The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-23
"whirlwind" Is Ordered Committed
toProvo.
EVIL SPIRITS AFTER HIM
WHY he STIRRED UP SOME
TROUBLE.
Constant Attendance at Police Court
Is Assigned as the Cause Of the
Little Germans Insanity-Will
Be Put Where He Can't Break Up
Any More Furniture.

You are in a pretty bad shape, Mr..
Schewed, and we will see that you have
proper care and attention
But I don't want to go to Provo. y
piaintiyely appealed the rheumatism
racked and diminutive German, in an
swer to Deputy Clerk George E. Blair's
ultlmatum, after Officer Hempel had
testified under oath that the only rea-
son that he could assign for Schewed' s
Wrecking and bonlbarding propensities
was the fact that the demented man
mad been in constant attendance at the
police court matinees for half a de-
cade.
screwed, who. on account of his in
nrmity, is unable TO navigate a block
under fifteen minutes by the watch,
was driven from the COUNTY Jail in a
mack yesterday afternoon and painfully
hobbied into the court room, escorted
by Deputy Sheriffs Dowse and Naylor,
where he faced Deputy Clerk George E.
Blair, County Physician H A. Ander-
son and DIR. A. C. Young, on the charge
of insanity
The little German told his story in a
perfectly rational manner with due re-
gard to detail. He said his name was
Carl h Schewed, age 81, single, and
that he came to this city from Ell Paso,
Tex, ten years ago. when he embarked
in the merchandise business. Upon be-
ing questioned as to the nature OF his
commercial enterprise, he stated that
1t consisted in operating a novelty and
toy stand on Second South Lately, he
said, his brother, Philip Schewed of
'Petaluma, Cal, had been sending him
SIS a month towards his support; he
further acknowledged to having a sis
ter in the same state. Mrs. Esta We'll
of Amador City, Cal.
Officer Sperry, upon being called, said
that about a month ago he was sum-
moned to the Dolly block and found
the fourth floor: upon his appearance
the crazy man anbuslled himself in q
room and proceeded to pour a CALLING
fire of books, inkpotS and unclassiied
matter through the transom. Eventu-
ally he broke the door down, when the
maniac promptly baptized him with a
pitcher of water ere he was captured.
Officer Hempel then furnished an
itemized statement as to the condition
in which he found room in Mrs. Moy-
er's lodging house on Second South a
few days later to the above incident;
Hempel said it took him twenty min
utes, TO break the door down, when he
found Schewed bowling like coyote
amid various wreckage, which included
an overturned stove, lamp and a bed
stead. with its legs raised in mute pro-
test to the ceiling.
Officer Parry told a similar tale. and
further stated that the lunatic had ac-
ccSted him on the street three weeks
ago, and confidentially informed him
that some evil disposed persons were
after him, TO wrest his rheumatic cure
from his sealed Hips.
When asked to account for his eccen-
tricites, Schewed said that he remem-
bered the incidents perfectly. Noises
in his ear told me- he said, that my
life was in danger; there were people
shooting overhead. and 1 was terribly
frightened
How do you account for his actions.
Mr.. Hempel?" asked George E. Blair.
The burly policeman sagaciously
scratched his chin as he diagnosed the
case. We'll" he, said Il don't know.
but he has been. attending the police
court for the last few years"
You think that that has turned his
b-ain2' aske- Dr.. Young.
"Well''-whereupon Hempel waxed
exceeding non-committal, amid an aud
IDLE smile on the part of the sheriff's
department.
The demented man.. who looks as
though he has already one foot in the
grave, was eventually committed to the
insane asylum at Provo, where he will
be taken on this mornings train.