Year: 1872

room several times; on one occasion Miss McCabe
called out the window to . coachman; Miss
ing to choke her; told she had been sent from the
nunnery because the other nuns were jealous OF
was in her han ten months; she thought her very
insane; she twitness) was Protestant.


Cross-examination-She had no experience
with insane people before going to the 1nstltutlOn
Miss McCabe said there were noises In the hal ana
people were talking about her; one night she came
into her room and shook the cross over her, which
and he ordered her door to be locked at nine
O'Clock In the evening" once wnen sae Was rnn ne,p
the latter bit her (witness) and tore Miss Rileys
dress Miss McCabe would sit on the floor, and they
were obliged to carry her to her room; they would
lock her up till she got calmer; when she called
out to the coachman she told him to come up ana
prevent her being killed se sad 'nngs izge
Riley; she had bread hid away in black bag, and
sometimes they would find twenty or thirty slices
OF Ofm0uldy bread thus hidden away.


DOCTORS STORY.


DR.. v. Notion was next called to testify. In the
S a fs III n
1870, in Thirty fifth street; Miss McCabe told him
her story, and he believed it and sympathized with
Bishops. the latter said she had been disobedient
and had been silenced; on the way back he met
went 70 his house % and saw saw Mrs. wiliams and they
an three went to the Bishops ~ house again alter
der deluson; she told OF Father McAleer's treat
ment OF her. and this he plainly saw was one OF ner
Q. Did you ever give her poison A. No, sir;
gave her medicine to cure her.


snSna How W about o your promising Dr. Newton he
that she was insane A. never said anything OF
the kind; told him in confidence, as Mason,
sanity after seeing her. but 1t amounted to nothing;
the next time he saw her she was in o raging foam
and tod MIN she would have nothing to DO with
chronic mOnOmania he was the first to suggest her
being sent to the lnnatic asylum.


CrOss-eXaminatlOn-HeW was admitted to practice
in 1840 by the Botanic Medical Board of Cincinnati;
he went through the form Of marriage with Mrs.


o. State the circumstances. A. met her at
ThOmpson's saloon, she dropped flower and
thus formed her acquaintance and took her to q
marriage before Father Malone; thought she was
single at the time; am married now.
the divorce suit brought by her husbands A. Yes,
sir.


Q. How many witnesses testified they would not
So You "a are sa's; GatSoics 4. am CATHOLICS
0aS 0Vs What ausniMsh Was MIS- MccaDes storys She
accused Father Ryan, Father Rosiyn, Father
improper liberties with her; she told this at my
first interview; the bottle OF medicine produced
was sample OF that he was IN the habit Of giving
@. Does anybody else know the properties OF
this medicine A. 1t Is product OF my own
BRAIN


O. What is the effect Of the medicine? A. To
cure the patient


DEFINITION OF INSANITY.


Q. What is your definition OF insanity? A. In
looking up to the ceillng) is


Mr.. T0wnsend-f you are puzzled, you


Judge-If you choose to withdraw the question.
Mr. TOwnsend-I thought would relieve nim.


Witness (bringing his eyes down from the cell
marks ma 81 INSANITY, according g to my deSnition
would be (hesitating again for an instant-a want
OF proper memory.


o. Get tnat from the books9 A. No, sir; it is my
own definition.


O. What books do you consider the best authority
on insanity A. have never paid much attention
to books; ] rely on my own judgment.


O. What book do you consider the best authority
A. .DunglisOn on the Brain;n don't say 1t Is the
best: have no choice; prefer to go by my own
O. Ever hear OF Hammond's book ? A. have
o. Ever study any books on insanity before you
were admitted to practice A. may and may
not.


regularly paid anyway and got information from
o. Did you ever read any book on. insanity A.
As far as my memory serves, don't know that
Q. Did you ever hear OF any other book on
insanity than DunglisOns? A. Don't recOlect.


Q. What is your definition OF delusion A. One
NAV delude another.


One may psychologist another, and that is a
o. Is that the best definition You can giveq A.
don't know as need go any further with 1t.


q. What, in your view, is the distinction between
moral and intellectual insanity A. ! have my


o. Wel, give us your view. A. A man may be
Intellectual and insane and not moral Qaugh-
terra man may become book-worm and
deceive the public.


O. And what kind OF insanity do you call that
A. intellectual.


women OF religious feelings who believe that the
Lord Will do so and that they will be carried into
heaven in lac chariot ; Of fire. an SLauggn,terl gd,,el
world would come to an end AT such a time; he was
religiously insane.


O. How does it differ from mania A. can
hardly give the difference; there amt much any


COMING BACK TO THE FACTS OF THE CASE


q. SO your brother Mason DIR. Newton, did not
help you much A. He went back on me-


q. Don't you know that he made an accusation
to lawyer charging you with attempting to put
sane person in the insane asylum A. know
that she could not stay In has diocese unless she
took the robes she now wears; he told her she was
suspended, but but, II She, she took on her robes
and called on Archbishop McCloskey at his his
residence in Fifth avenue; we stayed about half an
grievances and her troubles In New Brunswick and
at Auburn; she told about two million dollars hav-
ing been collected for her to start a nunnery in
Auburn and how 1t had an been taken from her;
she made no mention Of Father McAleer.


O. Did you not propose to make money out of her
by lecturlngY A. poor thlng 10 make money
out Of


q. What do you say is the matter with herr A.
Chronic mOnOmania.


O. What is chronic monomania A. Any long,
strong thought on religious matters.


The use of the witness testimony, though pro-
tracted at much greater length, elected the only
important fact that his medicine good for catarrh
but had not been used as remedy for the preva-
lent horse distemper. When he had finished his
evidence the further examination was adjourned
till next Saturday


CORONER'S WORK IN NEWARK.


on the night OF he 22d Of October, while Mr.. n.
c. Bristol and A. H. Grover were driving along
Elizabeth avenue in wagon, they and the entire
rig were precipitated into a sewer opening. which
mad been left nnguarded and unllt by the con-