Show IN MIDNIGHT DREAMS A Maniac Wife Attacks Her Ilus > band with Frightful Results CANTON Md May SBarney Call his wife and five children have lived in Canton for the past three years earning a livelihood by keeping a fancy goods and grocery store Recently Mrs Call has shown unmistakable signs of insanity but it was not until last night that she was considered a subject for a lunatic asylum Last night the family retired about 11 oclock At midnight Mrs Call arose and her husband noticing that she stared vacantly about the room asked her what the matter was For an answer she made a sudden savage attack upon him Being a very large woman and I much stronger than her husband she soon had him at her mercy She threw him on the floor and seized his left ear with her teeth tore it in a dreadful manner man-ner She then fastened her teeth in his breast and badly lacerated the flesh Mr Calls face was scratched out of all recognition and when the neighbors attracted at-tracted by his screams rushed in the blood was streaming from his wounds The frantic woman was overpowered and when she gazed confusedly at her husband hus-band the sight seemed to recall her tottering tot-tering reason and she suffered herself to be led into an adjoining room Early this morning she had another attack She imagined that her children had been stolen away and armed with a heavy I billet of wood she attacked three police officers who were near the house They finally succeeded in handcuffing her She was removed to an insane asylum |