The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-24
HAS STRANGE
HALLUCINATI0N
Mrs. Eva Seamans Labors
Under DeluSion.
SOMEONE SEEKING HER LIFE
Is One of the Things That Is
Troubling Her.

poria avenue is suffering from strange
hanucination. She believes that 2 famny
named Waldo has been following her fol
the past eighteen years. they are trying
to ruin her reputation. break Up her fam
lily and do her bodily harm. Her husband
is travelling man and he has Iabored
many hours with her trying to persuade
her that it is all her imagination. bat
/ she will not have il that way and she
| has told her daughter her troubles until
Miss Cora Seamans is also laboFing IN
/ der the same vagary OF mind. but not
/ as strongly as the mother.
/ Mrs. Seamans IS a bright woman. past
middle ife, has an excellent educatio
and is woman that moves in the highest
society. But that strange feeling that
some one is logging her footsteps is al
/ ways uppermost in her nature and makes
| her miserable.
! NO enc can ever know" said she TO
a reporter for the Eagle yesterday after
noon. what 1 have suffered for the
past eighteen years on account of the
actions of this family. 1 have spent hours
in my room. in tears and in prayer and
have endured the most terrible forms
Of mental anguish. And Mrs. Seamans
shows in her fact and action what she
| has undergone.
! The woman honestly believes in her own
/ mind that some one has been following
! her, trying TO do her bodily harm and
no amount of talking can help her. She
/ has labored under that strange Illusion
for so many years that only death can
relieve her mind and her soul from the
suffering she has had.
Mrs. Seamans was very willing to talk
| when the reporter called at her home
yesterday afternoon and she told the
story OF her haIlucination without break
or questioning. 1t is a story going back
through more than eighteen years OF
her life to a time when she was once
happy and what made her so unhappy
The reporter went to the house 70 have
explained the meaning OF the following
letter which was received by Chief Burt
Saturday:
Chief of Police, Dear Sir: You will
kindly burn the following as of no value
but the thought has occurred to me that
you are trying, without consulting me-
10 unravel the mystery Of these Waldos
and their accomplces. It is quite likely
that the Waldos live here under an as
sumed name, as when we first came here
two years ago the 18th of January. 1 was
under the impression for SOME months
that they were located in the north part
Of town. I asked the patrolman II he
knew people of that name and he said
he had inquired and knew none
think more likely now that they are in
the south or southwest part OF town,
though 1 can give no special reason for
same Late last summer. about II O'Clock
at night. l noticed a young man Of Wal
dos stature commence whiting as he
reached our yard and stop short when
he approached our neighbors on the
south When we first came an elderly
man whom I thought TO be Mr.. Waldo
passing on opposite side Of the street TO
the north-whistled TO me and as 1 turned
he quickly assumed an innocent air and
passed on. He was whistling 10 impress
the workmen on a neighbors house Mr..
Waldo when I knew him. was tau and
slender blue eyes and the air Of a cleT-
gyman. perhaps least Of all the guilty
person whom ! believe his wife has made
OF him. Neither in Iowa or here has one
word from friend or foe come TO me
directly in explanation of this mystery.
Those who defend me imperfectly under
stand the beginning The town was small
cur social position exclusive-this people
were ambitious to come TO the front
they lived opposite Us. The widow-Airs.
ThomPson-a milliner, coming from their
own town. FL Dorado. Iowa. did not
notice or go near them. She often came
to see nre-we lived oveS our own store
grocery and crockery-in Conrad, Iowa
etc
The Waldos kept hardware store
opposite for a Mr.. Smith Of Eldora.
also had postojce. They lived over store.
The oldest daughter WAS. perhaps. 70
or 20 years-a well formed handsome
girl. dark hair and eyes. married 70 n
Mr.. St John. who loowed older than her
father. Mr.. St John had sinai meat
shop adjoining the hardware. After the
doand quickly. Brothcrf emf emf emf ~
loss Of the postolIjce and before. Mr..
Waldo used 70 fold his arms and look
over our way as innocent as n saint az
my unsuspecting husband. who could
not be made 70 understand their subtiety.
Mr.. Waldo has dark eyes. round feat
ures. medium height quite short and
smooth Of speech. The sou-in-law was
well built but net stout. He has light
eyes and hair ike father. He vas located
Cor q short time on the west side OF
North Main street down IN one Of those
news stands and when he saw me COM
ing ducked his head
The youngest daughter IS about my
size. with pretty blue eyes. Il IS she who
personates Mrs. Scanans occasionally on
her RAY 10 meet her sweetheart Il
il she who followed ma that dark night
She Is a tan, broad shouldered man. and
the snake. the beast who IS their sc-
com7lice seemed 10 appear n town about
the same time The tan lover called
after me once from livery Stable
The family had no reason in Iowa u
think that I knew CO their work and
hence appeared il Kinsley with great
holiness. especially the son. ~ho vas
often about with his workers. fsls sure
I saw the mother PASS the house tEfce
dressed piainly. eYi1suliy studying the
possibilities Or nv upper rorch me
yoiine man whom they appoint for the
dark deed rlsr be a relative 81 Mrs
U-aldos side. never saw him n face,
but once b1t the cunning eva lock zIiei
terror Once ] net him but he dropped
his head ard Pulled hts hzt over 50 FAR
conia not make ont RS fea.ures-slre
sign Of guilt Two years ago last W
xerber. with ny Dor. 7 urn. - Topeka
"a