The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-25
Grief TOO GREAT.
Mrs. Homer A. ShuIl of Topeka
C0llapses.
Account of Loss of Shnll Sisters
Last Straw.
GOES TO ATCHISON.
Brought Back Today in Serious
Mental Condition.
Physicians Say That She Will
Recover.

Mrs. Homer A. Shull, sister-in-law
OF the Shull sisters, who were among
the victims of the steamship Columbia
disaster. Is confined at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Anthony
or NO. APT Tyler street. She is evidently
sCnering from temporary alteration.
1t is thought that the news of her sis
ters-in-law's sudden Heath had much to
90 toward placing her in this unfortu-
t h condltion, although she and her
nusDano nave not been living to-
gether for more than a month, she hay
Lns instituted divorce proceedings
against him on June Z.
MRS Shull is twenty three years old.
der maiden name is Clara Anthony
she was married to Homer Shull about
year ago and her married life was not
all that it should be, because she started
suit for a divorce from Shull on june
{ last. She accused him of treating her
with that statutory offense, extreme
cruelty, specifying that he had applied
improper names to her.
since her separation on that date Mrs.
Shull has worried more or less and .tas
beeen actually ill for the past few days.
her mother inadvertently gave her a
newspaper to read on Tuesday evening
which contained an account of the loss
of the Shull girls in the wreck of the
Columbia. On reading this she seemed
to be greatly affected, and she left home
yesterday morning without the knoWl-
edge of her folks, when as matter of
fact she ought to have remained in bed.
The members of her family knew
nothing of her wherea bouts until they
received a telephone message from
friends in AtchiSOn, named Hender-'
son, to the effect that the girl was at
their house and was acting somewhat
strange. The Hendersons were asked
by the Anthonys to look out for the
young woman and entertain her until
her father could come for her and
bring her back home and to bed
where she belonged.
Mr.. Anthony took the afternoon
train yesterday for Atchison and on
arriving at the Henderson home he
learned that the girl was out at
Forest Park with the sixteen-year-
son of the Henderson family, who had
taken her out there for the purpose
of entertaining her. Mr.. Anthony
went to the park and as soon as his
daughter saw him she became more
and more Eighty and it took the help
of a couple of men to control her. She
was finally taken to the Henderson
home where the night was passed and
brought back to Topeka this morning
by her father on the regular Atchison
train ss.ssa.s mss =-14Es-s
She raised something of a fuss at
having to get on the train at Atchison
and also on having to leave it at this
city but her father was able to get
her home, where She collapsed. It is
likely that she will be taken to a hos
pital for treatment as it is the ex-
pressed opinion of her folks and
physicians who have seen her that
this mental fit of alteration is only
temporary and has been induced by
her worry over the trouble with her
husband, the sudden news she re-
ceived of her sisters-in-law's loss in
the Columbia accident, as well as
hard study over music as she was
equipping herself to take a position
this fall in the musical department Of
a local college.
Mrs. Shulfs husband, from whom
she is seeking a divorce, is a patient in
the Santa Fee hospital suffering from
a broken shoulder which he received
in an accident.