The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-17
is At HER OLD TRICKS
Mrs. Jane Fisher Is Now in Brit
ish Columbia.
Is HUNTING HER HUSBAND
Poured the Narrative OF Her Tale Of
Woe Into the Ears OF the SYM
pathetic Miners OF Rossland
and Greenwood.

Mrs. lane Fisher. the woman who for
several a gave the county officials
no end of trouble on account of her
differences with her husband and the
unbalanced condition Of her mind. has
turned up in British Columbia with her
brood of little children n is worry
ing the people of that country. She ar
rived at Rossland a few days ago from
Idaho in search of her husband. Rich
ard Fisher, who, she said. was fleeing
from her. she was destitute. or
claimed to be. N a collection was TAX
en- up for her among the people OF Ross
land and a big sun turned over to her.
She evidently found the miners there
good things, for she remained and kept
up her collections until the police in
terfered and stopped IT. She then
moved on, and the next heard of her
she turned up at Greenwood with her
five little children and told the sympa-
thetic miners there the story of her
will-o'-the-w isp husband. and another
collection was taken up for her.
Just about a year ago three of Mrs.
Fishers children We're found deserted
on the streets of Butte and were sent
to the o house and later transferred
TO the state Orphans home. on the
2sth of August of last year Mrs. Fisher
and two of her children were sent to
Mdllan. Igafo where she claimed she
had some relatives. and where, she had
learned. her husband was at work.
About six weeks later Mrs. Fisher re
turned to Butte. looking well and pros
porous. She said she had found her
husband and that she and another
woman were running a boarding house
and were maxim money She wanted
an order from Auditor Davies for the
release of her three children from the
State Orphans home, but he would
not give it to her. and she made a
trip to Twin Bridges and secured the
release OF the children. with whom she
returned to Mullan. According 10 the
stories which come from British CO.
lumbia her prosperous career In Null
Ian did not continue long. and that her
husband again gave her the shake.
About -four years ago Mrs. Fisher was
committed to the asylum at warm
Springs on complaint of her husband
About a year later, after she had been
released from the asylum, she COM
menced a suit for divorce in the dis
trict court and i'm her complaint al
Legged that she had been wrongfully
and falsely accused of being insane
and committed to the asylum. She re-
lated many Instances OF cruelty on the
mart of her husband and said that on
one occasion he had used their baby as
a veanon and struck her with II. she
said he then accused her of being in
sane and without informing her had
her tried and sent 10 the asylum. she
said she was Of sound mind
the hearing. but was kept in ignorance
of what was going on and was forci-
bly, taken to the asylum. She had a
sick child at home and that TACT
caused her great distres and worry.
She was kent at the asylum only 20
DAYS. and the doctors, so she said. old
her she should never have been sent
there. Her divorce suit never got be-
yond a hearing for alimony, and after
paying an allowance for a few months,
under orders of the court. Fisher made
up with his wife again and lived with
her until another child was born. and
then ne deserted her again. The suit
for divorce had in the meantime been
dismissed by her attorney. From that
time until she was sent TO Mullan she
made life miserable for all the county
officials. especially the auditor and
commissioners.