Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-08-01
CLEVER NEWSPAPER WORK.
j. E. Hutton of Mexico, Mo-, Does
Some Splendid Work for the st.
Louis Republic Hutton Would
Make a Brilliant Journalist.

DIR. John E. Hutton, of Mexico,M Mo-,
did some clever special work for the
st. Louis Republic within the last few
days. He went to Kansas City and
feigned insanity, was arrested, pro-
nounced crazy, which shows how east
ly physicians and officers of the law
can be fooled. TheKansasCity papers,
referring to this matter, says:
Star: For several days a reporter
for an eastern paper has been in Kan
sas City for the purpose of demon
strating how easily a perfectly sane
man may deceive medical men into
pronouncing him a lunatic. Last Tues
day afternoon the reporter rushed up |
to Observation-Disclosures at the juno
ton and demanded the return of his
plans for a flying machine which he
charged Mr.. Buckner with stealing.
Mr.. Buckner called a policeman and
the reporter was taken to police head
quarters for safe keeping. At the sta
ton he said that he was Sam Shannon
of Chicago. He claimed to have a
brother in st. Louis, but could not re-
member his address. He was placed
in charge of Humane Agent Green
man, who telegraphed to the street
number in Chicago. The reply was
that no Shannon yer lived there. The
next step taken to establish his ident-
ity was to find the hotel where he
stopped last Monday night, the night
he claimed to have arrived in the city.
But he pretended not to remember
the name of the hotel. All dayWednes-
day Officer Greeman put in visiting
the hotels of the city. Finally he was
taken before the city physician, who
| pronounced him demented and gave
| an order to send him to the City Hos
| pital to be treated. Thursday and
Friday nights the reporter remained
at the hospital, where he was pro-
nounced insane. Yesterday morning,
when he had fully satisfied himself
that he had deceived the physicians
and the police, he made himself known.
The hospital attendants refused to be-
lleve his story and then he SEM for
friends, who identified him as a news
paper man and perfectly sane.
Journal: Samuel Shannon, the crazy
man who was arrested several days
since in front of the New York Life
Building, for charging Attorney T. b.
Buckner with having destroyed some
of his valuable papers, was released
from custody yesterday by the city
officials.
World: Several days ago a young
man who claimed to be Samuel Shan
o of Chicago, was arrested on Main
street and locked up in the Central
Station, as he was supposed to be in
sane. He had rushed up to lawyer T.
b. Buckner and demanded valuable
papers concerning the invention of a
flying machine. The young mar was
sent to the City Hospital for treat
ment and was released yesterday ,as he
proved that he was not insane. He
was simply a realistic reporter, and
was pretending insanity to see what
effect it would have upon strangers.
The young man is an expert on insan-
ity and succeeded in hoodwinking all
who came in contact with him while
in a supposed demented condition.
Times: Samuel Shan non, the young
man who was taken up on the streets
last Tuesday and supposed to be in
sane, turns out to be an exceptionally
bright young man and by no means
demented. Shannon is none other
than a newspaper special correspond
ent, who came to Kansas City and
took this unique way to get an article.
His object was to illustrate that a
man who is reasonably clever can by a
little shrewd acting be said to be in
sane by experienced physicians. He
was declared demented by Humane
Officer Greenman, Chief Irwin, City
Physician Coffin and City Hospital
House Surgeon McVey. Mr.. Shan
non leaves for his home to-day.