The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-30
SHE BLAMES CONE
POOP MOTHER Whey HAS TIRRI-
BILE HALLUCINATION.
1t Isn't Bill Tiger that She is Afraid of but
the Ex-Chief of Police-She Ayers that
He Sits on Her Porch Every Night with
Bundles of Dynamite to Blow Her With
She Also Thinks He is Chasing Her
with the Hoodium Wagon-Neighbors
Afraid She will Commit Suicide if Not
Cared For.

There was great excitement down on
South Mosley acenue yesterday.
Mother Whey IS the name of a wo-
man living at 537 that street, and there
is not day but what the poor woman
| causes excitement among her neigh
! bors, who are not among the 400 or
| eligible 10 membership in a millionaire
/ club. She was worse yesterday than
| at any time before, and the neghbors
| think that she must be sent TO an
| asylum.
| Mrs. Whey thinks that RUFF Cone is
seeking to burn her house and blow her
/ up with dynamite. She also thinks
| that he is continually chasing her with
the hoodlum wagon. She was crying
| and bawling on the street yesterday,
and said she was going to commit sui
| eide.
a reporter for the Eagle went down
to see Mrs. Whey yesterday, but she
was not at home.
Across the street from her lives a
colored woman named Mrs. Belts, and
when she got through informing q
peddler that she didn't want any more
of his goods, she submitted 10 an inter-
view on the situation.
Mrs. Belts wiped away a tear, and
Mother Whey, she said: The poor
woman thinks that Rufe Cone is after
| her to burn her house and blow her up
with dynamite"
Are YOU sure it is Rufe Cone and,
not Tiger Bill she is afraid OFF"
Yes, sir. / am sure. l don't think
that she knows that there Tiger Bill.
/ know it is RUFF Cone that she talks
about. Didn't she come screaming over
hnrISa iVe ~ a
Rufe Cone was putting dynamite under
her house all night and blowing it up?
Il told her that she was mistaken,
but she said that she wasn't, and that
RUFF Cone was chasing her around
every night with the hOOdlum wagon
with two big policemen in it.
Il then told her that that was a
fight of her imagination, and she done
said that she would kill herself as she
had the poison in the house"
do you think there is danger that
she will kill herself?'
II do, sir: for she had a pow'ful big
knife stuck down in her bosom. l done
saw the handle of it sticking out. The
other women make fun Of her, but 1
don't and she always come TO me to tell
me her stories. She hollered across
the road to me the other day and told
me that Mrs. Jennings put coal oil in
her house and wanted to burn it, and
that RUFF Cone was helping her"
What do You think is the matter
with her?"
Il think the poor woman is gone
crazy from studying"
What does she study, the Bible?'
Law me. no sir. She studies over
things. 1 don't mean that she studies
over books or papers, but that she
looks out of her eyes and thinks. /
tell you that poor woman is crazy, and
she ought to be taken care Of
During all this time that Mother
Whey thought that RUFF Cone was
blowing uD her house with dynamite,
RUFF was rusticating in the Rocky
mountains and he says that Mrs.
Whey IS unknown to him. She still
thinks that he is the chef of police.
IT is the opinion down in that neighbour
hood that she will commit suicide if she
is not taken care of and watched.