The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
.BANSHEE BOTHERS HIM |
It and Other Spooks Drive Jake
Barnoosky to Warm Springs.
SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM
Austrian Farmsr Possessing an Assert.
ment OF Hallucinations Gives the Off,
GERS Considerable Trouble-Broke
Away From Them Once.

An AustrianiZed Irish banshee has
been calling on Jake Barnoosky, who
resides at 110S East Sixth street, OF
late. These visitations, together with
glimpses he has had Of fairies and
spooks of various kinds, caused him
to be sent to the insane asylum at
Warm Springs yesterday to be treated
for insanity.
Ever since July Barnoosky has been
acting in peculiar manner. He told
the lunacy commission yesterday that
it was in July he first began to re-
ceive calls from the banshee, and that
the uncanny people he had seen had
convinced him he was likely to die.
Added to his worries about the vista
tons was well developed suspicion
he had his neighbors We're of mind
to do him bodily harm.
Barnoosky made things entertain
ing for the officers. On the complaint
of John Malingo, a neighbor, war
rant was issued yesterday morning for
Barnoosky'S arrest on the charge OF
insanity. Deputy Sheriffs Walsh and
Stevens made the arrest and found
violent and eXpostulating prisoner on
their hands. Finally they persuaded
MN TO go 10 jail quietly.
When it came time for the hearing
in the clerk of the courts Office, Dep
uty Stevens went in the Jail after
Barnoosky He left the outer door
open, opened the cage, took Barnoos-
ky out and turned to lock the cage
door. Barnoosky edged toward the
main door.
Here, hold on" said Stevens.
ooh, no." said Barnoosky, yanked
the door open and fed down the cor
rider at 10-second gait. Stevens
yelled to stop him. Under Sheriff Nor
gan, in the Jail office, heard the yell
and started for the door. Barnoosky
by mistake turned toward the right
instead OF to the left where are the
steps leading to the street. His turn
landed him in the arms OF the under
sheriff in the jail Office.
Morgan tackled low and downed his
man. Stevens appeared and together
they manacled the prisoner who gave
up the fight without further resist
ance.
Barnoosky is an Austrian. 40 years
of age, and lives with his wife and
seven children in his own little home
on East Sixth street. but much of fN
time is spent on his little ranch in
French gulch. His brother. William.
lives on the ranch. 1t is believed the
lonely life Barnoosky has led on the
farm has produced an acute melan-
chOlia.
He is nervous and excitabe man,
and as he sat handcuffed in the clerks
office during the trial he was con-
stantly shifting about and gesticulat-
ing. He speaks fairly good English.
but does so with such rapidity it is
difficult to understand him. During
the trial he insisted upon carrying on
side conversations with the members
1f ,fcci I'm n
he insisted DO look crazy?" and he
would laugh quite sanely and with
good nature Now and then he would
joke with the court but keep quiet he
would not.
When his Wife, heavy featured
woman, typically Eastern European,
took the stand and gave her testimony
through George Barich. who acted as
interpreter, Barnoosky snorted in dis
gust that her testimony should be
taken.
"Why, dat woman, she know noting.
She not have SO much sense as tree
sucking calves She got no sense at
ALL" and he laughed again, pointing to
her after the manner of Touchstone
introducing his Audrey.
Mrs. Barnoosky wept copiously as
Drs. English and Evans and Chairman
Walker of the board of county com
| missioners interrogated her. She told
of her husbands Authorizations, of his
fearing the devil was after him ana
of his claiming to have seen beckon-
ing spook who closely resembled the
banshee. Mrs. Barnoosky said he had
been going on this way for some time.
| Until the last two or three days she
+, had not feared he would do her any
| harm, but she had feared he would
| injure himself For this reason she
| had had John Malingo, a neighbor.
| spend two nights in the house and had
| had him watch the place.
Malingo corroborated this testimony,
Barnoosky keeping up a running in
| dignant and skeptical comment the
while, it being necessary to watch
him. Barnoosky said he needed no
Waterman at his house and intimated
Malingo's visits We're not purely dis
interested, looking Significantly at Mrs.
Barnoosky, who Wept more coplosuly
than ever.
All this served to embarrass Malingo
not a little. He said he had spent two
nights in the house at Mrs. Barnoosky's
| request. Barnoosky. he testified. had
told him to go, but Mrs Barnoosky
had insisted upon his staying. Bar
| noosky then had seated himself in a
| chair to watch him (the witness), and
| each night the two had remained in
| their chairs, their eyes on the other
t when not doing, until morning.
Then I'm afraid Of him and I not
go in the house no more" said Ma
| lingo. II stay outside the house and
! watch. He come out and tell me TO
| go away. but I say, Oats all right,
1 not bother you very much
When Barnoosky was told he might
tell his story he turned loose in fash
ion that was far too speedy for any
one to keep up with. Questioned as to
the spooks he had seen. he told of one.
She said he. rs it a woman
ghost?' asked DR.. Evans. who con-
| Quoted this portion of the examination
with the thoroughness Of an expert on
ghosts.
Yes" said Barnoosky, IAN old wo-
| man. She came to my house and l
see her. She stand and point me TO
come. Now. l know about her. Any
man he go when she point to come.
he die. She kill him: may be she kill
him anyhow" He went into some fur
Their details of this spook's habits that
We're unintelligible. Austrians in the
| court identified the spook as the ban
| SheA of Austrian SlDerStitIOQ.