The Washington times., 1894-08-29
QUEEN OF KNOWLEDGE.
Virginia n. Launt, Alias Princess Zaray yAd
judged Insane by jury and Sent
TO the AsyIum

The Princess Zara, Queen of knowledge, was
tried for Iunacy yesterday and found 70 be af-
ficted with acute mania. The information came
from the district attorneys Office, AND the trial
was by jury, with Marshal Wilson in charge Of the
trial Mr. o. c. Hine OF the district attorneys
Office, conducted the examination OF Witnesses
The true name of the person who gives herself
the above fanciful title is Virginia y. Lount
She is handsome lady over twenty-ive years
old, well dressed. vivacious, and attractive She
would grace any parlor aud might be unsus-
On the trial il was brought d ut that a year
ago she was found suffering with the hallucina-
tion that she was unequaled in wisdom and
the spirit world. She believed she was under
the inspiration of a spirit called Magenta.
When i'll she refused the medicine prescribed
by the doctor. She said she was being cared Tor
by the spirit Of FscuIapius the first master Of the
science of medicine, and IL would be a breach OF
etiquette 10 take medicine from any one else
Later she went 10 Baltimore and made dis
turbance at the Eutaw House, il is generally be
lieved, for the purpose OF advertising lecture
she was advertised To- give IN Washington "1or
the benefit of tho down trOdden masses She
rOundly abused Proprietor Stokes of the Eutaw
House, and said she wanted TO be arrested and
sent to the asylum when she would rival Nellie
Bly, by writing up the institution for the press
She also claimed TO have discovered the secret
of living without medicine or food. She had
discovered a concentrated elixir, TO be admin
istered hypodeEmically, which would prOl0ng
DR.. Fry was TO have a share. With the aid Of
DR.. Walsh she had invented a syringe 10 admin
lister the elixir, and the doctor and they were TO
become vastly wealthy from its sale.
Finally she, had herself billed 10 give lecture
at Convention Hall as the Modern Portia. She
proposed tC appear first as Cupid, dressed in a
sash only Soon after she figured one Of the
COxey contingent and devoted herself to the
spread of Coxey's doctrines.
Another case tried by the same jury was that
of Lulie Huntington. She was found wandering
ON the street with disheveled hair and q general
appearance of distress. ii was shown that she
is subject 10 hystercal Fl Is, in which she threat
ensIyiolence; that she has been for some time
hanging around public buildings, believing that
she was newspaper correspondent, making n
specially of criminal cases. Judge Pelham, at
whose Office she used sometimes 70 call, tried 10
get her to go back to her father in Texas, but
she declined, saying she had got the inside track
in the Senate sugar trust investigation, and was
going TO make millions out of il. She has been
married, but her husband is dead, and she has
no property, except a possible interest in her
| fathers estate, but his address is not known.
| She was found TO have acute mania and with
| Miss Lount was sent TO the asylum.
LegOna Spencer, a third woman, coloreG, who
| was to be tried was dismissed. upon representa-
tion from the secretary of the Peruvian legation
| that she would be cared for.