The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-18
COURT JACKS UP"
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Judge Harrison Orders Him
to Sue Ames' and Nor
beck's BOndsmen.

Judge Harrison has precipitated a
crisis in the matter of bringing Ames
and Norbeck's bondsmen to time.
Yesterday afternoon Judge Harrison
notified County Attorney Boardman
that If the order Of the court to bring
suit against the bondsmen in these
cases was not obeyed within twenty
four hours he would appoint an outside
attorney to draw the papers and issue
peremptory order.
This order was at once cOmmunicat-
ed to the county attorney, who jumped
from his desk in a tremendous state
of agitation and proceeded at once to
Judge Harrison's chambers. What oc-
CURED there between the two gentle
men is not of record, but the interview
was somewhat prolonged and there is
very little doubt that it was a stormy
meeting.
Nearly three weeks ago Judge Har-
r1SOn ordered suit begun Ola the Ames
and Norbeck bonds at once. He is said
to be much incensed that this order has
been treated in what he considers a
dilatory manner Nothing had been
done up to yesterday morning, when
the assistants in the county attorneys
office Immediately began drawing up
the papers.
The bondsmen who will be proceeded
against are Thomas Lowry, William
l. DouLeil' tneSe peinS on @9,UOO
bond; Fred Schiek and William H.
Johnson on a bond of $1,000, both.
these bonds being for A. A. Ames.
Richard j. Hill and Brando Sodini will
also be asked to make good on a $4,000
bond for Chris Norbeck, the detective,
who is now serving sentence.
1t is considered unlikely that the
bOndsmen will be required to pay the
full amount of the bond in either case.
Norbeck being in jail and Ames under
arrest, it is considered that the court
will take these facts into considera-
ton in dealing with the bondsmen. In
the NOrbeck case the bOndsmen offered
a S., 900 reward for the mans arrest
and subsequently paid the amount to
his captors.
None of these matters can be adj
justed, however, until the suits die
tated by Judge Harrison have been
brought to trial.
The friends of DR.. A. A. Ames in
Minneapolis are well satisfied that the
matter Of his eXtradition is to be ar
gued in Nashua, owing to the alleged
inability Of DR.. Ames to travel.
The contention of the state authori-
ties is that Ames, instead Of being
a victim of paresis, is merely suffer-
ing from the use of drugs-that he Is,
in fact, a confirmed user of cocaine,
and that he has been addicted to the
Ames' friends assert that a medical
examination, which will become neces-
sary, will demonstrate the utter men
tai incapacity of the eX-mayor, whom
they declare to be entirely irrespon-
sible
For year before he left Minneapolis
DR.. Ames was subject to Authorizations
and to all the other symptoms of arctic
degeneracy. These symptoms are rec
ognized by Minneapolis doctors as in
fallible signs of the mans mental de-
generacy and as being insusceptible of
being duplicated by any process Of
drug using.
DR.. E. J. Clarke, who was a close
friend Of Ames and one of his ap-
pointees, declares that Ames never
used drugs, that in fact he was so
averse to them that he seldom or never
prescribed morphine or coacine for his
patients, no matter how much pain
they were suffering.
Il am aware" said DR.. Clarke last
night, that DR.. Ames was mentally
unbalanced for a long time before he
left this city. He could not follow out
a train of thought and was not to be
depended on in any matter that re-
quired continuity of mental effort.
Il remember that he was apparently
sane upon some subjects, but that
where others were concerned he had
HduuClQd1OnS. "A
disease from which he is suffering is
| a progressive one it is not to be con-
Sidered surprising that he is much
worse now than when he left Minneap-
| oils"
Ames had a curious hallucination to
the effect that he had been robbed Of
| watch which would register the hui
| nudity of the atmosphere. He had
| half the police force at one time
| searching for this watch, and his anx-
| iety over the loss of this imaginary
| property was almost pitiful.
| Another illustration is furnished in
! his constant dread that his wife should
| find out that his child was paying him
| visits. He imagined that he had been
| divorced from his wife and that the
| custody of the child had been awarded
/ to her.
CONCORD, N. H, Feb. 17-Prepara-
/ lions practically are completed for a
! protest tomorrow to the granting by
| the governor and council of extradition
papers for the removal to Minnesota of
| Former Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis,
| who is wanted in that city for alleged
| attempted bribery. DR.. Ames will not
| appear at the hearing, but his counsel,
| G. J. Hamblett, will present in his stead
! two physicians who, 1t is expected, will
| state that the removal of DR.. Ames
from the house of Rev. c.. M Chapin ia
| Hancock will endanger his life. On
the other hand, Sheriff Dreger, Of He\-
nepin county, Mimi, will seek to con-
trovert the statement of the two physi-
clans by that of DR.. Conn, of this city,
| who examined DR.. Ames today, at the
request of the Minneapolis officers. DR..
| Ames was kept a close prisoner at the
| Chaplin house in Hancock today No
| one except the immediate family and
| DR.. Conn saw him, and the doors were
guarded by deputy Sheriffs.