WOOED BY A LUNATIC.

Northern Advocate, 16 February 1912, Page 2

WOOED BY A LUNATIC.

MISS KATHERINE ELKIN'S ADMIRER.

Miss Katherine Elkins, Avhose romance with the Due d'Abruzzi terminated without thr usual happy ending, has been compelled to cause the arrest of a too aident admirer, Samuel B M'Henry, a Chicago inventor, who has been committed to the Government Insane Hospital at Washington.

For two years M'Henry pursued Miss Elkins, writing, her more than two hundred letters, protesting his love and devotion. In a recent letter he told her that it was not his intention to give her an engagement ring, for he thought an aeroplane would be much nicer. If Miss Elkins would agree, he wrote, he would sail iii the aeroplane from Chicago some time next spring. He could make the journey in two days, he said, and on the third morning he wouli land at the window of her boudoir. Throughout the trip he would keep Miss Elkins informed of his whereabouts, health, and,spirits by wireless telegraphy. He followed up this letter by, a visit to Miss Elkin's house, and his strange behaviour when he was refused admission necessitated iiis arrest M'Henry told the doctors who examined him that two years ago, while walking along State-street in. Chicago a vision came to him. It was Miss Elkins. He stopped and engaged in conversation with the vision. Greetings hardly had been exchanged when a workman employed on a building near by fell Irom the fifteenth story, crashing to the sidewalk near him. "Right then and there," said McHenry, "I knew she was my guardian angel, and I determined to win her."