The morning call., 1893-03-16

returned he had conceived the deluson that
Attel had stolen from him a pair of shears
which he had brought with him from
France, and which he esteems very highly
on account of its magical qualities.
He prosecuted Attel in such a manner
that the latter had him brought before the
Insanity Commissioners. who committed
MIN t. NaDa, where he was confined for
thirteen months, and from which place he
has only recently been discharged.
On returning to this city be armed him.
self with pistol ana knife, but only, as he
explains, with the intention OF Tightening
Attel, and demanded Of the tailor the return
OF the magical shears.
He was thereupOn arrested and charged
with assault, but District Attorney Barnes
believed lie should be tried for Insanity in
stead. Mueller asked for jury trial, and
his request as granted.
The testimony seemed coneusiVs that
Mueller was perfectly sane; that he was
man of refinement and education, and ordi-
narily as gentle a girl.
He took the stand and answered all the
questions OF his attorney in a rational way
still claiming, however that his precious
TO bring a civil suit for their recovery. He
explained the fact of his long hair by say
Ing that be had been thirteen months IN the
asylum and bad neglected 10 cut it.
Mr.. Barnes then cToss-eXamined him as
TO his tailoring hobby. expecting, no doubt,
that he would exhibit symptoms of insanity,
as he Is SAID to be mOnomaniac on this
subject,
But Mueller said very little
81 have worked out a system Of measur-
Ing which is superior to anything in use.
and 1t gives the talors better chance" he
said.
After answering few more questions he
was allowed to leave the stand, and his
counsel made an eloquent plea to the Jury
He claimed that Mueller was willing to
stand a trial by jury for his Offense, but
that at most he was crank and not crazy
and had a sane mans horror Of going to an
asylum. The doctors at Napa had dis
charged him already as possessed OF a per-
feetly sound mind.
Then the jury went out to deliberate and
the few occupants of the courtroom gathered
around the Samson-haired tailor and asked
him questions.
He had a book in his hand, which he
offered to one of the circle Of bystanders.
II was perhaps the most curious volume
ever brought into court Of justice.
The cover was folded chrome, the edges
OF which were curiously scallOped: the
pages al the beginning and end of the book
were piclures-the most heterogeneous in
character that can be imagined.
There was the Palace of the Tuileries
and the faces OF European diplomats.
There were pages of statistics, cut random,
and engraYings Of out-ol-the-way places
End things.
But IN the center Of his book was the real
curiosity.
There were fifteen or twenty pages of
common writing paper, on which he had
drawn his mystical diagrams and tables.
There was picture of a half man and
half monkey, with long hair, arranged in
the same fashion as thatof Meuller himself,
linen there was ge0metrica design, with
''rime," Eternity" and "Arbitrate" i'm
the center and tables running from the
ends. On the next page was the drawing of
book, the back Of which came to a point
at one end, and on the cover OF which were
hier0gly phics of stars and dots.
Then followed page of music bars, with
no notes upon them. Drawings of semi
nude figures followed, and then there were
q half-dOZen pages of circles divided into
minute segments and filed with figures and
Signs and ssmbols, like thousand zodiacs
crowded together.
ut is very hard for me to explain to the
unlearned," said Mueller, eying his mys-
tical tablets with pride, but il is n most
beautiful invention for cutting On, it Is
very complicated and took much brain, but
1t IS very simple If you could get the key.
Every suit OF clothes made should add d
profit Of some part Of a cent 10 every cutter
in the city, for the profits should be divided
among all the men, and not so much go 10
the owner of the shop. My invention will
make all Of that come out right" and he
fondled his diagram like a loving parent.
Judge Levy was busy examining this
unique contribution to modern bibliOgTephy,
when the jury filed in and handed in Yer-
dict OF sane.
They had not examined the book.
After being dismissed several members Of
the jury shook hands with the eccentric
tailor ana admonished him 10 let Attel
alone.
Il thank you. gentlemen" said Mueller,
almost with tears in his eyes. II dislike to
be thought insane. l viii not attack that
man again; but l will introduce my system
Of cutting. and also get my shears back.
Gentlemen. let ne thank you again.