The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-05
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is NOW IN AN ASYLUM.

is NOW IN AN ASYLUM.
Lived In a Wagon Filled With Lacings
| of Wires-Represented the Air Line
Telephone Company-Stock Attrac-
ton Of Georgetown Gone From it's
Limits.
rocky section of country, not great in
extent but comprising within it's linn
it's the villages of Wilton, Georgetown
and Cannons Station, unheard of for
many years except thy the few who
had occasion to visit them on business
or for the pleasure of climbing the sto-
ny hills, has recently popped into noto-
riety through a series of crimes and
sensational happenings. Not that
there was ever a dearth Of interesting
occurrences, but the public gaze has
never been drawn to the section until
recently. The murder of David S. r.
Lambert, and the fruitless search for
the guilty parties sent thrill of hor-
ror all over the state. Since that time
several occurrences have indicated
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material going to waste in the wilds Of
this unnoticed section.
The good people of Georgetown lost
one of the stock attractions of the vi
entity when Wilbur Jennings was sent
to the insane asylum at Nfiddletown
last week. Jennings furnished no end
of material for gossip through his &C.
centricities. and although plainly de-
mented, his unusual positions embod-
lied so many possibilities that they aft
forded much amusement. Jennings
lived in wagon which he had ftted
up as residence and seemed to se
perfectly happy. He had no means Of
support and lived through the charity
of his friends and relatives. Jennings
is well connected and could have had
a good home if he would accept it from
them. He was one of the characters
of the town and his novel residence
was filled with surprising equipments.
Two years ago he lived in a little hut
land avoided the rest of mankind. He
Twas deep in lot of theories which
had developed in his unbalanced brain.
One of these was the belief that he was
the owner of rich gold mine in the
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five dollars in mining shares made
many years previously. He conceived
the idea that he must visit the mine
and develop it. He confidentially told
the few friends whom he would allow
to visit him that he was worth seven
Icentrillions and all that was necessary
was to go out to his mine and take it
away. He spent months in fitting up
a wagon which would serve as resi-
dence as we'll as vehicle. He obtained
by dint of hard work and careful saw
ing pair of decrepit horses Bidding
farewell to the town of his birth, where
he had lived for over fifty years, he
hooked up his team and started for the
west. He managed to get twenty
miles from Georgetown before one of
his horses gave out and he was Obliged
to return. He then gave the other
horse away and located his wagon next
to a blacksmith shop and close to the
stream which runs through the town.
While he still chung to the centrillions,
of which he was sure, he went into
electricity and obtained the agency for
the ''Air Line Telephone Co.," cor
poration of worldwide influence and
able in the light Of the recent discover
les and inventions of electrical wiz
ards. He imagined that he could COM
municate with representatives of the
company in every spot on earth or in
the armament, excepting heaven and
hell. The air line telephone needed nc
wires. but used the air as transmit
ting medium. Only a short time age
he was asked to communicate with the
Klondike and ascertain the conditions
of affairs there. He readily complied
and walking to the corner of his wagon
called up the Klondike He said:
Hello Klondike: want the represen-
tative of the Air Line Telephone COM
pany there" After an imaginary con-
versation of few minutes duration
he gravely informed his auestioner
that twelve men had just been frozen
to death there in a snow bank"
His perambulating home was filled
with a complex lacfng of wires which
were connected with the brook and
which he said furnished him the cleo
tricity upon which he lived, and III
fact he got so little of the rations ui
ordinary mankind, that there was
some excuse for the belief that he lived
ON something besides what he ate.
Years ago Jennings was an expert
weaver in the wire mills at George.
town. He made good pay and got
along nicely. His first mania was
brewing, and he conducted expert.
ments in making hop beer until one
of his product blew UP one day and
knocked him silly. Since that he has
not done any regular work and ris &C.
centricities have got the better of him,
He was christened Brewer at this tims
and the name has never left him.
His strange home is still at the ole
spot and the village boys avoid It as
they pass up and down the road, fear.
ing that some of the strange beings
: with whom the hermit used 70 taxi
: may drop down and capture them.
GENEALOGY.
Mr. Charles B. Whittelsey of this