The sun., 1892-02-14
SARAH ALTHEA rs INSANE.
WORRY AND sPIRITUALISM AFFECT
HER REASON


She Receives ssirit Messages Through .
Handkerchief Fashioned 10 ReseHbie 9
Telephone 1feider = People who Have
Beeh Ruiaea By Her Faaoss LitisstiaH-
Ban FRANcrsco. Fob. 13.-Sarah Althea Terry,
who gained such notoriety BY her divorce suit
against ex-senator Sharon and her subsequent
marriage with Judge Terry. has become In.
sane over spirltualism. she has been very
eccentric ever since Terry was shot
down by Policeman Ncagle at the
Lathrop eating station tho 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
Fresno. She asserted that this attorney made
love to her. and she produced several nmatory
letters he had written. This enraged him
aud when she called ut his ONCE to get her
law pnpors he brutally elected her. To the
disgrace Of the Fresno courts they held that
his action was justinnble.
Mra Terry, about thrco months ago. came
to this city and bought some articles at dry
goods stores 6ho asserted few days
lator that her trunk had been robbed in
the lodging house whore ehe had hired
a room. and she enumerated silks and
satins worth $1,000 that had disappeared. Her
case was thrown out OF court. and sl,o wasn't
heard from again until Lust Thursday, when
she came here from Stockton. She wns placed
By u friend In the house Of Editor Culbrcth OF
the City Argus. and nurse was hired to cnre
for her rs sho seemed laboring undcr tremen-
dous excitement. She has now been two days
in her room. attended by DR.. Gilmore. Tho
Doctor says it's q clear case Of demcntia duo
to worry over her affairs and dabblng in spr-
itualism. She sits for hours In ono place with
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placed to her ear like the holder
OF telephone. She says she gets
all kinds Of messages through this handker-
chief from hor friends in spirit and, and she
handed tho handkerchief to a reporter who
saw her and asked him II he didn't hear Wills
pers coming through it.
She looks very old and hngGard. and her
face Is flushed with fever. Her pulse runs
high. but she seems inscnsible to heat or
cold. At night che becomes very violent and
calls loudly for Judge Terry and for Porter
Ashs. whom she Gays she loves. dearly. Ashe
Bosom ifTHx friend oi Terry y'' in % early days.
g. yssSSss A% e, oPP9snS tns 5
she 'st secured a divorce aiter much Scandal.
He Is well known on the turf as ths owner OF
iriended Mrs. Terry after tho shooting OF hcr
husband. and Ia about the only one OF Terry's
Old lr1ends VINO mas been abie 10 endure Aer
she also calls fer Morgan Hin. her brother,
her Committed to the asylum. As ret she
has shSwn Tendency to yo
will incr ease. Last night she escaped for
moment from the nurs" md was found prom
enading the front We sndt with no covering
except long seaisA.l cloak. lnvestiga-
visit Visit to this sity she haunted The @ rooms ot Of
several spiritualist mediums. and spent there
all the money she had trying to get light on
her law case and advice from the spirit Of
Judge Terry.
Tho poor woman is n physical and mental
wreck. although she is not over 40 years old.
She has only remnant Of property loft, Judge
Terry's estate having been heayily mortgasee.d
and badly managed: When the % sharon d.
remarkably handsome woman. and since then
she has been almost constantly hefore tho
public. She never got a cent from the sharon
estate. and about, six months ago the last OF
her appeals was denied by the Federal Court.
part in this famous ca SO is dead or broken in
fortune due directlyto some outgrowth Of the
case Sharon died years before his time owing
9s s rt, s
cause Of his devotion to the suit. and
his hi prestige. sarah,':s leading COUNSEL:
crooked work done in the trial. seyeral q the
witnesses in the case We're convicted OF per-
jury and two were sent to San Quentin.
Judge Sullivan who delivered the decision
estate. has tried twice 70 get get ont on the M suprene
bench. but each time the Sharon influence has
beaten him, aud he Is now practising lawyer.
Now Sarah herself winds upth procession.