The herald., 1898-05-06
MRS. T. BUSfR IS SANE
ONE OF A FAMILY THAT ALL
HAVE TEMPERs
SHE HATED BusER's BOOKING
And Other Family Troubles Caused
Her to Feel Bad but She Had
No Wheels

Mrs. Emily Buser, German lady of
Vermont avenue, University, was exam
ined yesterday for insanity by Drs. H. @.
Brainerd and e. r. Smith before Judge
Clark and ordered discharged. She had
been taken to the county hospital couple
Of days ago on the complaint of one of her
sons, Oscar, who swore that she had at
tempted suicide several times, that she
was noisy and violent and talked inco-
herently.
IN account of the fact that Mrs. Buser
lad, on the morning Of her arrest, caused
that of her husband on the charge OF
threatening to kill her and for various
other reasons, the case was watched by
the district attorneys office In the person
of Mr.. James. Mrs. Emily Buser Is an
Intelligent and well educated lady, 81 years
of age, and a native of Switzerland, who,
under the trying circumstances, showed
more self-possession and breeding than
some of the witnesses called to encompass
her commitment to the asylum. She had
an excusable desire to tell her family af-
fairs to the medical examiners which very
readily gave them an insight into the
troubles of the Busers, but she proved
herself so much more intelligent than her
husband in giving business details that
Judge Clark in disgust, told Buser to
keep his mouth shut and let his wife do the
talking.
The son, Oscar, a young man who works
out on a farm, tortured a number Of un-
important circumstances into lame at
tempt to prove that his mother was de-
ranged. He had some hearsay evidence of
her having attempted long ago to drown
herself In the ocean and of having taken
an overdose of morphia, which was posi-
lively denied to his face by his mother,
who accused him of rough conduct toward
her. AS to proof of her insanity he had
none to offer that amounted to anything.
He said that she had been growing quar-
relsome during the last two years, which
If what Mrs. Buser says she had to put up
with from a drunken husband, is true,
should not be wondered at.
Mr.. Buser cheerfully admitted that he
occasionally looked upon the dago red
when 1t was in the demijohn and that he
had spats with his wife nearly every time
they met face to face. He wouldn't say
whether she was insane or not, as he
didn't believe himself to be competent
Judge on wheels in the head. He wasn't
half as well posted when Judge Clark
asked him about the Buser business affairs
as was his wife who had all details at her
fingers ends.
1t was apparent that all the troubles are
occasioned by disputes over the real es-
tate and the personal property of the
couple, some Of the five children siding
with the mother and some with the father.
Each of the old people has five acres at
University, but the cows, horses and farm
ing implements are joint property. Mrs.
Buser has grown to dislike her husbands S
rough ways and his drinking habits and
she now wants divorce, a complaint hav-
ing been filed a week ago.
An elder son of Mrs. Buser told the
court that all his mother was troubled
with was quick temper. but he made moth
Ing out of that as all the other Busers, he
added with smile, were similarly afflicted.
It was self evident that the doctors had
been examining the wrong party that time
and Mrs. Emily Buser was permitted to
leave the court house with the older son
and his wife, with whom she will hereafter
reside.