The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-29
KING OF the WORLD
HE MAKES HIS ADVENT AT THE
COUNTY JAIL.
IS CHARGED WITH INSANITY
Calls Himself Martin Mortimer and
j, Said He Was Neither Drunk Nor
Mad-Yet His Preaching
Il Filled Court Room,

crazy man who called himself the
king of the world was arrested at mid
night last night and put in the county
Jail. He was found in the street at the
Weyerhorst block on the corner of Ga
lena and Idaho streets, preaching to
himself 1t was very manifest that he
was insane, and the police interrupted
his modern evangelism and gathered
him In. He objected to being gathered
in and that made trouble.
Being a tall man with considerable
Drawn, it took two or three policemen
to remove him from the highway, and it
was necessary to call out the patrol
wagon to get him to Jail. At the court
house, he had to be carried up the steps
and through the corridor. He resented
the interruption to which his solemn
discourse had been subjected and re-
sisted so strenuously that considerable
force had to be used to get him into
jail
He was so exceedingly crazy that no
information concerning his identity, oc-
cupation, home, politics, previous con-
dition of servitude or sporting tastes
could be secured from him. Asked who
he was, he solemnly declared that he
was Martin Mortimer, God, the
Father and King of the World" and
that he had been torn from the bosom
of the church. He reiterated
this statement whenever the question
was put, the unvarying answer show
ing that his identity was firmly estab-
lished in his own mind or whatever was
left of it.
He was put into the corridor of the
jail and proceeded at once to finish the
| interrupted sermon there. He DOTTED his
| coat and folded it in roll. He sur
mounted one end of the roll with his
| hat and held the image thus made UP
! in front Of him above his head in q
treverent attitude and addressed it. He
spent the night preaching and his voice
rose and sWelled in rounded periods.
| The sermon might have been impressive
If the connections had been better made.
III AS 1t was, he kept the others prison
ers awake and made them tired. He
repeatedly said he was king OF
the world he had dominion over the
fowls of the air, the beasts Of the for
! est and the fish of the sea.
He was examined before Judge
Clancy this morning. After being
brought into the court room he held
his hat up in the air and began an
harangue 1t became necessary to re-
move him, and he went out OF the room
| with his hand in the Air declaimlng. he
| is a very tall man and the effect was
| striking.
When he was brought back he said
I his name was Martin Mortimer of the
county of Glengarry, Queenstown, Ire
land, at the same time raising MS
hand above his head and pronOunclng
the words with slow and solemn en-
| phasis.
/ II am neither drunk nor mad" he
| said.
The court got his attention for sec
ond and told him he was charged with
| irpsanity
II deny the charge" he said i'm
pressively; then he went on with his
exhortation, with wierd eSpression-hls
ewes turned up to the ceiling.
II talked in the street last night, ne
said in declamatory voice, with his
! hand aloft. Il spoke of the saving
mower of Jesus Christ and the
church" Then his voice sWelleo
and his preaching filled the cour'
room, So he was taken out. Ar
order for his commitment to the asy-
lum was made.