The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-24

- sarah MeDonough. the Fremont
-e~.sy4c. viii today become an inmate Of
~ nfedtaceorn insane asylum She was
/ ...S.e.d committed yesterday by Judge
- II the PROBATE court. The hearing
sese The examining physicians was pub
- - VAS attended by a large number OF
eM woman neighoorE from the Ninth
- metropolis.
- HcDonough protested her inuo-
-re ~ the charge to the last and was
S.e1ax led lack to the jail in ignorance OF
-. eset that the medical examiners had
s.-eaoupced her insane and recommended
- Incarceration. She displayed the ut
- cunning In evadlng the questions of
- eouYs designed to trap her into re-
s.eifne her mental unsoundness and with
Es.affr emphasis announced that should
= epmmisnent be ordered she would ap-
- foY trial bv Jury before new
E1se- She denied with the apparent
- hinted TO the prosecuting attorney
- she was being persecutei by her enc
- nth Internal machines.
~ main witness against Miss MeDo-
sru6A was Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
3.ller g. Fulton He told the examining
1hyrse4ans DIR, e. w. sharpIes and DR.
a. Leughary how for six months Miss
1eDanough had teen q visitor ut the pros
1esttne attorneys office as often as two
= tasee times a week complaining wildly
enapst prominent Fremont and Seattle
1fIpens. and asking their arrest on
1sseer Of persecution Of the most horr.-
- 1Aararter. He told In detail of the
r aoman-s principal Naturalization. that
~ mind was being tortured by electric
0nen1neS set going under her house at
Att
weFai Fremont citizens also testified.
~ told how the Old woman had as
&(ee9 different persons with dangerous
6ps had exposed her person inde-
lnkiy ID the presence OF young girls and
- 0ecwn fiops on nassersby her door
~ III agreed that abe was dangerous
~ 81 large and that IL was only a ques-
~ n time when she would XIII or Sc
S1Sl5 ir3ure some one in revenge for fan
- injuries.
5s6cn Miss Mcponough herself was plac-
nn the stand and questioned by thu
m and physicians. She was nominaliy
Wssented by her lawyer. r. A. Steele.
- put no questions to her, however
- witness the old woman ragged not
efiy clean. her lank. gray locks pulled
Ihay back from her forehead. was a
Neo1ef. II WAS next 10 impossible to ellie
4 frem her answers to any questions
ghdrA might have incriminated her. Her
nm. green gray eyes were ever on the
~, watching the faces Of the judge. the
5Afdtians and the lawyers. and her
@e9ther-beaten face was alive with an
1ncAnny intelligence. She confined her
1lafsments principally TO danounclng her
J4Deutors. whom She charged with at
spotins 10 gain their ends BY sending
- t. the aRylnn. and 10 explaining in
Nnu how she had hean robbed right and
AW her supposed friends.
eone of her actions were I'm utter but
uaepnsrious disregard of the etiquatte Of
~ epurt room. She talked aloud con-
1tAstiy, addressing Judge Moore as
-Mdge." chatied conhdentiaIy with the
6rtors. rebuked Deputy Prosecuting At
tan<y Fulton as a false friend and ex-
tvsscd with greatest eandor her opinion
= her Fremont neighhors. Once she
salked boldly UP 10 the Judges bench
Nd. standing by his side, cooiIy helped
eeeself to glass OF ice water. and then
gsstesded TO discuss the case with him in
a undertone. Judge Moore was visihiy
enharyassed and yet was forced TO smile
lFeadiy at the humor of the situation.
0tre were many other iudicrous occur
lences One was when Sarah with her
eAtstest smile told Judge Moore she was
@y 81 years old and had never been III
her lfe. The examining board did not
= her age. but she Is az least 50
oid Sarah Ncponough has lived In Free
osnt and Seattle for fifteen years She
eame here from Boston, Mass. bringing
Win her several thousand dollars In hard
eash. the earnings of years OF hard labor
= do'neAtic. After reaching Seattle she
scrked at odd jobs Of house cleaning.
waning. etc. and laid nv more money.
Ten. Through overcontidence sn human
sasure, she trusted II 10 different persons
lor Investment ard lost H. Worry over
lhsse losses gradually undermined the old
saman's mina
ABOUT seven years ago she was sent 20
'ae sssi,im for few months, but recov-
ssvn Der reason. Later. In tSsss she Was
oseo far Insanity ~ a jury and aequit-
20 she sued Attorney &. r.. Remsharg.
we He'd the complaint. and recovered
l4asmrnt fer $40 damages for malicious
4 4 seseatien. II MAS olit ~ fear az sim
.ass Consequences that other complaints
= insanity have rot been flled against her
before ~
aiss AGIsaough WAS horn In ireland
"a once lived ia pittshurg Ia, she has
Nias'Ses and little property.