The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-16
CASE Of MABEL
WISE IS STRANGE
Affected With Mind Disease
Which BaffIed Physicians
and Friends.

BERKELEY. November Ginger
ng fourteen days in a eomatose condi- 4
lion after having taken large dose OF
biehloride of mercury during an at L
tack Of melaneholia on October %,
Miss Mabel Wise, the twenty-three-
year-old daughter of w. r. Wise, a |
prominent attorney of Hilo, Hawaiian |
Islands. passed away at four o'clock
this afternoon at the Roosevelt Hos
pital.
Five months ago Miss Wise arrived |
here from the Islands on a visit to |
Mrs. w. A. Ray of 1888 Dwight way, |
a friend of the Wise family. She was
sent here to recover from serious Ill
ness which she had contracted in the
Islands and which at times brought on
serious attacks of melanchoia, during
which she experienced much trouble III
controlling her own actions, mild
form Of kIeptomania being one of the
manifestations of her illness.
In one of her spells two months ago
Miss Wise took a S. gold piece from
the purse of Mrs. Ray, and the latter,
believing the house had been entered,
notified the police. Investigation show
ed that the girl had hidden the money
during the spell and when the peculiar
conditions of the case were brought to
| light the matter was at once dropped
and the girl given over to the care OF
DR.. Frank r. Woolsey.
| During the entire two months pre-
| ceding October %, however, Miss Wise
| brooded over the matter. To Rev. l.. A.
| NcAfee of the First Presbyterian
| church she confessed that she was sub.
| iect to attacks of kleptomania and on
several occasions at the Islands she had
| uneonsciously. during spells, taken small
| trinkets from her friends. She prayed
| for spiritual aid and asserted that the
attacks of melanchola were growing
upon her.
Finally, on October %, unable to
stand the strain of her mental fortunes
over the fear that she would repeat
I,she acts in fits of illness and de
spondent over the thought that she
would never be cured from her troubles
she swallowed a dose of the poison IN
her room at the home of Mrs. Ray, ant
was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital
in a delirious condition.
All the efforts toward the girls re
coverv were futile and, after two weeks
of unconsciousness, she died yesterday
| afternoon.
Dr. Woolsey, who is an intimat
friend of the girl IS family, stated las
night that on two previous OCCASION
at the Islands Miss Wise had attempted
to end her life in fits of melancholia.
Her successful attempt at suicide ha
proved a severe shock to her compan
ions and friends, and has created a sen
sation among the members of the con
gregation of the First Presbyterian
church, among whom she was wei
| known.
Although several physicians and SUI
geons have suggested the desirabilit
of making post mortem examlnatlo
of her brain in the interests of science
the relatives of the girl are maxim
| every effort to have the matter fol-
gotten. The inquest will be held o
| Thursday. and the body will be imm'
diate1y cremated and the ashes take
| to her old home in Hawaii.
Physicians are deeply interested i
the strange mania of the girl, as
offers many peculiar differences frol
the ordinary cases of kleptomanl;
When afflicted with one of her spell
Miss Wise would steal jewelry an
sometimes articles of little value frol
Il her friends and relatives, and woul
d conceal them while still under the il
fuence of her mania She never mad
j any attempt to use the articles, an
when not under the influence could r
member only with the prof0undest e
: fort where she had concealed them.