The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1905-04-21

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) Sunday by Sheriff Crokc and placed s
in jail here. Ills trial is set for J
the first week of the May term of s
Circuit Court
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SPECIAL 10 TnE TIMES AND HERALD.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April 2U.---"l don't
know you and don't want TO know
you. No, | tell you, don't know
you at all "
These were the words Bill Dooley
spoke on Tuesday afternoon of last
week when his brother, Joe Doolcy,
visited him in his dark cell at the
Four Courts in this city.
Bill Doolcy, so the guards at the
Jail say, is hopclcssIy demcnted. His
dcmcanor, they say, is not that of n
,ulky person, but Of one afflicted with
chronic mcancholla, brain disease
which aIicnIsls declare rarely yields to
treatment.
For hours, without regard to meal.
time or sleeping hours, the ST. Fran
co.'s county icudst sits in his drcary
cell in the dngy old Four Courts
building, gazing moodily into space
end refusing to answer the most
DmmonPlace questions.
When Joe Doolcy entered the cell,
his brother did not recognize him, al.
though it had been but few months
since they were together. After more
than half an hour, during which Joe
pooley used every means ut his power
10 bring his brother 10 know him, the
dcmcntcd man slowly realized that
hi, brother stood before him.
IiIl Doulcy cried thcn-cricd like t.
baby, thing that perhaps he had
done at but one other time since child
hood, and that after the battle at Doe
Run when he carried home the body of
hi, father Tor burial,
But the fcudi,t wcpt strongly that
Tuesday afternoon. He became hys.
lcrIcaI and it was several minutes be.
tore he was Gained, Then he apsed
again into that strange condition OF
mclanchoia. He would not talk Of
hl, plans for the future; Of his pend
ing trial at Huntington, or of the
hopes Of his family aud relatives for
the time when hc might again be a
man Of cheer
DooIcy ha, been one Of the least
understood prisoners OF the many
thousands who have passed behind the
steel bars which separate the st. Lou,
city jail from the cold, iron corridors
OF the -Four Courts building.
Since his coming, when former Sheriff
H. Monda Murphy brought him TO ST
Louis, Tailor Dawson has been unable
to account for Doolcy's strange bchay-
ior. Other prisoners have been unable |
TO gain his confidence, and he stead.
lastly refuses to minglc with them in
any way
Persons who knew him before the
fight at Doe Run and the killing Of
BIll Harris nj Rock Springs, can
,carccly recognize in the Bill DoOlcy |
OF today the positive and unilinchng
nature of the man who was tralcd
without success night aud day for
month, by pinkctton detectives The
man of today has none of the spirit
which enabled him to outwit the slcuths
who located Collins and Rudolph in a
few weeks,
His black eyes have lost their fire
aud today they are listless and wan
dcrlng There is "A strange light in
them and the trained guards are qure
they are the eyes of man who In,
lost his reason.
Gossips around the Four Courts
have wondered whether or not Bill |
D0oley has begun the task of feigning
insanity in the hope, Of setting it up as
his defense in his pending trial
Has Bill Doolcy, the feudist, become
Bill Dooly, the actor, the fcigner OF
mclanchulia?
The guards say Dooley is not fcign-
ing insanity, but that he is actually in
that state, with but slight chance of
recovery. His brother, Joe Dooley,
was shocked and gricvcd ut the mans
condition, and said he was forced
against every wish to join the guards
in their belief
Jaior Dawson, who has dealt with
hundreds OF actual and ieigncd cases
Of insanity during his term OF service,
says that Dooley is undoubtedly suffer
ing from chronic melancholia of an
unusual degree of severity.
He was in that state when brought
to the Four Courts Immediately after
his capture in the West, according to
the .IailOr, and there are chances that
he may become n ravIng maniac If
t'hhhcu H''it lH'it iioi'h7 "NhiH 'h'
narrow bounds Of cell, for the pris-
oncr cannot by any means be induced
to exercise or walk about in the open
court or jail yard,
"lill Dooley is crazy said one OF
the guards, "and the chances are that
he will be crazy until he dies. What
made him crazy is probably a mystery
that not even the experts can solve.
alt is belief of our department.;
that n man Of Dooley's nature would
never become dcmcnted because of hard
strokes Of fate, and that there must
have been some prcdisposed cause,
most likely hereditary, which over
al. IL.