The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-09
FANNIE HILL IS. CRAZY
Sent to the Insane Asylum After
Being Examined.
QUEER THINGS SHE SAID
Charles Stevens Also Before a Com
mission on Insanity, but He Was
Discharged, as He Wasn't
So Far Gone.

DR.. II. j. Mcdonald, DIR. Louis Bern
helm and Judge Clancy yesterday after
noon investigated two insanity cases
and ordered one of the parties, Fannie
Hill, alias May McLain, committed to
the asylum, and discharged the other,
/ Charles Stevens. The Hill woman is
about as crazy as they get, and in spite
OF the sad nature OF the proceedings
there was considerable amusement dur
| ing the examination. Judge Clancy
| thought it the proper thing 10 read 10
her the complaint made against her by
| county Physician Sneeran, charging
ner with being mentally derangeu anu
unsaIe To be at large. After ne had
reaa 1t he asked ner what she had 10
| say about IL.
is there anything wrong with you;
are you menLaiiy deranged! he asked.
| Il don t know your nonor, she re-
/ piled. y gu are the judge, l. DelleNe,
ana / will leave it to you. All | know
ana see IS Nag, beggar and work; That
4 Is all 1 can see ana near.
This man Sneeran, said the court,
says you are crazy; IS that so?"
Inc woman oniy laughed IN answer
! ana Judge Clancy made another EFFORT
| to explain TO her the nature OF the pro-
ceedingS.
..1nese doctors will examine YOU" he
said and IL they find that you are
| mentally deranSeu lney viii send You
10 warm springs Where you VIII be
we'll treated, have warm water TO
drink ana will have nice time, and
tney Will Xix your mead
| Dr. Sneeran Was cailed to the witness
| stand ana teStLned that ali ne knew
| ABOUT the woman was that she talked
| looiiShly, ana he considered her decid-
| eddy aemented. The woman was next
questioned by the doctors, and she said
she was born in May, 1885, and had been
f1ArIa ma AfA
| IN the " est, and she said she had often
| wondered II her 1athef, mother broth
ers, SISTERS and son were stili living
FOR tour years, she said, she had led d
| sporting life.
Il never worked hard because
wasn't born that way she said. Then
she held up her hand anu TOOK an oatii
| 10 tell the truth, alter which she re-
| lated some incidents of her lite al
Butte.
~ mere have you lived during the
last 80 days" asked DR.. McDonaid.
| Don't YOU call me those nameSi' eX-
claimed the woman, and then turning
60 the court ADDED IF the court
please, | object to having any man call
ne vie names.
judge.
God bless you, judge. | allow no
! man To call me names.
Dr McDonaid wanted to find out if
the woman knew how long she had
been in Jail and asked her If she re-
membered where she ate her Christ
mas dlnner. rms struck her as very
| funny. and she laughed louo and long.
Where did | eat Christmas dinner?
| Why, bless you, l don't believe l had
any dinner"
The woman repeated that all she
| knew or ever heard was 'vag, beg, live
and work.
A female inmate of the jail testified
that Mrs. Hill was becoming danger
Gus, and the other inmates OF that de-
partment OF the jail We're becoming
afraid of her.
III you will excuse me for saying it,"
said the witness trying to blush. 1 be-
lieye that she would be ali right in her
mind if some man would marry her, as
her mind runs on that subject all the
time"
No one stepped forward with an Of
fer, and the demented woman was TAX
EN- back to jail and later in the after
noon was conveyed to Warm Springs.
Charles Stevens, the other person ex-
amined, acted like man who wished
to go to the asylum. The judge read
the complaint against him, and in an
thought of his own mental condition he
said he did not believe he was com
pletely insane, and didn't know whether
he ought to be sent to the asylum or
| not. oI1lceE 1edSue LeStll1ed lldI he
saw Stevens on the street acting
strangely, and he asked him what was
the matter. Stevens replied that he
was looking for d mind-reader. He
said he had lots of money in his mind
but none in his pockets. The officer
said he would assist him in finding Il
mind reader and took him to jail DR..
Sheeran said the mans only delusion
| Was on the subject of mind-reading,
and he always talked about people
reading his mind The doctor said the
| man WAS also melancholy, and he be-
/ lieved he should be sent to the asylum.
! The doctor said he had made no exam
ination of Stevens physical condition.
| Stevens himself was examined and
talked perfectly rational on all subjects
but that of mind reading, and he had
| very little to say about that except
that lie thought he could read minds if
he had proper instrument. He COM
planned of not feeling we'll and said
he had suffered from n private disease.
| The doctors wanted to recommend that
| Stevens be sent to the county hospital
for treatment, but Judge Clancy did not
| think they could do that. and they or
dered his discharge entirely