The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-13
DOWN ON ENGLAND
PLANS OF AN INSANE MAN FOR
STOPPING JOHN BULLS GREED.


He Wants England Fenced in With Barbed
Wire and no lnhabitant Allowed TO rs
cape-Hetis willing That They be Al
Ioxxed to Look Through the Fence, but
MI, at be shot II They Attempt to Crawl
DIV, u-Au Debts. Mortgages and Land
Rel, xaeiuc TO England Must be Taken
and ;fven to the Soldiers of His Army
1osanb UP. Benson Of Lincoln town
saip was tried yesterday in the PROBATE
court for insanity, and a number Oh
witnesses twere called TO testify as 10
the mans strange malady.
Every wi kness had the kindest WORDS
to say Of T. ne man as neighoor- ne
mas honest temperate, obAglnS ana
lid hut tn sy all believed that he was
~ an unsoul I'd mind, and was growing
E.eadily wors e. The description Oh the
mans action, and theories were aIter
sbe natern ar ID ideas as set forth by
1qnatius Dom ,elly in his book called
the Golden 30 title,
v5cBted the rails ing Of an army OF wnlch
= : u,ould he q captain and then fenc-
inc in England with a barbed wire
f.1cs and then employment should De
Given Tn all thos e unemployed 10 Watcn
.ba Ensyishmen and keep them INSIDE
~ the pen thus built, and he wanted q
low nassed ALLOW ring the Englshmen 70
cot I'M on the fe nee and look over put
e anv man attic mpted 10 throw his leg
o,,er the t1p wir he was 10 be shot I'M
rediately- III, ia
ua said that something terrible had
90 he done WIFI the English, who, ne
declared. had sold themselves TO the
5aviI and werer'ki is agents. de wanted
OH the debts due England cancelled
and all the land confiscated and given
~ the Americans who had no land ana
were willing TO fight that America
might be free .,z
Enqlisbrer1 in this country who did
,o4 agree with this doctrine he wanted
,beno IN have a chance for their white
alley" and if they continued to growl
n show more love for England than
America he wanted them TO be drown
Ell.
He wanted the farmers all to agree
meyer 10 sell anything in Wichita or
anv town for the space OF hVeyearS
ard let the people in town find out that
they were dependent upon the farmers
and not the farmers upon them.
He wanted all churches stopped ana
Err farmers to become completely d.
vo-cad from the towns and make the
Dreachers go to work like anybody else
lie said they were a useless luxury
forced upon the people, and that this
country was cursed with lawyers and
preachers.
He had been working for long time
OF a patent which he calls 'Christs
Patent" and says that when it is COM
Melted Il will do away with horse and
cars. His patent, which he is receiving
from God, is on the principle of clock
and when it is wound UP and put on a
now or a wagon it will run until it runs
tiown.
Mortgages and debts must all be can
celIed and things must begin anew. The
signs of the times, he says, show that
we have only entered upon inventions,
and that If the people will get rid of the
English and the Jews that God will
open I'D 10 them a new light. Jews
killed Christ and they are killing this
nation. His creed is, no English ex-
cept in pen, and no Jews upon the
face Of the earth.
The jury held that the man was in
iced Of medical attention and recon-
n,ended that he be sent to the asylum
Cor treatment In conversation on
sumo subjects he is as bright as silver
dollar, but anything leading upon wars.
finance or government he is perfectly
Wild.