The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-03
WOMEN
FLED FROM
Home
In Night Dress Thsy Ran Half
a Mile 10 Escape What They
Thought a Devil.

Chicago. Feb. 3--DrivoD from their
home near tho Glenview Golf club by the
belief that the devil bad become their
unlimited guest and hurried in their flight
by the oelusion that the evil spirit was
closely pursuing thern. Mrs. Andrew Blaes
and her D-yesr-old daughter Gertrude,
clad only In their thin night robes. ran
nearly half a mile across "a corn field
IL the biting wind and sought refuge IN
the home ~ p neighbor.
Mrs. Blaes lies seriously III in the house
whore she and her daughter took refuge.
The physicians say she IS on the verge
OF nervous prostration.
Her daughter stll suffers from the cf-
feots of the fright and exposure, and
both vow they will never return 10 their
home. whore they believe the devil IS
lurking
Residents OF the suburb learned today
Of the experience Of the two women.
They are wondering why Hr Blaas the
husband and father failed to respond 20
the screams of his wife and daughter
when they saw ths supposed devil. Many
Of the neighbors were aroused by the
womens screams, but Blaes slcrt and
says he did not know they had left the
house until he arose the next morning.
ARE STUDENTS or occULTIsM.
fslaes Is a dealer sn the board OF trade
and has an ofhcs IN the Rislto building.
He In a student of eccultism and a be-
lever In theosophy Mrs. Blaes and her
daughter are said TO have investigste ted
his beliefs
The other morning Mrs. Blaes suddenly
awakened. wee seized with the hsllucina-
tion that the devil was In her room. Her
screams reused her daughter and filed
her with terror. Both avow they saw the
devil and that he followed them az they
lfshed from one room TO another
They ran from the house, clad only in
heir night garments and rushed through
The freezing atmosphere across eornheIds
Ia the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Shlpman,
half mile distant from the Blaes house.
The mother collapsed a. soon as she
WAS safe inside the home OF her neighbor.
She has since been under the care of Dr.
Joseph Sanders of GIenview Or sam
lers SAYS ne feared that the woman would
lose her mind, hut he now believes she
will recover.
RCMoRs or FAMILY STRIFE
Much gossip has been caused IN Glen
view by tho report that domestic relations
neween Mr.. and Mrs. Blaes have been
strained for Some time. " Is told I'm Glen
view that last summer Mrr. Blaes or
dered n woman visitor from her home be-
cause of attentions her husband is said
90 have showed the guest
- r. also totd ny nrigtbors that Nr.
Blaes recently predicted, as Information
received from occult sources, that his
wife would lie IN January. this year.
IL is told that he wrote this prediction
10 a woman friend in Chicago and left
the letter unsealed whore II was found
and read by his wife
Mr. and Mrs. Slacs have SON about
- years ola. who does not live az home
and who is not on friendly relations with
his father. lie said that before leaving
home he had heard his father threaten
his mothers life several times. lie also
said he believed the horns red shoes and
other parts OF the costume worn by the
appsrition, As described by his mother.
could have been founl III bis fathers
house II q search had been made