The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-20
She HEARD THE VOICES
The Pitiful Condition of Chris
tiana Carlson.
WAS BASELY DESERTED
A Man Young Enough to Be Her Son
Promised to Marry. and Then
Got Her Money and
Left the State.

The frlenQs Oh Shk4SAtdAa SoAh
woman whose pitiful mental condition
resulted in her detention at the county
,ail since wednesday. made an EFFORT
Yesterday to have her released and ask
ed Judge Lindsay to order her dis
charge The woman is well thought OF
among her country people and several
volunteered to take care OF her and
sxnressed the fear that confinement in
iail or the asylum would cause her TO
yrox worse Her mental condition is
mainly due, according to her own
statements and those OF her physician
TO period of life. Judge Lindsay ques-
toned the unfortunate woman and then
} decided to let several physicians pass on
her case and she was returned to JAN.
Some of her friends stated yesterday
2 that her mental condition was at least
in part due to the fact mat a youhe
] man who might be her son, in so tsr ar
the differences of their ages are con-
cerned. had promised to marry ner'
g aud then borrowed several hundred DOL
. lars from her, after which he LETT the
. state and married another woman
I I'm answer to questions asked MISS
y Carlson said that when arrested she
5 was at the Montana Union depot walt
h inc for the train for Salt Lake. She ola
o MOI know that she was found In an Ice
l. house instead Of the depot. She told the
n Judge that she was not sick, neither was
/ she well. She said she heard voices par
'e ticularly the voice of her brother, VINO
n. lives In waukegan, Ill. He talks TO hef
he day and night.
In 'He was talking to me as l was SIT
n ting over there" she said. He told me
Of / should be killed and that j was tne
r worst person in the world ana shouiu
x go to hell. II he said so thousnu II II
was so. The voices told me that III l
ef had not done wrong in the BODY ulu
es wrong In the spirit. l did not think
ne had done anything wrong, put Wheh
Of they told me I did | gave in and agreed;
rs They said | did wrong in the spirit anu
had sent many people to nell anu = Sa s
s. them going over into hell They told ms
So. n was my turn now. The snare war
ready for me to crawl into
as You did not believe all the voices
told YOU. did you?' asked the Judge
r. Il did not at that time, but l hnaiis
believed them. ] prayed and the Spirits
a had mercy on me and then i was al
he right. They forgave me and said the!
at would spare me for a time.
Id You did not believe that the spirit
dl- had power to Kill your
aid II never heard that they did mat KIM
her q, vork hut a woman told me the.
could. / never thought that the
would" A.
lld Miss Carlson said she had visited tn
&C. old country and returned TO Butie aoou
ie- a year ago. since which time she ha
ties Iivsd mostly by herself and has had n
is employment. Prior TO that uine sh
by conducted a private boarding house an
me also acted as ho~usekeeper for dinerer
m families. She again told about ne
brothers voice.
ate He came to me one night ana said
its ia cauad him lie scolded and, oh, !
- ,,1 gkuorp aNN fnlly. He sara i
had been with me for a year. ! knew
- nv brother. because ! recognize
his voice. He called me Christie, an
robodv else ever called me by th'
naue Rut I could see no one ana
thought it was only my imaglnauo
vet / thought ] recognized MS voice. I
oat- came again and told me ! was in.
> of aid not know what he meant by Una
He wanted me to come down anu sa
he was working in the smelter. Ne
era- day he came back and started 10 IA
her, where he had left off the night before
I'm Ibid YOU ever do anything to )usl
7. your brother In talking 10 you IN
ar wavP" asked Judge Lindsay.
ago NO. always have been good 10 M
the and once | took care Of him at the nc
re- nital while he had typhoid fever,
few Don't you think II was oniy yo
on Imagination when you thought y
on heard his voice?' -
Their II have thought. but ] don't kno
There must be something wrong In :
the head. ] must be crazy nut ! VI"
'tart think so either
The woman looked pitiful as she e
ans about her delusion. DIR. 81. jean :"
I be had attended Miss Carlson, rave IL
ilcal his opinion that she would grow WOO
worm 40 -, On iail but that II taken out a
,von sopethIng else to occupy her mi
SUI that she would soon be all right aga
L ne