Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-23
CAssIUs M. CLAY DEAD.

Recently Declared lnSane-BarrlcaQeQ l Himself Against Examiners. Louisville, Ky, July 23.AA telephone message from Richmond, Ky, says:
 Cassius M Clay, the Sage of White Hall,'' former minister to Russia and widely known Kentuckian, died at his home at White Hall at 9:10 o'clock last night. a
 His children were all at his bedside. l Some of them had not been in their fathers house or seen him in years be- cause of his peculiar hallucination 1 that they were in vendetta sworn to kill him.
 | General Clay was declared insane on 1 July 8, the action being taken at the in stance of his children to protect his property. Fa& 1 Barricading his room in. White Hall, his ancestral home. General Clay kept the two doctors sent by the Madison county court to examine into his men, tai condition at bay for several hours by guarding the house with his shot gun. They had hard time trying to make their report on the lunacy writ obtained by his children, but they suc- ceeded, and their evidence resulted in his being adjudged insane
 General Clay was 98 years old. He took 8 prominent part in the agitation I-of abolition views views during slavery days, and after the war retired to his home to lead life of country gentle 1 man.
 | He astonished the entire country in 1892 by marrying girl of 15, Dora | CIell Richardson. He was then S3 years old, but no one dared to comment openly upon the peculiar match, as the general showed himself ready on all occasions to resent any remarks about himself.
 Taking his child wife to White Hall, he placed her in veritable prison, guarding her as though she were in a fortress. He was afraid constantly 1 that he would be attacked by enemies, and was always prepared to resist a siege. After his marriage to his child wife he believed that his enemies were planning to steal her from him. He engaged band of armed men to guard the place, with instructions to shoot anyone who acted in any way sus- picious1y.
 WILL Bryant, a young farmer, was said to be especially attentive to young l ened on many occasions to kill him on
 sight. Ac this time the general was paying the house rent of his wifeis
 brother, Clell Richardson, and he said
 he would cut off further supplies of
 money unless young Bryant kept away from his house. This trouble was patched up, though Dora stayed with
 her brother for days at time return
 ing when she was so inclined to her husband in White Hall.
 1 When his child wife was taken i'll
 the old generals anxiety was pathetic
 to witness. When she was we'll
 enough she returned to the general s house. Finally, after several domes- | tic spats, Dora again left his roof and
 refused to return. and General Clay
 brought suit against her on the ground of abandonment
 While the suit was pending the gen. eral discovered that his wife had fallen in love with Riley Brock, her sweet heart of earlier days, and, using this evidence, he procured a divorce. The l general gave her a farm near his own upon which she lived with her new husband, who was killed by a train at Long View, III, on June 21 last. When 1 General Clay heard of the death of his former wife's husband he sent his at- tendant, Joe Perkins, to bring her back 1 to him, but she would not consider his offer, though she has a child 3 years old.
 l General Clay was graduate of Yale 1 and veteran of the Mexican war He fought more due1s than any other man in the country. He founded public schools in Kentucky, and as minister to Russia during the civil war he helped to prevent England from active. ly assisting the south. He also was in i terested in the purchase of Alaska by the United States. He was also an edi- or, lecturer and politician.
 1 His first wife got divorce from him
 and he divided his property of 2,O0O acres among her and his children, giv- 1 ing her a full half and retaining fot himself only 26o acres and the home
 stead In March, 1889, he was believed
 to be insane and an attempt was made l t~ put him under restraint. ! JEFFERSON'S SON-IS-LAW.