The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-14
"A MAD, MAD WORLD.
cranlss Tread on .cne Another's
Heels 80 Fast They Come.
ARE MOSTLY MILLIONAlREs
In Their Own Minds...Thc Record. Of
Ono Day in Now York citv...Artist
Gobotto, Hotel Clerk Griffin, Broker
Bullar, Advcnturer Do Leon and
Talmngc's Double. ,s

NEw York, Jan. l3.-Walter II. Griffin,
thirty-nine years old, n former clerk Of
tho Hotel Marlborough, at Broadway
and Thirty.sixth street, was placed in
the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hos
pi,al yesterday to await formal commit
mcnt to an insane asylum.
Griffin was returned to this city from
Rochester, N. Y, whero for a brief
period he had been confined in tho
State Asylum for the Insane. He up.
pcared at tho police headquarters in
that city on New Years night, and do
clared that he had been in tho railroad
wreck at Hastings, and that he had lost
& $1,000 in the accident. lie informed
tho chief OF police OF Rochester that
Police Inspector Byrnes, Governor
Flower and Lieutenant Governor shee.
han werc locked up ip that city and
that his intention was TO release them.
He was examined and committed by
the Rochester authorities, by whom he
was returned 10 Now York.
GriiIin's mania is that he is cnor-
mously wealthy. Hc asserts that he
owns controlling interest in tho New
York Central Railroad, and that he is
the owner OF nearly all tho hotels in
New York. He estimates his wealth at
at about S50,000,0p0.
= The unfortunate man came original
ly from Haverhill, Mass, where he hus
relatives still living. His mania first
Z developed itself last August, when no
entered the Hotel Marlborough and
created disturbance by proclaiming
himself proprietor and ordering every.
one to leave the premises. Ho was
published in the Herald at the time and
Griffin cloimed that he had been gricv-
ously injured by the publication, He
placed. his case in lawyers hands
and instituted a libel suit to recover
heavy damages
ARTIST GoBATTo GOES CRAZY.
Antonio Gobatto, an Italian artist,
s was arraigned in Jefferson Market po-
lice court and committee to Bellevue
hospital for examination as to his sanity.
DR.. &. Bettini,di Noise, who was the
complainant in the case, is tho proprie-
tor OF a private hospital at No. 5 Uni
versity place.
He visited Jefferson Market court yes
terday morning and from Justice Diver
secured an order of,arrest for the crazed
artist, who was Al inmate OF the Uni.
versity place hospital. Gobatto was
{ violent and it required the united efforts
OF five men to get him into cub.
The afflicted man is well known
artist, celebrated as m exponent OF the
/ Venetian school OF art. Until recently
he has been employed in high class
decorating by Potter, Stymus & Com
pany, OF No. 375 Lexington avenue, He
resigned his position there early in
November and reluctantly placed him
self under tho care OF Or. di Noise,
claiming that he feared something was
mentally wrong with him. Once before
no had been an inmate Of the doctors
house under similar circumstances, and
in o few weeks had resumed work in
much better health and spirits. But
this time his fears were realized. De-
mentia developed rapidly and for
F week past the University place hospital
has been in constant state OF uproar.
THIS ONE A swINoLEE.
CASTOR dc Leon, who is, in the Ray.
mond street Jail, Brooklyn. and whose
mental condition will be inquired into
on Thursday before Justice Goetting,
in the Leo avenue police court, will
have a serious charge to face il he IS de-
cided sane,
Charles NJ. Kozlay, who has a print
ing Office at No. $40 Adams street,
charges that De Leon obtained money
from him under false pretences. He
says that on December 5 De Leon ap-
piled to him for employment. When it
was refused he asked for something to
cat. The story OF his troubles seemed
SO genuine that Kozlay loaned De Leon
money to 60 to Philadelphia and pro-
cure the Identification necessary to get
money from Droxel, Morgan & Co, with
whom he said he had funds. a few
days later no loaned Dc Leon $40 to pay
ior identification at the French Consul,
I ate in this city. s,
Kozlay says that De Leon told him
his name was Gastin G. Morticr and
that his home was at No. 81 Rue dc
y Rivoli, Paris. He also claimed to be a
count and that he was connected with
tho house Of Orleans.
- Mr.. kozlaY has receipt for tho $40
in the name Of tho French consulate
which has been pronounced forgery,
but tho handwriting is unlike that Of
De Leon.
5 When saw Do Leon yesterday after
noon in the Raymond street Jail he do
S MED kozluy's charges. He admitted
having applied to him for employment,
but said that he had not obtained any
money from him.
Ho insisted that he had been robbed
in Havana, and told me that two men
had been following him over since no
arrived in Amerlca-a little over q
month ago.
A BROKERS' MIND wANpERs,
George w. W. Bullard, forty years
old, OF No. $50 Pacific street, Brooklyn,
formerly prominent member Of the
stock exchange OF this city, was taken
before Justice Tighe, in the Butler
street police court, yesterday, on COM
plant OF his mother Mrs. Nancy Bull
lard, who accused hor son of attempt
ing to choke her.
Bullard's sanity is to DO examined, as
his mental responsibility is doubtful.
Hc was sent to the insane asylum ct
Poughkeopsie five years ago, and 70.
s manned there about year. His father
died after he had been there year, and
Billiard was paroled for ten days. He
appeared to have recovered and re.