Weekly journal-miner., 1909-09-01
QUEER HALLUC|NAT|ON
 POSSESSED MRS. ONEAL
Aged Woman, Who Was Lost, Was Found in Lonely Gulch
 East of Prescott.
CFrom Wednesday's DaHyl

(Fr0m Weakness
 Laboring under the delusion that she was on the road to the Jack son ranch in Kirkland valley, Mrs. James oneal, 66 years old, wandered over rough foothills and through the deep mountain gulches to the east of Prescott-hopelessly lost for nearly 24 hours.
 Yesterday afternoon she was found in a lonely gulch seven miles east of Prescott by Judge McLane, who with some effort was able to calm and quiet the temporarily deranged woman.
 Oneal's case. A quarter of a cen tury ago she was the teacher Of a private school conducted by MT. and Mrs. Solomon Jackson at Kirkland. Wednesday afternoon she was sudden ly seized with a hallucinatiOn that she must go to the Jackson ranch for dinner that evening.
 Without saying a word she quietly left her home in West Prescott and was not heard from again until she was found yesterday afternoon.
 News that the woman was lost spread like wild fire about the city yesterday morning and during the day the searching parties which had been out all night were joined by more than a hundred additional citizens who volunteered their services in the hunt for the missing woman.
 Yesterday morning after the Jour nal-Miner appeared on the streets of the city, giviRg the first news to the public at large of the disappearance of Mrs. James Oueal, there was a general awakening of the people.
 Volunteers by the score appeared and the mystery of her wanderings was cleared about . o'clock yester- day afternoon when she was found near the seven-miIe house by Judge McLane.
 Lester Ruffner reached the city on horseback and conveyed the welcome news that she had been found and would soon be in the city. This news came as a great relief as the fear was growing that Mrs. Oneal might be found seriously injured, if, in fact, death had not overtaken her. But, happily, the reverse has taken place and she is again at her home, and as remarkable as it may seem, does not show any i'll effects whatever, after nearly 24 hours of exposure and with out food or sleep.
 As early as l o'clock Wednesday morning after the sheriff's office and the city police had been notified by the husband that Mrs. OneaI was gone, Supervisor Barney Smith, Frank Burns, George Genung, Supervisor J. W. Stewart and Officer McMahOn went to West. PEesostt and began the work of hunting that locality in the work of rescue. When daylight dawn ed they were still engaged in their search but no trace whatever was found.
 The pines were searched and the boulders nearby were looked over. When the news was heralded around the city, in the early morning hours, several parties went on horseback and on foot to the western limits and each began a careful search of every imaginable place for a radius of from . two to four miles. It was unavail- /. ing, however.
 Later Miss Grace Grantz, residing i near the old baseball grounds, in- . formed several of the rescuers that the woman had been seen in that vicinity, her footprints leading te the east for a considerable distance Ev- eryone had a theory as to where the unfortunate woman had wandered.
 Judge McLane, the justice of the peace of this precinct, went to the sheriff's office and incidentally in formed George Heisler, the jailor, that he would get into the saddle and asked permission to take Dep 1ty Joe Cook s saddle horse, Sheriff Smith, Deputy Keeler and Deputy Cook being out of town. This was tt about 9:30 a. m., and a few min tes later Judge McLane passed out he city and went to the eastern end f the city limits. He informed ailor Heisler that he believed Mrs. pneal had gone east instead of west, nd this theory was supported by the Rilor as well.