The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-15
ANAC NE WIS.
POOR JENNIE SHIELDS
DRANK TOO MUCH LIQUOR
Accumulation Decides That the womau's
Mental Condition L. Not Such -
Would Warrant Her Committal
: the Insane Asylum.

Poor. unfortunate Jennie Hall. or
Jane Shields. once more told Of her
troubles and trials to Judge Brantly
and Drs. Rockefeller and Evans In the
district court room yesterday afternoon.
when the woman was brought up for
the purpose of inquiring into her san
ity. At the conclusion Of the inquiry.
the commission decided that she was
not a fit subject for h insane asylum
n she was ordered discharged from
custody.
A. c. Glover, a hotel keeper at Avon.
was the first witness. He said that
about two months g he had written
to Helena to an employment agency
n the agent had sent Mrs. Shields to
him.. He had observed some peculiar
traits in her character when she first
came. but had not paid any particular
attention to her. Her work had been
done n a satisfactory manner. 1t had
been reported to him by a lady boarder
that on one occasion Mrs. Shields be-
came violent in the kitchen and had
fiourished q butcher knife.
The woman however, had performed
9Th of the present month, when the bar
tender told him that she was drunk.
He went to see about II and found her
in an intoxicated condition. Mr.. Glo-
ver's wife and another lady, a Mrs.
Allen, wife of the station agent at
Avon. took h woman up to her room
and put her to bed. The next morning
Mr.. Glover awakened her and. thinking
that she would probably be in IN nit
state to get the breakfast, asked her IL
there was anything that he could do
for her. She replied that there was
not. and she got up and got breakfast
as usual.
Two days later Mr.. Glover's wife dis
covered the fact that one Of Mr.. Clio
ver's daughters had found a bottle Of
whiskey in Mrs. Shields room and had
taken 1t from her.
On h evening Of Saturday. after
supper had been served. some young
men informed him that Mrs. Shields had
tried to crawl under a freight train
standing in the Avon railroad yards.
She was brought to the hotel and was
put to bed, but the women who attend
ed her could not keep her quiet. h
refused to go to sleep, but kept asking
offered some liquor in a glass, but she
did not want Ii then. She insisted on
going out in the streets, and said that
she could get as drunk as she pleased
and could lie down in m mud IL she
pleased. She made so much noise M
Glover finally found it necessary to
have her removed to the postoffice
building adjoining the hotel.
In order to do this he called upon the
justice of the peace, n an officer was
sent to remove her from the place. She
fought the officer off with all her
strength and rel at him ~furiously.
That occurred in her room. She was
taken into the hall and a pair of hand
cuffs put upo her wrists, and she
again attacked the officer, this time
apparently with the idea of getting
away. She eat the officer over the
head and shoulders with the irons, but
she was finally taken to the postoffice,
where two officers kept watch over her
all night.
In answer to questions, Mr.. Glover
testified that when Mrs. Shields took
her spells. she would talk ravingly and
incoherently about a child that she had
lost and also about the A. o.. U. w. or
ganization, which institution, 1t APP
peared from her rambling talk, had
injured her in some way. Upon several
occasions 1t had been reported to him
that while in the kitchen Mrs. Shields
had grabbed up a butcher knife and
said tina IL she only a the nerve she
would kill herself.
In speaking of the quantity of whis-
key which the unfortunate woman had
drunk, Mr.. Glover sale that his bar
tenueT udu Sldtcu W I'LL tHdt BIC Hdu
had two half-pint bottles filled; that
the second time she came for liquor she
seemed to be in an Intoxicated condi-
tion, and Mr.. Glover instructed the
bartender not to give her any more
whiskey. Mr.. Glover said the second
bottle of whiskey had not been touched
until Thursday, when the woman had
taken one or two drinks out of 1t. On
Friday evening she wanted some more,
but none was given her.
During her stay at Avon she had in
formed Mr.. Glover that she had once
been sent to the asylum at Warm
Springs. He did not know anything
about her antecedents or her relatives.
When she became violent she mad used
language unfit for publication. She had
$2S.45 coming to her for her work at the
hotel.
In answer to a question from DIR.
Rockefeller, Mr.. Glover a that 1t was
about Is hours from the time Mrs
Shields had drunk her last drink until
she had the tussle with the officer.
NJ. d. Misery of Avon was then
about six weeks. On the night before
she was brought to Anaconda. while on
his way to the depot, he nae heard a
woman's voice under some freight cars
standing on a side track in the railroad
yards. He went to the cars and found
Mrs. Shields underneath. She vas
praying to God that the train would
start up. He reached under the cars
and caught her by the foot and dragged
her out. She cursed him fercely and
emphatically told him to leave her
alone. She was in a STOPPING position
when he found her. He told her she