Arizona republican., 1896-09-05
IQSSP MIND lND WEALTH - Made Mad by the Loss
 of Fee. Millions in Mind But His Pock-
 cts Empty.
One of New York's AbIest Lawyers Loses Case, Fee of $5. .OoO,oO
 and His Reason.

New York Journal: A few weeks ago there was removed to Blooming dale asylum a we'll known lawyer. whose mind was unsettled because he had fixed it on a 5000, 900 fee and lost his case.
 In 1892 George w. Wilson ranked among the ablest practitioners at the New York bar. It was in November of that year that he undertook the case which has robbed fin Of reason and made him the inmate of a cell in the ward for incurables at Blooming dale-the famous Seaman will con test.
 The Seaman heirs, who were not in cluded in the will, determined in No vember, 1892, to fight more vigorously for the great fortune they declared should be theirs. So Gilbert Shute, as their representative, consulted MT. Wilson and placed the interests of the heirs in his hands.
 Twenty millions of dollars was the vast sum at stake. The heirs offered S, 100000 of this to MT Wilson if he won the case.
 From that day Lawyer Wilson was a different man. Gradually all other | business was abandoned by him, and he devoted his time to the contest for millions. A strange fact was that he never seemed to consider the proba- hility of defeat, and constantly planned what he would do with the five mil l lions.
 The most eminent lawyers were en- gagged by the benefciaries of the will 1 to represent them. Never was legal battle more desperately contested. Still Mir. Wilson saw only oCnens of victory Step by step the case ad- vanced to trial Link by link the chain of evidence of both sides was forged
 Threatening letters were received by
 Mir. Wilson. He was warned that he
 would be attacked personally. One day he was struck from behind with a sandbag. Nothing daunted him, how ever. He worked harder than ever be- fore and laughed at all suggestions of failure
 At last the suit came to trial in the state supreme court. Though dozen lawyers appeared for the defendants I MT. Wilson scoffed at the idea of as-
 sistance and fought the battle single
 handed. When the evidence was all in MT. Wilson left the court room with
 a smile on his face, but it was the last i time he ever smiled. Night after night he had planned and replanned
 as to what he would do with the vast fortune which he would receive, so that the next day when he returned to the court and learned that the other
 side had won, that the fortune he had reckoned upon had slipped from his grasp, he uttered a groan and fell to
 the ground
 He was driven in carriage to his
 home, where he raved about the s5.-
 900 for many weeks He was never
 the same man afterward. Silent and morose he brooded over his downfall until his mind gave way. Not until a few weeks seo WAS ii tound necessary to remove the lawyer to an insane asylum. After he had lost
 the case, but before he had become dangerously insane, Wilson romised
 the elevator boy of the building where he had his office that he would give
 him Sl00,000, and every day he arrived
 at his office he begged pardon because
 he was unable to fulfill hAs nrcr,,ires.
 The policeman On the beat near his residence was to get a bali million To Mayor Strong he offered a million 5 outright, but the mayor declined the offer.
 Whoever went to see Wilson at his oflce he promised fortunes. q am worth $5,0O0,0O0," was what he said
 but today he finds himself confined in
 padded cell in the Bloomingdale asy-
 lum destined to end his days behind the bars. Physicians say his disease is incurable. In appearance Mir Wilson is almost the counterpart of Daniel Webster. te 5 whom hA hear.c a ct,o r-t1 ;,,o, ,,o.,,,,h1',