Show QUEER FORMS OF INSANITY starting illusions held hold by persons othir other vise apparently sane HM york rork sun not long ago an old man looking in like a rich retired merchant or babker banker walked into the office of one of 0 the foremost publishing houses of new now yerk york and asked to ece see the head of the firm T that hat gentleman recognized hia his caller as a man who twenty years ago bad had been the junior member of a great wall wal I 1 street firm he also rem remembered em that the senior member had been one ono of Lincol ns most trusted advisers in financial matters the ex banker said you will remember that my partner who died about six six months ago was very prominent during the civil war every one in new york knows that lincoln many times sought his counsel now I 1 have in in my poss possession es sion papera a and rid memora memoranda ni a sho show w ing tapers how ow very much lincoln was indebted to him thia this in forma tion ia is of a deeply interesting and I 1 might say of a startling character I 1 thought perhaps we might make some arrangement to write a memoir memoir I 1 feel certain that it would pay besides being a fair tribute to my friend and throwing much light on history the ex banker went on to tell that he be had bad proof that his partner drew the original draft of t the he emancipation proclamation besides doing many other things of vital importance the publisher waa was delighted and made arrangements for a writer to call at the ex bankers house on a certain day and begin work the publisher talked with the ex bunker banker for an hour or more and they separated equally well pleased at the ap pointed hinted time the writer called in began eegan to discuss the forthcoming book after some lime time the ex banker said there is one ono thing I 1 have not yet told you and it is the most important of all ilia voice sank to a mysterious a erious whisper my partner assassinated mr lincoln lincow no said the writer dra drawing wing back and looking at the ox ex banker banke in in an astonished way yes said the ex banker ho be killed him and then ho he proceeded to relate a wild and rambling story the writer questioned him and was soon satisfied that he was stark mad on all other subjects he was perfectly sane on this one of his partners arthers art ners connection with the lincoln administration he was insane instances of this kind are not uncommon mon and yet it is a form of insanity that is almost incurable and is diable liable to become dangerous danger oua at tit any time it was this form of mania that possessed dougherty who murdered Ur Lloyd generally however it is content with manufacturing a 9 great hoax and stirring up an exe excitement A few years ago the police of newark lia had d an experience of thia this kind about which they decline to talk evan oven yet ono day a man of respectable appearance walked into police headquarters at newark ind and said 1 I am ft a dry goods merchant froni from chicago I 1 was passing through hero here and stopped ifft iff t the stai station fion I 1 had a valise on a scat seat with in bills in it I 1 left tho the valise on a peat sest tho the waiting room while I 1 stepped out for a moment when I 1 came back it was gone I 1 am fortunately not entirely without money as I 1 happened to have a few hundred dollars in my pocket the police were at first inclined to doubt but when tho the man told of two men who had fo followed him from chicago and had bad acted BUS sus viciously bously the chief was interested igei he ordered diligent search for the robbers circumstances came up which verified the mans story and tho the result was wm a great huo hue and cry the man went to a hotel to await devel developments ments ho spent his own money freely and anti encouraged the police in e every cry way several days passed we the atory story and the descriptions of the su supposed F posed robbers were telegraphed a all over the country they were seen hero here and there Woul Would debo be detectives in small towns made arrests the newspapers were full of it and the mystery grew each day lay fin finally a 11 y the man irom from chicago took took on one of the tile detectives aside and said to him d t perhaps I 1 should have explained one on e feature of this case sooner it may havo have an important bearing tho the fact is I 1 am jesus christ I 1 think these robbers may hayo have been the devil in disguise the detective stared at him and then called in other detectives who put the man under arrest at first it was thought though t that tho tile loss logs of the tile money had turned his head but it at fit last came out that aside from tho the fact that ho he was ft 0 chicago merchant tho the etory story was false in every particular the police were c enraged and locked tho the hoaxer in an in aay asylum I 1 u in as soon as possible e they still remember the great laugh that arose all over the country inspector byrnes tells a story of the same nature A merchant who lives here and is reported a sane as anyone could be camo came to him or one day and said that his wife was 1 being annoyed by anonymous letters from a woman who was trying to blackmail him ho went on to tell all about the contents of the letters letter sand and the inspector began to feel greatly interested in the case which he realized was difficult at length ho lie said 1 I can see bee only one way we must bring this woman face to face with your y our wife no no said the merchant cliant that would never do you see in my y wife Is a wonderful woman sh she e can read peoples thoughts she can look right into my mind and see what is going on there all aha she has to do ia is to take hold of my great toe then she reads my thoughts though ta the inspector caught on at once I 1 and remarked that this was a strong objection he ile got rid of the man as soon as possible and never saw him again As he be is still doing business it is supposed that he kelpa k hia hi ig craze to himself and careful carefully COPS y g guards bards hi feet from his wife one day a man rushed into police headquarters much excited he ile was deaf and dumb lie ile seemed almost prostrated with terror after they had bad calmed him a little he lie explained that he had bad been robbed of 1000 by some men who had thrown him down and had bad nearly choked him to death the inspector was not p pleased leased at having thi this sort of a tri trick ck played upon him so he be ert art t the he man d down 0 wn in in a chair and engaged him ia in conversation ono of the detective ser sergeants cants slipped up behind him an and jobbed bobbed a pin into his back about two inches the deaf and dumb man rose straight up and yelled great god inspector what was that that said the inspector is my cure for dumbness gill gitl lie he was gone and seems to have been permanently cured captain reilly tells of a man who called on him a short time ago with an odd complaint lie ile was a quiet gentlemanly person well advanced ip yeara years he ile said 1 I am much troubled with largo large steamboats ploughing sloughing hing up and down near my house at night they make a great whistling and blowing blow and I 1 cannot sleep for them captain reilly supposed the man lived near the water front and said Wb wheres eres your home 1 I live in seventeenth street between seventh and eighth avenue avenues said he the steamboats go up and aown own seventeenth street it is very annoying 11 it must be said capt reilly ill have it stopped the next day he set around and told the man that he had bad had had the steamboats stopped A few days afterward the man called and thanked him they have stopped entirely said he an and A I 1 can never repay you hats all right said the police officer seventeenth street is not a water thoroughfare and we never allow it you will not be disturbed any more dr douglas of the insane board of the bellvue hospital says that these cases are generally difficult detect A few days ago ft a young german woman was b brought fo 10 the asylum to be examined as toler to tier sanity they watched her night and day for five days and she neither said nor did anything out of the way the sixth day eho she told the nurse confidentially chat that gud god had thad appeared to her in in a vision and told her to go and marry I 1 a certain white haired old man who would meet her in a certain place she complained bitterly of the hardness of a lot which would compel her to waste her youthful charms but she she must do as the lord bid her |