The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-04-18
LOVER BECOMES
RAV|NG MANIAC
ON NUPTIAL EVE
Girl Crosses Continent for We'd
ding and Finds Him
Strapped to Cot
Joseph ScoIIard's Mind Gives
Way Night Before His In
tended Bride Arrives
Sweetheart, Stricken by Grief,
Says She Will Nurse Him
- Back to Reason

After a journey of 1000 miles across
the continent from her home In Med
ford, Wis, in fulhllment of promise
she had made four years ago to marry
Joseph Scollard, lover of school
mate days, Miss Mabel Kilmer arrived
in San Francisco yesterday only to
learn as she stepped from the Pull
man that her lover had suddenly be-
come violently insane. On the eve of
the joyous wedding that was to have
been. the girl sank faindng into the
arms of her mother, her happy antiei-
rstions changed TO deepest grief.
In a detention ward at the central
emergency hospital. where he lies
strapped to cot, Scollard in his de-
=lirium is unable to recognize his clos
. est friends Drs. D. D. Lustig and
Wedsworth say that sconard's collapse.
which occurred with startling sudden
ness Wednesday night after he had
made many preparations for the com
ing or his bride. was the point where
his tired nerves snapped. the result OF
aights Of deep study and worry Be
cause he was a youth OF no bad habits
they say there is a lighting chance for
: a5is recovery But even that is doubt
lul and n it comes at all It viii be
only after long and tender nursing.
. STUDIED At NIGHT
:. Seollard is IS years old and worked
as q house decorator He was intensely
a.mbitious. Not satirhed with his posi-
ton. he had taken a Correspondence
course TO ut him for becoming an en-
gineer. After his days work his
friends say he pored over these studies
FAR into the night He roomed at the
home OF his uncles. John and Garrett
Scousrd. at sos shotweu street, who
are proprietors Of a shoe store in the
p Mission
scollard formerly lived in Medford
ard there he went TO school with Miss
KiImer. who is now "a years OF age.
but was then a girl When he left four
years ego TO make his own way he
exacted from her a promise that she
would marry him. The two have cor
. responded constantly and finally it was
arranged that the girl was 70 some
with her mother. Mrs. Mary Kilmer,
10 Join him here The wedding was to
have taken place on their arrival yes
terday
When scollard retired wednesday
night he had completed all his plans
At 3 O'Clock in the morning he rose
unseen by those in the house. donned
a bathrobe and went TO the street
Policeman J. J. Kelly found him wan
dering heIplessly insane at Twentieth
and Mission streets and gently sub
dued him until he could be hurried to
the central emergency hospital There
il was found that his mind had entirely
left him
The girl and her mother were met
as they slighted from the train yes
terday by the uncles. The blow al
learning Of Scollsrd's condition was Z
dreadful one for Miss Kilner TO bear
but she insisted on being taken to the
Young mans bedside.
whether II was the magnetism ol
her presence or merely some strang.
freak Of his disease Scollard suddenl,
revived as she entered the room Their
eyes met and he recognized her Hold
ing out his arms to her he tried t.
speak The effort was too much
Again the delirium ciutched him
Friends led the girl weeping from tn.
room
Miss Kilmer and her mother ar,
staying at the home OF the scollards
Come what may and inconsolable a
her grief, she declares that she will b,
true to her lover and VIII tenderl,
strive 70 nurse him back TO health an.
The happiness that waits for him. H
viii be taken TO a private sanitariun