New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-09
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TIE MARBLE SISTERS INSANE.
TEMPORARILY CONFINED IN BELLEVUE Hos
rirAI Until THEY CAS- DE TAKEN
TO Az ASYLUM


To An ASYLUM
Aror they had made repeated enloavOrs to Kill
themselves. Harriet :. and Mary \. McArile. SIS
t.rs thrty-seven and forty years old. respectively.
were removed from the home OF their parents, No.
eu East Scyenty-srventh-st. late Sunday night to
bellevue Hospital. and placed in the female insane
ward Neighbors had watched the two girls all
day sunday and until 1880 o'clock at night when
the police were called in Time after time tho sis
tors had tried to dash themselves from n window
- the street. AMI they restrained by main
force The police say the girls undoubtedly IN
h.rlt insanity. James McArdle father or the SIS
t,rs. retired carpenter and builder eighty
years 3D. has spent five years In an Insane asylum.
tho police declare. al old Mrs. McArlle his wife.
ha. been insane for twenty years. but Is now at
home. bedriIicn and helpless. The McArdie sisters
VIII be sent private asylum.
The McArdc family occupy six rooms comfortably
furnished ON the third floor OF the hathouse No.
2u East seventy seventh-st. Mary. who Is an eN-
pert dress-cu,ter. employed until FIVE weeks
ago IN Lord a Tayors Gran!-st store. she had an
attack Of the grip at that time, and has been Ill
I'm bed ever since To Harriet. who is also "A dress
cutter and maker. fell the lot or nursing her sister
During all the i've weeks she had been In at
tendance at Nary's bedside almost night and day.
taking a few hours rest the chances afforded.
The almost ceaseess vigil utterly exhausted her and
increased her natural nervousness until the thread
which held her mental balance snapped and she
suddenly became transformed from IA patient nurse
into violent maniac.
This happened AZ 10 o'clock Sunday morning just
after she had carefully arranged the pillows FOR her
suffering sister. Mary had been more than usually
exac;ing in her demands for attention and Harriet
had worked over her all the morning. Harriet
seized a bottle containing carbolic acid In her SIS
tcr's bedroom. poured some into a tumbler. and with
the words "Goodby. Mary" was about 10 drink
the burning uid. when the sick woman leaped from
the bed aud dashed the tumbler from Harriet ~
hand Harriet. with II shrek, dashed out OF the
bedroom to the front room. She made straight for
"A window, and had partially raised the sash when
neighbors who In the room interfered.
The crazcd woman fought frantically. but was
forced to lie down
At this moment Mary appeared In the room In her
night dress. and made "A rush for the same window
Harriet had tried to jump from a few minutes be-
fore. Mary, too, seized before she could jump
and carried back TO bed.
old Mr.. McArdle, now sane but feeble, had gone
TO church. and Mrs. McArdle was lying helpless In
bedroom. The neighbors decided IL would
I be unsafe to leave the two insane alone.
they remained and watched them. Several
times during the day the sisters made efforts to
get at the windows. but We're restrained.
The McArdle family are in comfortable circum-
stances and the stay of the sisters In Bellevue will
he only temporary II they show signs OF i'm
provcmcnt they will be removed to IA private asy-
/ lum.