The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-23
LuNArrc ATTACKED AN OFFICER.
Exciting Scene in the ONCE of the
Court OF Ordinary.

negro woman who had been arrested
in Woodville on a charge of lunacy and
brought to the Court House for commit
ment to the county Jail. created consider
able CONSERVATION in the Office of Clerk
Keilbach OF the Court of Ordinary yester-
day morning.
The woman was Rebecce Brown She
has been mentally unbalanced for some
length OF time but it is only recently
that she has become dangerous to those
by whom she was surrounded, her mania
having taken a homicidal form and re-
suited in assaults that created consterna-
ton in the neighborhood. While in the
thrOes Of one of these attacks she assault
ed her aged mother and nearly succeeded
in killing the old woman before assistance
could arrive. This was the GROWING
stroke, and it was determined TO cause
her arrest and Incarceration and subse-
quent removal to the state sanitarium al
Milledgeville
Bailif Gailard, who is a resident of the
suburb in which the woman has been lv-
ing with her husband was called upon
70 make the arrest. He did make it and
brought the woman, accompanied by her
husband and brother, Tom Garrett to the
office Of the clerk of the Court of Ordi-
nary at the county Court House.
The circumstances were explained to
Clerk keilbach, and he went into an inner
office, accompanied by the men who were
to attest the correctness of the facts, to
draw the warrant for lunacy While he
was thus engaged GalIlard and the woman
were left in the outer office.
The lunatic occupied herself foolishly as
unatics will, scribbling uninteIigible
notes on an office pad and munching a
huge sausage. Suddenly she sped across
the room and began to take up various
articles from the desk of the clerk At
this point Gaillard Ventured a mild re-
monstrance, telling the woman that she
must leave the desk alone.
His remonstrance seemed to Undue her
with a wild fury and in half the time
it takes to tell 1t she had snatched a
sharp paper knife from the desk and,
Drandishing it IN her hand, started for the
oailih. Perfectly cognizant of the fact
that this was one of the occasions when
discretion was much the better part of
valor, Gaillard retreated. When Clerk
Kehbach and the others rushed from the
inner office to the one in which the row
was taking place the woman was stand
ing within two feet of the bailiff with the
knife appraised and ready to strike The
men rushed upon her and overpowere1
her, but not until she had succeeded in
inf1icting considerable damage upon the
wearing apparel and cutic,e of Officer
Gailiard.
Even with her arms pinoned her
tongue was free and she poured forth
volley of profanity and bl ingsgate that
Mr. Keilbach described as something
awful" Finally she was placed in a police
patrol wagon and sent to the iail but
she sent number of Parthian arrows.
winged shafts of profanity and abuse,
behind her as she departed.
Gaillard is rice field negro of the old
type. and very funny one He was
comical looking object when he reported
in the sherif's office after the encounter,
and to hear him tell of the manner in
which the woman had attacked him was
more comical still. He talks a Gullah dia-
ect that the unnitiated would need
glossary TO enable them to understand,
and he was more than a title excited
Dat CONAN is bad licker,'' he concluded