The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-28
HAUGHEY INSANE
lola AOung Man Threw Baggage
on the Track.
He Narrowly Misses Falling
Under the Wheels.
TELLS STRANGE TALES
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Once Fell From a Balloon and
Broke Three Ribs.
Invented a Rapid Firing Gun
Ont of a Pipe.

lola. kan. June 2s.-The Record
says.
Leon Haughey, the young man who
suffered a painful mishap by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite cap in his pock-
ct at the lola Portland some time ago.
did not go to Wichita as expected. He
was discharged as able to travel and
left the hospital and went to the south
bound train on the Santa Fe. But in
stead of leaving he was taken before
Judge Smith and an application for his
reception in an asylum viii be made.
Haughey is manufactured young
man not far along in his twenties, and
he shows no indications Of insanity
except an excited eye and his remark
able conversation.
At the depot when the train arrived
lie concluded q lat Of exaggerated at
tention bestowed upon his limited bag
gage by throwing it on the track IN
front OF the train. He narrowly miss
ed falling under the wheels himself.
He was taken in charge and DR.. D.
w. Reid and Officer Sam Fuson brought
him up town.
II shall sue the Santa Fe for 800
at once he told a reporter. You see
I had an engagement to go up in a
balloon at Wichita tomorrow for which
] was to get 500. The Santa Fe did
not take me there. because the en-
ployes were careless and they viii have
to pay the bill.
Yes, used to make balloon as
tensions. I made several and got one
fan that broke three ribs and nearly
did me up. The balloon was weak
and simply went to pieces and fell
about 400 feet Since coming here 1
had an engagement to go UP for the
boys at Lone Elm. but 1 got hurt and
was in the hospital when the ascension
vas made. That knocked me out Of
$50"
Asked about the dynamite cap lex-
plOsion he tells a weird story. He now
says he had 20 of the caps IN his peck
ct at the time and that he picked them
up at the Union Brick plant. He also
says that he is going to sue the lola
Portland for $4,000 and If they fight
his claim he will sue for $4,000.
In addition to these vagaries, he
has a large stock of patents and in
ventions- A steam engine that will do
twice the work Of a Corliss engine
the same size. is his best idea and he
perfected 1t while at the hospital
Likewise while there he cured a girl
Of blood poison by giving her some Of
his patent blood purifier. It cures
rheumatism. liver, kidney. and all kinds
OF diseases that arise from impure
blood He figures that ne beat Dr.
Moore Of Gas City out of good many
dollars and the hospital out of a big
1ee.
AuOCner lnNenuOn IS a gun pipe II
looks ike a pipe and can be smoked,
but a simple turn of the wrist viii
convert it into a revolver that will
shoot any rife cartridge.
SO far as known young Haughey has
never given any evidence of such hal
1uctnations before and he was believed
90 be we'll and was not even guarded
when left at the depot. The awful
shock to his nervous system caused by
the explosion which tore open his groin
As doubtless responsible for the mental
disaster which has overtaken the young
man.
Sam Fuson took Haughey's effects to
the Jail and he finds that they consist
of all sorts of things absolutely worth
less. Old string. pieces Of iron. bolts
and thousand things which no one
sane would have gathered together and
treasured From an inspection of the