Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-09-04

the domination of the old negress In
the household. But 10 20 back to the
case OF Sarah Althea hin Terry. When
her husband was shot dead. she re-
turned to their home i'm Fresno. and
lived alone in a pretty cottage her hus-
band had furnished for her. Judge
Terry was man OF culture and taste.
and had wealth enough TO give his
wife almost anything she wished. But
the widow began to do eccentric things.
and one day she was missed from
Fresno. They broke into the cottage
and found wreck. Mrs, Terry had
been mad there alone for nobody knew
how long. He. handsome dresses, laces
and ribbons we're twisted around the
chandeliers. pictures were torn down
and bric-a-brac and household silver
hung aimlessly in grotesque places,
The walls were covered with crazy
writings. zigzags, spirals. The woman
had disappeared. She turned up In San
Francisco and wandered in the streets
with a bunch OF wire in her hand
through which she thought she was
tClCpi ouluS W nCt utetu hucbah0s ~
gcod many people began to get wor-
ried. Mrs. Terry had wrongs enough,
Heaven knows. Suppose she should
start in to square them. as crazy folks
sometimes do. with pistol or knife.
The police were asked to restrain her.
hut she had disappeared. The press
took up the search. But the demented
woman had vanished on the face of the
earth apparently.
Two weeks passed and then a clever
| young reporter called at the Bell house.
At first Nanny Pleasant denied all
| knowledge of Mrs. Terry's wherea-
/ bouts. but at last she confessed. For
! fourteen days she had watched over
| the poor raving maniac. Somehow she
found the Bell house. and Nanny
Pleasant took her in and kept her
| from the law. which sought to put her
| in an insane asylum.
There is plenty to be said to Nanny
/ Peasants discredit, but her care for
this wrecked woman stands out white
and clear. Nanny was true to her
from first to last. and she nursed her in
the Bell house as tenderly as a mother
would her child. and to this day. when
TIE once beautiful. accomplished wo-
man is a hopeless lunatic in one OF the
state insane asylums. forgotten By
everybody else. Nanny Pleasant still
keeps track of her.
A young law partner OF Judge Terry
was Porter Ashe, the turfman, him
| self figure in a sensational marriage
and more sensational divorce. When
the widow went crazy Porter Ashe was
made the guardian OF her estate. Nam
my Pleasant was his friend and hs
knew the inside OF the Bell house.
After a time Tom" Williams, a
young millionaire, who had been q
close friend of Judge Terry's, charged
that the estate had been wasted Ar
investigation followed. and little
enough OF the estate was found. Moth.
ing wrong could be discovered in
Ashes accounts, but he withdrew from
the Enthusiastically and Williams
became Mrs. Terry's guardian. Ashe
and Williams have been fierce enemies
ever since. They were both race horse
men. and in sense rivals. and the bit.
terness between them has often led
San Francisco to expect a tragic ending
to their misery. There are other stories
connected with the old place, tales oil
extraordinary orgies that made the bis
house Infamous twenty years ago
Nanny Pleasant knows them all. but
Nanny Pleasant does not tell.