The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-31
''BOy Defaulter" Located,

'BOy Defaulter' Located
March 31.-william Schneider, the s.boy de-
faulter'' of ElizabethDort n. j.. who is &C
cused of embezzling S1O60 and who has
been fugitive since Oct 9, 1900, has, it is
announced, been located. 1t is expected his
arrest will follow.
Mrs. Anna Hart, the young woman for
whom Schneider purchased carriages, dia-
lnonds and expensive gowns, was visited by
deputy Sheriffs, who levied all the prop
erty she had. They were amazed to find with
what prodigality Schneider had humored the
caprices Of the woman for whom he became
a slave. She regarded him with contempt.
1.-The money Of that little fool" said the
woman, did not buy any of these things"
1t is said that the furnishings of the apart
ment represent an outlay OF $4,000 The fur
niture IN the seven rooms is of expensive
woods and the upholstery and draperies are
Of costly materials.
The jewelry establishment Of j. Dreicer &
Son, it learned, had sold Mrs. Hart
100000 worth Of jewelry young schreiber's
order. Of this he paid $4,000 and they held
jewels worth $4,000 to secure $l2, 900 still due.
Schneider also spent $4,000 for horses and
carriages for the young woman. Then he paid
her expenses for a journey to Europe. After
her return they Quarreled and Schneider dis
appeared He has only recently been located.
The World Growing Insane.
News to New York to-day that DR..
w. B.. Fletcher of Indianapolis, a specialist
| in diseases of the mind, had startled his
brethren Of the hoosier state by making a
public statement in which he declared that
the world Is going crazy Time flies, and the
earth's millions are to be mad ere six gen.
erations have peoped its rockribbed hills and
pensive wales, so says the hoosier sage; less
than two paltry centuries remain to sanity,
and the hundred-year clubs successor may
participate in the finish of reason.
The dispatch was shown to Dr. J. Leonard
Corning, who few years ago wrote a book
conveying a warning as to effects of modern
living in the production of insanity which
was widely quoted and commented upon both
hers and abroad. . -. &
DR.. Corning said that he had no fear OF the
worlds going mad, least of all of the people
of the United States going mad as a nation. 1
Il know OF no people so likely to be sane
200 years from now" he said. las this peo-
pie. l don't think that Christianity carries
insanity with it or that it is. worse than other
religions, but rather the best. There have
always been religions in the world and al
ways will be, and I think that the Christian
religion is undoubtedly the best of them
lone OF the offices that religion performs is
to supply seemly outlet for emotions, and
there is nothing more dangerous than pent-u
omotion-mOre dangerous to sound well-being
| Mistakes have been made. but particularly
| nowadays, when the leading clergy of all
churches have a better understanding of the
psychological element the teachings of reli-
gion greater benefit and less danger, and
they are helpful in aiding the emotional tc
| proper living.
There has been slight increase of insan-
| ity In large cities. but we are learning all
| the time both better how 20 treat these dis
eases and how to live so that they will be
| less likely to overtake us. And when l say
| we l mean this people above all others, and
/ have lived for ten years among others and
had a chance to obser re them To live in this
| country makes man unwilling to live any.
where else, and rest assured We shall not BIZ
mad two centuries hence, whatever other
peoples may do to themselves in that line
! A <sGood Man, XnsuIted.
I It has come out that the Riverside banl
suspected one of its employees recently of be.
| ing drinking man and had him followed
around nights. Recently the bank discharged
him and then went through his accounts
which were straight to cent Recevins
Teller Harry G. Bell, the exemplary young
man whom nobody suspected, walked off. as
| the directors say, with $4,000 of the banks
money.
According to an officer of the bank the
cashier heard stories about the suspected
employe which alarmed them. Detectives fol
! lowed him for some time They discovered
| that he stayed out late nights and that his
habits was that the man was told that hi:
services were not required. 1t was during
the examination OF his books, which followed
that the cashier Of the bank had recourse Last