The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-14
LY DRESSED WOMAN SELLING
NEWSPAPERS
NO LONGER SEEN IN ST. PAUL.
HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO THE
HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE
VI AT1ROCHESTER.
GRAPHIC SKETCH of THE WOMAN
Possessed Considerable Ability and
Based Her Faith on the United
States Constitution.

pedestrians hurrying home from bus
mess In the chill winter evenings will
nc longer see the figure of a thin, poor
~ dressed woman on the street cor
ners offering for sale the daily papers
for Mrs. Lydia B. Angler, the woman
WHO has eked out living for the past
SIX months as a news vender was yes
terday committed to the Rochester
asylum for the insane. The case of the
aged woman presents pathetic aspect,
and, while two physicians certify to
her mental disability, she is, from let
tiers introduced in the probate court,
evidently something of an intellectual
genius.
The woman,s son died about tive
years ago and since that time she has
been IN sense charge upon the city.
she formerly conducted a small news
stand at No. 1856 Marion street, which
SIZE lost on. a mortgage foreclosure and
then she began selling papers on the
streets Her age and forlorn aspect
mace her an object Of pity to passers-
ny and she generally disposed Of her
STOCK, though unable to realize suf-
hclent funds to keep her comfortable
the corner of Dale and Topping streets.
where she has lived in direct want. She
has frequently applied to Secretary
iutchins, of the Relief society," for aid
ana also to Secretary Jackson, of the
associated Charities, through whose
agency she was taken before the pro-
bate court.
Wnen arraigned before Judge Will
,sAL.
r:ch, Mrs. Angler was not aware that
the probable outcome of the proceed
!hgs would be- her commitment to the
lnsance asylum, and when it was so
decided she completely broke down
and begged the court not to send her
away. Among the Woman's possess
slons Is an old horse, which she has
managed to keep despite her adver-
sites, and when she was led away by
deputy sheriff she begged the court
to see that the animal did not suffer
from hunger. In telling her story to
the court the woman said her dead son
had appeared to her in a dream in the
center of three golden horse shoes and
had hidden her to take up her abode
in the little house on Topping and Dale
street, and that she could not disre-
gard the Visional mandate. Her boy,
she said, often appeared to her in
dreams and advised her as to the ways
OF life Her only creed, the woman de-
clared, was the Constitution Of the
United States and by that document
she conducted her life.
[ In several letters which Mrs Angler
had written to different persons, she
displayed no small intellectual ability
both as to her construction Of the Eng
lish language and to the subjects which
she discussed. Organization, said one
of the letters, bred corruption and then
it went on to discuss political policy in
general, concluding with an arraign-
ment of the organized charitable insti-
tutions from which she had sought as
sistanee. Before being taken from the
court room the old lady asked to be al
lowed to make a statement and then
proceeded to administer rich, brown
roast to Secretary Hutchins. She said
he had sent her food, but that she had
fed the meal given her to her horse and
that she had sold some bacon on &C
count Of its poor quality. Mr. Hutch
ms had on one occasion, she said,
sent her three dozen eggs and every
one Of the thirty-six were spoiled. The
woman claims to be descended from the
early settlers Of the United States and
traces her ancestry back to the Of
hcers Of Washington's army.