Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-06
His DeluSion a Rather Happy
One to Possess.
TO PAY MONEY
Causes the Court 10 Take Action
Against William McGill-
Other Court Notes.

The mental condition of Patrick Ma
loney was made the subject OF an lnVes-
tigatlOn before a commission consisting
of Drs. Mcdonald and Turner IN Judge
Lindsay's chambers today, and 1t re-
suited in the issuance OF an order com-
hitting the patient to the asylum. Ma
loney is the man who a few days ago
was found acting strangely while dis
charging his duty as a Waterman at the
lumber yards of the Big Blackfoot Lum-
Der company and taken into custody.
While seated in the judges apartments
awaiting the commencement of the pro-
ceedings he gave vent to several ex-
CARNATIONS which left no doubt that his
brain was disordered. He claimed to
own the building and its prisoners, and
scoffed at the idea Of the right OF any
court to try him. His wife sat beside
him. She has been married to him oniy
about a year, and a child now seven
weeks old, has been born to her.
Just after DR.. Sheerln had been sworn
by the clerk, Maloney said:
What authority nave you to swear
anyone? You are after committing a
crime; the whole of you"
DR.. Sheerin stated that in 1898 Maloney
had been ar inmate OF the asylum at
Warm Springs and had renamed until
1897. He had then been sent from Deer
Lodge county. Maloney's delus'on was
one Of grandeur. His present attack first
manifested itself two weeks ago.. The
physician did not consider Maloney safe
to be at large.
Mrs. Maloney said her husband had
conducted himself all right until about
two weeks ago. when he became cranky.
Che hod po iHoo ho wac insane Eo mis-
construed her language in many in
stances, and would not chop the wood,
something he had always done before.
WAS his appetite good?" asked the
judge.
Eyes, it was good"
"And 1 could eat more than I get Town
in this Jail, too" interrupted Maloney.
Mrs. Maloney further said her husband
was extremely nervous ut the time their
baby was born. He did not sleep well
and seemed to grow worse from that
date.
Fred Bruhu said he knew Maloney and
on n occasion when they talked to-
gether Maloney had considered himself
a king and the witness one of his sub
jects.
Edward Foley. the policeman h made
the arrest, testified that when he told
Maloney to accompany him to the county
Jail the latter told him he had neither
stolen anything nor murdered any n
He ordered the officer and others out of
the lumber Office.
Maloney was questioned by DR.. Nc
Donald. He said he had been born in
Ireland about 40 years ago and had come
to this country in 1874. In 1879 he had
crossed the Missouri river and worked az
a teamster at Forts Keogh and Lincoln.
Asked if he had ~ot been in the asylum
before, he said he had boarded at the
hotel there: that George w. Irwin had
given him s14 with which to pay his way
and he had gone there without the as
slstance of any one. One day something
happened he did not like and he paid his
bill and left.
would you like to go back there
again?' asked DIR. Mcdonald. -
NO: there is unnecessary suffering
there?"
D you know you are sick?"
D you know I'm sick?'
you Took pale" said the doctor.
well, I've been down in Jail. I'm a
vet"
what do you mean by 'vet'?"
well, If you are an educated man, you
know what vet is. I'm a vet, and a
good one, too. l came from Ireland to
serve my country
'HaVe you any idea for what reason
you were brought to jail?'
1T looks Very much as if I brought
some one else to jail, and they came very
quietly, too"
DO you know you were arrested on 9
charge of insanity?"
mo, I don't"
Are you a sane mani"
What kind of a man is that? Do 20,
know I'm an officer? I had a star OF
when these men came to arrest me anc
I arrested them. No court in his coun
try has a right to try me. I'll hay to bs
tried before General ~Terry-Judge Ter.
ry."