The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-24
Strange Hallucination OF q De-
mented Man.
MICHAEL GOGGAN'S MANIA
Two Unfortunate Men Examined by .
Commission and Ordered Sent to
the Asylum at Warm
Springs.

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afternoon and both were ordered COM
mitted to the asylum. The examining
physicians were MacNevin and McDon-
aid. Linton's insanity took Inc form OF
a belief that he YVES hoodooed, and that
a man witch" had turned him into an
old woman and had done other things
to him.
Goggan had trouble with a myster-
ious woman who had fallen deeply In
love with him. and some other myster-
ious person threw Element or blue
ointment on him to make MN smell
good. -,
County Commissioner Clark told
about Goggan coming INTO the commis-
sioners' rooms repeatedly and demand
ing remuneration for having been con-
fined in the county jail. . He had JUST
been released after serving six months
and he called on the commissioners TO
notify them that he would bring ut
against the county for false imprlson-
ment. He subsequently, told Janitor
Rooney that he was going TO get even
with the commissioners and the sherin
| and the Janitor notified the commission
| ers to look out for him. Goggan showed
up again soon after that and asked the
commissioners to arrest the sherin ana
| they concluded that 1t was time he was
taken care of and he was locked up In
the county jail.
County Physician Sheeran testified
that he first saw Goggan in jail about
three months ago. He complained TO
the doctor that some one was throwing
blue ointment at him and put III INTO ms
7 coffee and tobacco and IL bothered MN
so that he could not sleep. He also told
| the doctor that there was a girl IN
South Butte who was deeply I'm love
with him. He did not know the girl,
but thought hat IL was on her account
that the Element" was thrown on him.
He did not know who was H.
but he was trying to locate the person.
Mrs. Goggan aid that the first she
noticed that there was something wrong
with her husband was about six months
ago. when he began quarreling with her
without cause. She he'd him arrested
once and he spent 60 days in jail. When
he got out he began talking about nav
ing lots of money at the court mouse.
He tore up his clothes n she became
afraid of him. Mrs. Goggan said they
had been married 10 years'and had nine
children, five of whom are living Cog
gan also told his wife about the girl in
South Butte who was in love with him
and about being given blue ointment III
his tea and coffee.
Commissioner Matthews and Martin
Rooney told bout the actions of Cog
gan about the court house after his re-
lease from Jail.
Goggan was questioned by the doc
tors and he told them o some trou-
BILE he had at home for which he was
arrested ard when brought before the
police Judge he was told there was no
charge against him, but yet he was Ia
ken to the county jail and later taken
to South Butte by a deputy sheriff, VINO
made a complaint against him, n ne
was taken back to the county jail ana
was kept there for six months. That
was why he wanted to get money from
the county for false Imprisonment. He
wanted a policeman arrested for get
ting Mrs. Goggan to swear a false oath,
and he also wanted TO have a deputy
sheriff arrested for swearing to a COM
plant against him. Judge Lindsay ask
ed Goggan why he was under arrest
again and he said he was put I'm jail for
being crazy. but there Is nothing crazy
about me- he said. DIR. Mcdonald
questioned Goggan about the south
Butte woman, but he did not know
much about her. He had passed her on
the street half a dozen times, but paid
no attention to her. Once when he saw
her she said There he goes now and
he took another street and avoided her.
He said blue ointment had been used
on him in Jail to make him smell. but he
didn't know who put II on him He
could taste II in his tea and coffee. The
doctors thought the man was crazy
enough to entitle him to admission to
the asylum and he was ordered commit
ted. When Goggan was taken back To
jail he asked his wife to get him some
tobacco. He said he had some in his
sack, but there was ointment on 1t.
In the case of Robert Linton the
county physician testified that the man
was arrested on the 18th of the month
for insanity. He was laboring under
all kinds of illusions and decisions. He
irna uipaS that he WAS nnrsnpd DX a
witch who turned him into an old wo-
man and an old man and kept him
awake at nights. He said he served a
term in the state penitentiary for steal
ing a ham at Fort Benton. As soon as
he got out he came to Butte and com
plained to the thief Of police about the
witch and wanted to see IL something
could not be done about her. Linton
said he had been a soldier In India and
later was a sailor.
officer Barry and a man named Nc
Conhell testified about Linton's witch
and ghost Authorizations.
Linton told the doctors that he was
born in Liverpool A. years ago and CAM
to America in 1882. and had since FOL
lowed the occupation Of a sailor. HI
was at Santa Rosa. Cal. several years
ago and was ~"jobbed'' by a policeman
He landed in Butte on his way from
Seattle to the lakes. He blamed hi'
lodging house keeper for putting th'
movement into the witchcraft."
1T is not a witch" he said, but :
man who uses witchcraft. He takes ny
senses away from me. j don't know
him. but I think I could pick MIN on
II he is the same man / saw on tn
stage In Spokane. He wears dancing
clothes and is covered with spangles
He made me so mad that j tried to picl
him out in the dining room, but
couldn't see him then. He tried q
break my leg and came pretty near XIII
ing me several times"
Linton was also ordered sent to tn
asylum and both men will be taken q
Warm Springs to-day.