runs high, but she seems
insensible to heat or cold. At night Sarah
becomes very violent and calls for Judge
Terry and for Porter Ashe, whom she says
she towels dearly, as his father was a
bosom friend Of Terry in early days.
The Wreck of a Fair Woman.
The poor woman is physical and men
tai wreck, although She is not over forty
years old. She had only remnant of
property left, Judge Terry's estate having
been heavily mortgaged and badly man
aged. When the sharon divorce suit be-
gan in March, 1854, she was a remarkably
handsome woman. and since then she has
been almost constantly before the public
She never got a cent from the Sharon es-
tate, and about six months ago the last
of her appeals was denied by the federal
court. She was born in 1870 al Cape Girar-
deau, Mo. and in her youth was the most
beautiful woman in the vicinity, but very
eccentric and ho;-temperpd.