The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-02
BURNED HER MONEY
MRS. KATE GRADY TOUCHES A
MATCH TO OVER p 900 IN Hills.
Strange Hallucinatfon OF n Women
Who Fancfes Her Husband and
Friends Despise Her.

The people living in the vicinity Of No.
529 South New Jersey street. are talking
about the strange case OF Mrs. Kate Grady,
an estimable woman forty years of age, who
lives at that number. Only a few OF the
near friends and relatives know OF the case.
Mrs. Grady is from all appearances suffer-
ing from a mental disorder. for one day last
week she deliberately burned between
$1,000 and $1,5Ce in paper money. The family
discovered the loss WREN they found a guam
tity of burnt matches and a few partially
burned bills, in and about the crate Mrs.
Grady declines to explain her strange action
and the family decline TO talk about it.
Mrs. Grady was recently married to NJ.
Grady. employed by the Indianapolis Gas
Company. at that time she had accemu-
lated quite a sum by thrift and good man
agement To this was added the savings
of her sister. which the two women recently
withdrew from bank, with the intention of
making an investment. The sum aggre-
gated something like 81, 400. Some say IL was
more and some place the amount at a less
t.ure, but 1t is known that the sun was
not far from $500. Only q few asnes and a
few fragments Of this snug little sum re-
main, for the work of Mrs. Grady was COM
piete and sne was NOT satssued until the
last dOiiar had been destroyed.
For some time MRS. Crazy has been q
n Lac iIldAdQf dSSIIItGQ tho
appearance or ineiancnoiIa- AT sucn Times
SHE wound sit mOIaonieSS Tor nuuts, reluS-
ing TO speak to those nearest and dearest
TO her. Upon these occasions her love Tor
ner husband seemed 20 turn TO nate, and
she would refuse TO have any tnIng at All
10 do wfIn MN. SnS WOu1u iIlaSiie, at
these times, lnal her nuspanu WAS ner foe,
and she would 0eciarc that ne snOulu never
nave one cent or ner money. AS Alr. Grady
Is a man or excenenr reputation ana nass
conSluerapIe means, the Charge maze Dy mis-
wIe Was CONSIDERED aosuru. All ne wanted
WAS "a rn N - nr MN - - az a sln u-,tk IN n-..
opJect In View he mas consulted a halt
dozen or the best pny sIcians In Inc city. liz
As underS.ood tAal DrS. w. Il. Flelener and
suitation, but these Two gentlemen decnne
co talk OF the case, tor the reason that they
-iiuersand the Iamiiy wants nothing SAID
ABOUT the matter. both auIiiiIteu, however.
TO a journal reporter that Iney nave seen
Mrs. Crazy. anu prescribed tor her.
Inc money Was destroyed one day last
week. Inc family returned IN the evening
to find Mrs. Grady in the best OF spirits. il
was thought by them, at first, that she was
on the road TO recovery. Later 81 hundred
or more matches were found on the noor.
In the pan under the CRATE was a small
pile OF asnes, the remains of a Hfe's saving.
Two or three of bills were found
among these ashes. One was the corner of
a teI-doIiar bill, announcer a twenty ana an
other a fifty. An nvesugation Was mdde and
it was learned that the money of the two
sisters was missing and the family realized.
that Mrs. Grady nad burned it. From all
appearances it. seems that the unfortunate
woman sat down before the hre with
matches and money. She then lit the
matches one by. one and watched one bill
after another go UP IN hane and smoke.
lions and ii is impossible to anaIyZe ner
motives. The doctors have advised the FAM
lily to have her removed to a private sani-
treatment and, probably. within a short
time she will be well and strong. ~