The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-25
JENNIE HALL AGAIN
A Commission on Insanity Says She
Should Go 10 Warm Springs.
HER HOBBY IS AGED MEN
She Tells the Court That She Is
Not Crazy. but II Was Decided
to Allow Her to Be Prop
erly Cared For.
HER HOBBY IS AGED MEN

Jennie Hail. the erratic young woman
with a world of trouble, who imagines
that she was the special object of old
and hoary-headed men who ought 10
knew better. was examined again by a
commission on insanity in Judge Nc
Hatton's court yesterday afternoon ana
ordered committed to the asylum. Jen-
ME is a working woman about y years
old and is the mother of little girl
about years of age. She first came
into public notice about year ago,
when she wanted TO kill an old man
whom she accused of having wronged
her under promise of marriage. She be-
came so violent over her real or fancled
wrongs that she was examined as TO
her sanity, but she convinced the com
mission that she was not so crazy as
she looked and acted, and she was dis
charged, but she refused to disclose her
right name, and no one knows anything
of her relatives or antecedents. Recent
ly she broke out again and before the
whole community charged William
Shields. an old widower with having
done her an irreparable wrong, and she
demanded marriage as the only thing
that would satisfy her honor. She rails
ed a disturbance and scandal in shop
conducted by Shields, and he had TO
call on the police for protection. Jennie
was removed to the county jail. where
she has since been confined. Yesterday
a charge OF insanity was preferred
against her and Drs. Gum and john
ston summoned to examine her. DR..
McCrimmon was the first witness and
he told of some of the woman's vaga-
ries, and gave IL as his opinion that she
was slightly off mentally.
Old man Shields testified that Miss
Hall had been sent to his house by an
employment agent just before Christ
mas, and after she had been there two
or three weeks some one told him about
her past life He spoke to her about
what he had heard and IL seemed to
make her crazy. He had to lock her in
the house and then she jumped out OF
the kitchen window and in a very scant
attire went to the county jail. She
came back with a policeman to get the
money that was due her and her
clothes. After that she called at his
| shop and demanded his life or money
with which to get her out Of trouble,
| and she raised such a rumpus that a
1 policeman was called to take her away.
Afterwards, while in jail, she sent for
| the old man, and he visited her. She
invited him into her cell. and then she
/ shut the door and planted herself
against 1t and threatened his life. She
said she would make his children faith
| erless, as well as her own. He called
for assistance, and Under Sheriff Young
/ " Ills ltHNhf. Nobh ApiA
| about some of the woman's strange and
! peculiar doings. and Police officer An
! derson testified that he was called into
I Shields shop some weeks ago and
/ found the woman sitting there and
would not leave. so he took her To Jail
Shields frequently Clipped i'm while An
derson was testifying and wanted e
tell about accompanying Miss Hal
when she called for her clothes md
money, but Anderson said he was not
| that policeman and the woman he ac-
! companied was another woman alto
gether. Shields then admitted his mis-
take, and the examination then pro-
| ceeded.
The accused woman was then put
through course Of questions by Judge
| Mediation. Her answers were sane
| enough, and the only indication OF hel
insanity was the improbability OF hel
| story She held up her hand and SAID
she had lost all faith in mans promises
and that the only promises she now be
lieved was that held out to her in the
Holy Book. She then told long story
of her troubles. and said her aged EN-
ployer had tempted her with money
and repeatedly promised before God I,
stand by her If she needed friend
When she needed a friend most, HI
went back on her and refused to hell
her. She wanted money and he said HI
could get rid of her cheaper by havinl
her sent to Warm Springs. She sale
he was now trying to carry out hi
threat.
Judge Mediation asked her IL she di'
not have "A similar trouble with anothe
old man about a year ago. and she sat
she did and then related that old story
But she had forgiven that man now
and her only trouble was with oil
Shields. She said she was no more Graz
than any other person In the cour
room, but the doctors decided that sh
was too susceptible for a girl of he
age, and that. for her own protection
she should be sent To the asylum. an
she will be taken TO Warm Springs 10
day.