The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-24
HIS LOVE- ENDS IN LUNACY.
STORY OF THE MISFORTUNE OFF
ATTORNEY e. H. APLIN, OF
HURON
WAS A LIGHT OF THE BAR
Suddenly Becomes Insane, Relieving
That His Wife Wishes to BE
RID of Him-In Detention
Hospital.

CHICAGO. April 2S-The story Of the
sudden insanity of Attorney Edward IL.
Aplin, of Huron, S. D., which was men
toned in a telegram yesterday, shows
that he and his wife came from the Da-
kota city a few days ago and registered
at the Briggs house. Both were young,
both were as happy as two persons re-
Gently married and In perfect mental ac-
cord could be, and nothing seemed like
ly to mar their love story. Up to Thurs
day last this state of affairs exis; ed Then
suddenly, and without having given any
premonition of the tragic termination that
was to come young Aplin's brain gave
way, and now he occupies cell at the
detention hospital, bound hand and foot
like a dangerous wild animal, lest he do
himself or some of his attendants an in
jury.
AS for the pretty young bride, she can
only sit at the home of friends and weep
and wish for her husbands recovery,
which the brain repairers think is re-
mote possibility. She would like to for
get that in his frenzy he tried to harm
her until she was forced to flee from him
as from an enemy.
THINKS WIFE MEANS TO LEAVE
HIM.
Most painful of all to the wife, how
ever, is the knowledge Of the form her
husbands fantasy took He was seized
with the idea that she meant him ILL.,
and that she preferably would be rid or
him. This hallucination grew quickly as
he nurtured it, and had reached its ma
turity almost before his friends were
aware that the seed of it had taken rot.
Aplin, who is a lawyer, was formerly
a state senator in South Dakota, and
states attorney at Huron. A man or
high sensitiveness, hard student, Drill
liant orator, and devoted totler for MS
clients, it is little wonder, his friends
think that overwork weakened his mind,
but they are none the less astonished that
at his wife should be directed the ShaIeS
of his insane malice.
Out in Huron, when Aplin and his wife
were welded a short time ago, they call
ed it love match. Now they are Won
dering whether any real foundation eX-
lists for his suspicion that she does not
love him as much as he thought she d.
The young husband was conveyed to
the detention hospital at o'clock in the
morning, after having made the night
a terrible one for his spouse. AT first
she tried to soothe him and convince him
his distorted brain was deceiving him In
his unjust accusations against her, but
when he added physical violence to verbal
castigation, she was obliged to run f.om
him to keep from being struck. She
stood 1t as long as she could, but fear
finally got the better of her distaste of
making known her husbands sad condi-
ton and she called members Of the hotel
force to her aid.
HOTEL GUESTS AROUSED.
The guests by this time were aroused,
and, Aplins mania having by this tine
reached the shrieking stage, they were
drawn into the corridors, half dressed
and inquisitive, while through this noe
turnal Gordon the mailman was half led,
half dragged by the house employees and
the police whom they had called to their
help.
He fought his custodians wildly, and II
was deemed well to tie him foot and hand
before putting him into the patrol wag
on and bundling him away like bunch
Of faggots.
At the hospital later in the day the
physicians gathered around him and
shook their heads in a puzzled sort of
way. They applied the usual tests and
then tapped their brains Significantly and
looked very wise, as if to intimate that
the patient was in anything but the same
state of mentality.
HE may recover and he may no."
they said, not lucidly. IT'S a bad case.
Overwork, strain on the thought stcuc-
ture; finally it-falls, and that's the end
of the first chapter Can it be built up
again? Probably. But it's a question"
WELL KNOWN IN HURON.
HURON, s. D., April Backward H.
Aplin and wife are among Huron's best
citizens Mr.. Aplin is one of the most
favorably known attorneys in the state,
is an ex-member of the state senate and
ex-state's attorney of Beadle county He
is prominent in politics, and is an elo-
quent orator. He had been in ill health
some time, and went to Chicago last
week, accompanied by his wife, for va
cation.