The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-18
In A MADMAN'S CLUTCHES.
w. /. Jamison in a nost Terrifying
Position
FOR FOUR LONG AID WEARY HOURS

ListeninS TO the rawlings of = Maniac
Who Would Not Let Him Go.
w. L Jamison, the we'll known coiored
lawyer, is recovering from the effects of
a prolonged and terrifying interview
with mailman. When Charles Whites
mania came on, White, who had hereto
fore been regarded as perfectly sane, sent
for AR. Jamison to come to his shop at
112 West Fourth street, saying that he
wished to confer with him on important
legal business. Mr.. Jamison went, ar
irving at 10 o'clock in the morning, and
he got away at in the afternoon.
It took the attorney but a moment to
SEQ Whites condition. He tried to pa
city him and then said; "Well, l must be
GO"
mo, you amt" shouted White as he
stood up. shaking his fist over the law
yer. II want to work your mind a lit
tie"
Mr.. Jamiscn began to have visions of
a death struggle with a mailman. such
as he had read about in the Sunday ed
itions of sensational morning dailies.
He glanced around the little room and
his eye slighted on the dozen keen razors
with the use of which the crazy man was
SO familiar. Then he looked at the
| quivering fist and wild eyes of the ma
MAC. He concluded to stay awhile
longer.
White became calm again and began
unfolding his insane ideas of prosecut-
ing a colored man. Whom the lawyer
had listened another hour to him and
White showed no signs of exhaustion,
Mir. Jamison began well, really, Mr..
White l had better -"
Again the crazy man sprang up and
drew back his fists to strike. "YOu can't
go until I'm through with you," he
| cried
Mr.. Jamison could't think of anything
he had on hand just then, SO he thought
he would stay and chat awhile.
People came in to get shaved, but
! White refused to work, saving he was
bnsy with his lawyer, aud his customers
| left in a sort of dazsd wonder, trying to
| think what could have come over the
man. Twelve o'clock, one o'clock pass
ed, and still there was no hope of get
ting away. The lawyer began to count
the hours and minutes it had been since
he had had his Breakfast, and wondered
if he would ever see anything to eat
again.
Mr. Jamison had left a notice at his
Office where he was and people began
coming down to the shop TO see him.
Whenever one stuck his head inside the
door aud asked if Mr.. Jamison were
there White would shout, as he rushed
to the door, Eyes, he is, but he's busy
and you can't see him"
As the affair grew more serious the
attorney let his eyes roam around the
room for some chance to signal for help,
or some direction in which to make
wild dash for liberty. White proved
himself mind reader for he got up and
pulled down all the curtains and locked
the door Il was too dark in the shop
for Mr.. Jamison even to have vision.
Along about o'clock relief came
White concluded he had unfoIded
enough to mis- attorney for him to make
case, and the door was unlocked, and
Dir. Jamison ran three blocks for a lunch
counter
Worn out with the conference of the
day, the colored lawyer retired early
that evening. At 2 o'clock in the morn
ing he was awakened by W hite, who in
sisted on his going to 118 Kansas avenue
to tell his wife of the suit he was to
bring. Mr.. Jamison went ostensibiy to
do as directed, but really to confer with
Mrs. White about the mans condition.
Although White promised TO remain at
the barber shop until Jamison and the
man who accompanied him returned,
they had been at his wife's home but
few moments when he came knocking on
the door and house with a large cane
which he carried, swearing he would
kill them all on sight He was persuad-
ed by a policeman not to do it, and MIR.
Jamison returned to his home, and his
adventure was over.
Whites failing health was brought on
by sickness. He will be taken to the