The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-21
Now Well Established He Is Not
Schlatter

The stranger who attempted suicide
on Tuesday night is still alive. 1t is
now well established that he is not
Schlatter, though he is a good counter
part of the healer. The mans name
is F. A. Abbott, and he is as crazy as
he is deaf. He believes himself a great
healer and saws his powers are lar
greater than those of Schlatter.
Yesterday morning he was attended
by DR.. Coulter, with whom he con-
versed some, though questions had to
be written out for himabecause of lis
deafness. He said to the doctor that
he made the attempt on his life be-
cause he was crazy and that every
once in a while he gets that way. For
time he talked Quite nationally. He
said he was a carpenter by trade, but
of late had been working on ranch.
He was removed to the county hospital
yesterday. AS the day wore on he
became delirious and several times he
tried to leave the building. He is very
weak from loss of blood, but NAV
survive. His baggage has been found.
It consisted mostly of a trunk filed
with manuscript of an incoherent ma
ture- The manuscript is devoted to
dissertations going to prove that Alb
bolt is a wonderful healer, and the
personal representative of the great
Jehovah. He gets his power, he says,
from the mysterious influence of the
lone star tree in Texas, which tree is
several thousand miles in circumfer
ence.
A closer examination of the baggage
establishes the fact that the mysterious
mans name is not Abbott, but George
Q. Davis. Letters show that he has
5000 on deposit at the Canadian Valley
bank at Canadian, Tex, and was mar
ried July 10 last. He has u brother at
LIE Force, Tex. The bank declined to
send him the money until the brother
at LIE Force identified his signature.
The manuscript of a religious book
was found in box in the trunk. There
are 1,500 pages of closely written note
paper in the book The opening para
graph will show the style:
"On the Sd day of the 4th month of
the Sd year of the 4th world being at
Fort Sill, Indian nation, in the United
States which is in North America,
which is the northwest quarter of the
east l climbed a great tree the trunk of
which was 100000 miles in diameter
and the height thereof was unpeasure-
able and measureless and the branches
thereon; the circumference being with
out existence. Being thus seated where
l could see the contents of heaven and
hell and all the earth above it and
beneath it"
The author then proceeds to review
the world and classify all things
therein.
There are but two forces in the
earth. gold and dog electricity and
lightning, good and evil"
Among the latter passages of the
are:
L am the judge of the world. I shall
judge the living and the dead. I am
the deaf one spoken of by the Prophet
Isaiah who should come in the last
days"
The book has directions to the pub
Usher interlined, telling him in certain
places to make the letters blood red
and the paper olive green. The name
F. o. Abbott was written in bible
in his possession, but it is quite certain
that George O. Davis is his true name.
About 1890 Davis became delirious.
broke lose and ran amuck in the court
house. He was locked in one of the
east rooms in the hospital part of the
building. He got up, kicked the door
in, went down to the west side of the
building, jumped out and made for the
street. The night Waterman recaptured
him and aroused the steward. and he
was put in the corridor, outside the
steel cells. As soon as he was released, /
he plunged headlong to the nearest |
window. smashing the glass. but the
bars prevented his escape there. He
then tried another window with the
same result. Again he was over /
powered and this time locked in a steel !
cage, when he quoted down.