The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-12
PROBLEM IS SOLVED
ORDER COMMITTING MRS. CURTIS
TO THE ASYLUM MADE.
WORRY OFF MINDS OF POLICE
Woman Who Distracted the Authori-
ties to Go to Warm Springs
Diverting Investigation Into
Her Sanity Today.

An investigate into the sanity of
has distracted the police, the keepers of
the jails and the prosecuting and judi
cial authorities of the city and county
for some time, was held in Judge Nc
Germans court this morning, and it was
Of "a particularly diverting character. At
its conclusion DIS. Donnelly and McIn-
tyre, the physicians who acted as a san
ity commission in the case, held con-
sul:ation with the judge and it was de-
cided to commit Mrs Curtis to the in
sane asylum at Warm Springs.
While the examination of Mrs. Curtis
ended definitely enough SO far as the jul
die al end of it was concerned, the path
illogical results were less we'll defined as
the doctors could not decide just the
X nd of insanity that the woman is
trouhled with. She is not right in her
mind, but she hardly comes within the
rules, as a crazy person.
There were several witnesses against
Mrs. Curtis. Clerk VIM, of the police
court testified that Mrs. Curtis was
{. euuently in the city Jail and before
the police judge in criminal entangle--
ments in which disturbances formed the
nucleus of the trouble.
There is a man who troubles the mind
of Mrs. Curtis, by the name of Mcclure,
and VIM said that Mcclure was al
ways mixed up in Mrs. Curtis tales OF
woe. 1t is always Mcclure. She be-
lered Mcclure was trying to kill her.
She always acted crafty in the police
couit room. If Mcclure was sent out
for and lodged in jail, she would become
pacitied. She acted often as IT she We're
drunk, but her breath did not corrobor-
ate her actions nor justify the assump-
ii II. The witness had been told that
Mrs. Curtis was not a drinking woman
Under Sheriff McGuigan told about the
way the defendant behaved while at the
county Jail He said she made all kinds
of odd noises and imagined she was
sadly wrcnged, and prosecuted. and that
she was always innocent. sometimes
she would sing and dance and then she
would suddenly change and tell OF her
troubles by the hour, if any one Woula
listen to her. She was not personally
Clearly. and would intersperse tears
throughout her rectals at times.
Police Officer Young testified that the
defendant kept them all jumping down
at the city jail, ana lHat SHS Aio''S'SN'
for Sol. the jailer.. all the time.
The neighbors complained of her. but
she always made it appear that she was
wronged She was plausible in her expla-
nation. She acted as if she was crazy,
in the opinion of the officers.
Mrs. Curtis invited questions when she
was put on the stand. and said de1antly
that she certa My thouaht she knew she
was in the court Her eyes cleaned
with defiance and excitement. and her
struggling grey locks fell about her heai
in witch-l like tangle. She was arrayed
in a waist of scarlet and a black dress.
Her hat perched upon her head in re-
CARELESS fashion. But her mind was clear
enough and her tongue ready, and her
wit clear.
At the end of the examination one OF
the doctors said: lis there any insanity
In your family Mrs. Curtis?'
mo, sir" replied the old woman.
There's a little spunk in the family, Sir
that is, when we're stepped on
The answer came vimfully, and her