The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-25
IT'S A SAD CASE INDEED
Hrs. Carrie Mould9r. HoIhar Of Fin,
Children, HOpslsssly Insane.
SHE is AN OBJECT OF PITY
For Some Time the Unfortunate
Woman Has Recognizes the
Fact That Her Mind ives
FaIlIne-Ungrateful Sons.

BUTTE, April 24.-One of the saddest
cases of insanity that has ever come be-
fore tho courts of Silver Bow county 10
that of Mrs. Carrie Moulder, who was ex-
aminel by q commission before Judge
Mediation this evening and ordered COM
mitted to the asylum. The unfortunate
woman is the widow of the late William
Moulder. who died over two months ago
after suffering for more than a year from
a cancer. She is the mother of five chill
dren, the eldest of whom is about IA years
old and the youngest q girl of 2.
Mrs. Moulder has two sisters in tho in
sane asylums and several months ago, i'm
mediately after the death of her husband,
her mind began to fail her and she recog-
nixed that she was gradually losing her
mind. For q year she has devotedIy
nursed her sick husband and bore up we'll
under the strain, but she began to fail as
soon rs her husband died. Her insanity
at first took n religious turn and she
prayed almost constantly and would kneel
wherever she happened to be when the fit
seized her, .sometimes on the streets or in
a neighbours house. Then she began to
neglect her children and herself. and for
some time the neighbors took care of
them, but becoming tired of IL the county
physicians we're requested to look after
them. DIR. McCrimmon attended the poor
woman for some time and provided her
with nurse, but she grew gradually
worse. When the doctor first waited on
her, the only evidence of approaching in
sanity was her lapse of memory.
II am going crazy" the poor woman
often exclaimed. II feel It coming on"
She was yet sensible enough to know that
she was neQlecting her children and often
spoke of it, but said she could not help it,
as she had lost oil concern for them. d b.
II arm lost, am lost,n she shrieked as
she talked about the mental weakness
that was growing on her.
During the last week or so her case as
sunued more the character OF pronounced
melancholia and she talked very little and
answered few questions. When spoken
to in court to-day she replied only with
mods and shakes of her head. The doc
tors who examined her said her case was
hopeless and that she would never re-
cover her reason. Her nurse, Mrs.
Chapman, testified that she slept very
little and walked the floor day and night.
One of her Authorizations was that the
house was on fire and she was in con-
slant fear of burning to death. So far
she has been perfectly harmless.
The commission that examined the
poor woman was composed of DIR. Camp
bell, A. N. Yoder and b. f. Calkins. She
has no relatives in this country so far as
known except her children. Both she
and her late husband were natives OF
England.
1t has not yet been decided what shall be
done with the five children, but it is prob
able that three youngest Will be sent the
TO the children's home. The two eldest,
both boys, will possibly be sent to the re-
form school, as they are said to be fit
subjects for the institution. Neighbors
tell some shameful cries of the treat
ment the two boys accorded their afflicted
mother.