Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-01-22


asked me.
"The townspeople were extremely
fond of him, and he had been so gen.
erous in his charities that he was
looked upon as n public beuefactor.
To have told them that George was a
lunatic, however mild, would have re-
suited in my being thought one, and
during the afternoon Of my arrival /
kept my own counsel and telegraphed
at once for the physician and attend
ant. No train was due until next
morning, and all could do was to
wait and keep quiet. There was no
trouble with George until Just after
we had taken our supper at the little
hotel where lie stopped, and had gone
to his room. There is something i
said must have indicated to him in
some way that l had some design
against his liberty, or something, 1
don't know what, and be began 10 act
queerly aud show that he was suspi-
cious Of me.
81 had been under such a dreadful
strain for so long that was completely
unnerved, and now that had found
him felt myself relaxing and verg-
ing upon Mysteries. l tried 30 con-
troll myself aud get him to thinking
about something else, but suddenly
and without any warning, he caught
me and began to choke me. OF
course, screamed, and screamed with
all my might, and in a minute or two
people came rushing to the room, in
quiring what was the matter. As they
came in George held me strug Cling in
his arms, but he was cooler than any
one in the party, and was talking to
me like a mother to fretful or fright
ened child, aud doing all he could to
sonthe me. But by this time was so
wrought up that could not keep still,
and when George very quietly told
them that 1 WAS demsnted, and be-
came extremely violent at times, last
ing for months, they believed him and
asked what could be done.
''He asked that a physician and q
policeman be sent for, and messen :
ger went flying, and s)on came back
with them. They held council over
me, aud upon Georges suggestion
that | be put in a safe place for the
night, was taken to the woman's
cell in the town prison aud locked up
in charge Of a woman nurse, who had
volunteered her services, as she had
had experience with lunatics. Wasn't
that perfectly awful? /, sane woman,
TO be locked up on charge of lunacy,
brought 10y lunatic?'
The major was anxious to say that
he had never heard OF such an out
rage perpetrated in civilized land,
but the widow ran over him and went
on.
"Well, it was awful, and the more
| tried to convince the woman that it
wasimy husband who was crazy, the
more she shook her head kindly and
told me she knew it, and that was
put in their only to protect me from
him. That made me worse, and !
would go off into Mysteries again, aud
! never slept wink all night. When
morning came l was more nearly a
State and 'us5han. the real lunatic
- andzis9a, 2fa,lract Of land, neaA, 500
$ raving maniScs aniSs'ea IN the Fourth Elseii
h was. and when George came u
me, his emotions were painfpl r. 4,
y and he cried like bahy e'4s "a hean
" nurse all the - n1;ss.. ss.s.., and ] would
J. him up by r. 5slsss. ss;. The tit
y NJ. ~, ,.ss.s.Jok his head sadly and went
= 10y to return in an hour with the
physician. They talked over me as if
| could not understand anything they
were saying, aud on Georges earnest
recommendation the physician agreed
that the best thing to be done was to
commit me to an asylum until it was
thought safe to release me. There
was private asylum not far away, and
it was decided to take me there at
once. 1t was now 8 o'clock, and
Georges physician and attendant
would not reach the town until 10, by
which time l would he on my way to
the asylum, if not on my way to per-
manent lnnacy, for the strnin was then
all | could bear. told the physician
to wait, and tried to explain to him
the situation, and all he did was to
say he understood perfectly, and
that we were only going for drive
iuto the country to visit some of
Georges friends who we're anxious to
entertain US for few days. All this
time the nurse was getting me ready
for my trip, and l was doing all I
could to gain delay of an hour until
the train should come, and ! prayed
that it would not be late.
despite all efforts TO the eontrar ,
the nurse reported me ready for the
carriage which was in waiting at the
prison door, and they picked me up
and carried me ont to it. There was
quite crowd around the place I'LL
curious, Of conrse, and it had good
effect upon me, for instead OF Great
ing Soy Disturbance, I submitted