The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-13
.BLAMES KEELEY'S CURE.
William Garretson Claims That II
Is Responsible For His
Wife's Insanity.
Treated For the Alcoholic Habit
She Developed Mental
Trouble Later.
uuss system was Broken Down Entirely,
Leaving Her > Wreck, Both Physi-
cally and Mentally.

"A tall, stately woman, who had been seen
wandering nimlessly about the streets of
Hoboken for several hours. stopped at the
door of the church of Our Lady Of Grace
on Willow avenue late on Saturday evening.
gathered 4 number OF children around her
and began singing TO them in a plaintivo
tone, says the New York Recorder. Police
man Wsihe, who came up and listened to
the ainging, said to her in = kindly way that
her audience seemed to appreciate her eff
forts. She did not pay the slightest attsn-
tion to him, and at last, seeisg that her
mind was wandering, he took her to the
station house. The sergeant on duty tried
to get a statement from her, but she would
not answer any questions or tell anything
about herself. He remembered that q gen
eral alarm had been sent from Jersey City
for a missing woman. and this ono answered
the description. Word was sent to the Jcr-
sey City police. and late in the evening a
gentleman called at the Hoboken police
headquarters, said that ho was William
Gnrretson and Identified the woman 81 Eve
Ign Garrstson, his wife.
Mr.. Galretson is. a young man and be-
longs to one of the oldest and most re-
spected families in Hudson county. He
took his wife home in q carriage. The fact
Of the arrest and Identification did not leak
out until Yesterday, and it created q great
deal Of commotion in jersey City, where
Mr.. Garretson has his homo at 80 Gardner
avenue. having moved there several months
ago from q fiat in Ninth avenue near For
tisth street, this city. He was formerly q
partner with his brother in the grocery and
liquor business in Twenty-third street near
sixth avenue and lived with his wife in q
handsomely furnished flat over Bristols.
Sixth avenue near Iwenty-third street.
His brother was for yeas u partner in the
Arm of Farrier g. Garretson, who had charge
Of all the city plumbing contracts i'll Jersey
City.
Mrs. Garretson, after she was taken homo
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 an insane
asylum az coon as suitable arrangements
can be made. He attributes his wife's
dementia to the treatment given her at the
Kelley institute at White Plains, which, he
alleges. broke down her system entirely and
left her n physical and mental wreck. He
says that Mrs. Garretson became q victim
Of the alcoholic habit a long time ago.
During q long and very severe sickness she
had been fed on alcoholic 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 80
strong that she would sacrifice everything
to get liquor, and her family ties, her love
for her children and home did not have any
restraining effect upon her. 4@
Mrs. Garretson was removed quietly to the
Kelley institute at White Plains last
August, in hopes that the terrible habit
might be broken. She spent five weeks at
White Plains. Her husband visited her
---.1..I- .-lv hol M fon1t IN find with the
care that was gwen to her. He says that
Dr.. Vandenberg. one of the physicians at
the institute, told him that Mrs. Garretson
was so nervous and exeitable that it would
be unsafe to give her the full treatment;
that it would be dangerous to give her GER
tain of the drugs used.
'.Mrs. GRrretsOn was somewhat broken
down when she vent to White Palms., said
Mr.. Garretson yesterday. but she was in a
great deal worse condition after she left.
Within a month after she came home 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 in Washington Square. She
was taken to a hospital and did not have
the slightest recollection of where she had
been n what she had been dong. A con-
slant watch had to be kept on her to pre-
vent her from going away from home. NV
wife's present condition appears to be SINH
lar to that of several other OF the patients
who have had the Kelley treatment, and l
believe that her mental arrangement il due
largely to the treatment that she received
at the institute.
ssh has periods when she seems to be
perfectly rational, and then suddenly she
has delusions of a religious sort md spends
her time singing and praying. I thought
that she would outgrow the effect of the
drugs, but she seems to be getting worse,
and now that she shows a tendency to do
violence to herself and others she will have
to be taken to an asylum. She had a very
severe attack on Sunday and smashed q
large mirror. When she vent away the
last time she said that she WAS going to
visit some friends she had met at White
Plains, but she did not go near them. and /
asked the assistance of the police in finding
her. She shows at times q suicidal tend
enoy. and would then kill herself if she had
a chance"
Mrs. Garretson has two lovely children,
and since her husband INST with business
reverses she has assisted him BY giving
music lessons. Some of her pupils are the
children of the wealthiest persons in Jer-
sey City, and Mrs. Garretson was very
we'll thought of everywhere.
VICTORIA'S CROWN.