The morning call., 1893-11-17
NO RAlLROADING.
Failure to Send a Woman
TO an Asylum.
A w oman Who Wrote Her Husband
-. =. =. That She. Would Never Live
!. ..::e. With Him Again.

=: OAKLKND.-Thsre was most peculiar
case before Judge Ellsworth and the In
sanity Commissioners: yesterday. and was
what Lawyer Tappan stated was nothing
less than an attempt to- railroad an old
woman, Mrs. Rosalie Trub. to an asylum
for the insane.
:. Mrs. Trub is a German woman of 6S
years, who, by her needle, had saved up
: several hundred oIars. She has hus-
band who isa worthless fellow. for many
: years having lived off her earnings and
had evidently caused her considerable
trouble. To rid herself Of his imp0rtuni-
j.: ,fies sba resolved upon peculiar move.
She approached a woman whom she had
known for years. Ewing in Alan eda-a
Mrs. Ofsen-and in June last entered into
:; an agreement with her that she give her
home ard coed. care for life, Mrs; Trub to
J. pay $780, most of her savings, for the
same. An. agreement was accordingly
;: drawn UP by Lawyer Tappan. and in his
:: presence: the money was handed over to
Mrs. Olsen.
:; This did not seem to rid Mrs. Trub of
her worthless. husband entirely. for he
:: Still appeared to bother her for money and
the popr woman has. talked. about suicide
10 get QGt:of her troubles.
:. This. sflicide talk seems to have given
: the Olsens something to act on, aud yes
terday Mrs. OseD's young husband (he is
"a and she is go aud worth S50,000) had
Mrs. TruU arrested On charge of in
sanity. -.
The. OIsens testified that she was dan
eer6us person because of threats to poison
herself and them.
Mrs. Trub denied that she had threat
ened to poison anybody, but said she felt
sometimes like killing herself because she
WIS heart-br0ken. She said that the
Olsens had not given her good home aud
that Olsen had once beaten her, for which
he was arrested, but escaped conviction.
Judge Ellsworth made no comments on
the case, but he evidently felt pretty
strongly of certain features of it when he
declared Mrs. Trub not insane and dis
charged her.
AS the. party filed out of the room Law
yer Tappan gave the Olsens this parting
sbot:
Now in the future see that you give
this poor woman a good and pleasant
home. as you said you would in the agree
ment."
Not a Plain Desertion.
Frederick Boole, formerly of Berkeley.
was granted a divorce from his wife,
Mande NJ. Boole, yesterday, on the ground
OF deserton. 1t was not one of the plain
everyday deserticns common in such cases.
either.
B0oe Is rather well-to-do man OF 80
years and was married to Maude nj. In
1899. 1he young couple set sail on the sea
OF matrlnony under happy auspices and
lived IN g0hd style in Berkeley for brief
season. The>wife was pretty. but with
temper that was fiery in the extreme, ac-
cordlng to the husbands story to Court
Commissioner Whitney.
One bright afternoon Mrs. Boole left
nome ana never returned. The lusband's
patience in waiting at last gave out. and
he went abroad to seek her. He went 20
the nome 0f her parents in San francisco,
and there, sure enough, was the truant
wife, and there she determned to stay de-
spite the pleadings of the disconsolate
Booie.
AS an additional bait to catch the vile
Boole broke up his Berkeley home and
proceeded TO fit up an establishment in
San Francisco of which any spouse might