The Washington times., 1905-04-01
Mother and Sister Now
| Charged With IN
| sanity.
|SCENES ARE FRIGHTFUL
Annie Angle Passes Away
in Agony Amid Halluci-
nations.

ME Anglo Gied in agony after a prolong-
ed uphill struggle. Her death is be-
| neved by the police TO have seriously af-
fected the minds of her mother and
sister, Sarah. and Lille, respectively,
and after the body, greatly enaciated,
| was taken TO an undertaking establish
| ment, the two women were removed to
the First precinct, where they were
charged with insanity.
Police surgeons viii this afternoon
make an investigation into the charge
1t is believed by the police and doctors
| who have seen them and talked with the
women that they are suffering from
paranoia, or a mania for persecution,
That the ecentric treatment accorded
the woman by her relatives while in
Mrs Abraham's house played no unim-
portant part In bringing about her de-
mise is the belief OF all persons whose
attention has been called to the case.
From the outset the two women, blessed
with health of body If not ef mind. in
sisted that the three should remain to-
gether and would listen to no suggestion
of removing the woman sick unto death
from a complication OF diseases. They
also persisted in saying they were from
one of the first families of England, but
this is seriously questioned by the police
Screams Heard Blocks Away.
Never was death feared more or fought
off with as much dread with the last
atom of strength. The womans screams
Were heard blocks away She clutched
at themuch- and frayed garments
| OF her relatives, and begged them to
| save her from goinfs to the ''black be-
| yond,' or to accompany her. She also
| pleaded with them to protect her from
the demons who beset her.
With a final cry that rang through
the lodging house, the sick woman rose
up in her bed, embraced her sister, and.
with q gasp, died The mother and SIS
ter, realizing that the end had come,
| tried to bring her back to life. The
still form was dragged from the bed and
put down the floor near the window.
The mother forced the sunken jaws
| open, and breathei into the mouth in
Vulnerable times. The sister worked
| the enaciateo arms up and down. as
though trying to revive a drowned per
son. The wrists weer then 'patten. and
the ankles rubbed with stimulants The
ears We're taken between the hands adm
rubbed vigorously. but all to no avail.
The corpse was then stood un in a COR
ner, and while the mother tried to hold
| it up the heartbroken and inconsolable
| sister huggec and kissed the bIoodless
! lips and gazed wistfully into CLASSY
| eyes set deep in their sockets, by lack
| of nourishmeut and suffering.
The two then began screaming and
weeping so loud that the landlady and
all the dodgers were reused from their
! slumbers. and in few moments the
place was in an uproar-
Made a Strenuous Resistance.
| The two women refused to be pasified
Mrs. Ahrahams, the landlady, finding ali
efforts to quiet them in vain, ran to the
Central Union Mission a half block
away, and obtained help It required six
| policemen to subdue the sister and two
/ to quiet the mother. although the latter
was scarcely axle TO walk.
by the living God you shall not take
my sister away shrielled Lille, the
sister I'VE shall not be separated. .
! Before any one could get to her she
! picked up a table knife and was in the
! act OF drawing it across her throat
when a policeman Knocked the weapog S 9
| FROM her. "Ah, I see IL all now, said
the woman laughing Historically and
! pulling out her coal black hair by the
! roots Il see it all. In life you could
net sever US, bat when the coia ha1a 5I
! Of death strikes one OF US you lntrude
upon the bereaved. / shall end 1t all
/ yet so you really have accomplished
nothing.
Body Sent to Norgue.
The policemen held a consultation and
decided to send the body TO the morgue
after informing Coroner hewitt. The lat
ter today gave a certificate Of Bright 5
disease and complications DR. William
T. Gill of Az NJ street northwest, con-
Cured IN this opinion
Dr.. Gill was summoned to the bedside
of the woman on Thursday night
against the protest of the sister and
mother. He then declared she had been
neglected too long and was beyond
human aid. The women had been givine
her a treatment which consisted prin-
cipally of mustard plasters. They Were
applied 10 the Soles OF her feet. which
| were burned raw. Her chest was also
burned crimson. Notwithstanding all
ments fro mwhich she must have suf
fercd for moaths, her relatives abso-
luteIY refused to let Il doctor come nea;
her.
rhey believe in Christian Science. ant
in addition II the mustard piasters pray
! ed 4 great deal, and also read chapter:
from the Bible to the woman While hel
life ebbed away. They had little or nj
| money and spurned groceries and pro
! visions when offered Consequently tn,
sick woman had nothing TO eat.
Mrs. Abrahams Takes in Woman.
The Angle women were all taken I,
the lodging house last Sunday by u rae,
horse follower, who became intereste,
III their case. Mrs. Abrahams dies no
make q practice OF taking women a
lodgers, but the pitiable condition o
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