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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia, by
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+Title: The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia
+       A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House
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+Release Date: December 12, 2011  [eBook #38282]
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+THE HERRIGES HORROR IN PHILADELPHIA.
+
+A Full History of the Whole Affair.
+
+A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild
+Beast for Twenty Years,
+As Alleged,
+in His Own Mother's and Brother's House.
+
+The Most Fiendish Cruelty of the Century.
+
+Illustrated with Reliable Engravings,
+Drawn Specially for This Work.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by C. W.
+ALEXANDER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the
+Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
+
+
+
+
+THE HERRIGES HORROR.
+
+  "Man's inhumanity to man
+  Makes countless thousands morn."
+
+
+Every now and then the world is startled with an event of a like character
+to the one which has just aroused in the city of Philadelphia the utmost
+excitement, and which came near producing a scene of riot and even
+bloodshed.
+
+John Herriges is the name of the victim, and for an indefinite period of
+from ten to twenty years has been confined in a little cagelike room and
+kept in a condition far worse than the wild animals of a menagerie.
+
+What adds an additional phase of horror to the case of this unfortunate
+creature is the fact that he was thus confined in the same house with his
+own brother and mother. To our minds this is the most abhorrent feature of
+the whole affair.
+
+We can imagine how a stranger, or an uncle, or an aunt possessed with the
+demon of avarice could deliberately imprison the heir to a coveted estate
+in some out of the way room or loft of a large building where the victim
+would be so far removed from sight and sound as to prevent his groans and
+tears being heard or seen. But how a brother and, Merciful Heaven, a
+mother could live in a shanty of a house year after year with a brother,
+and son shut up and in the condition in which the officers of the law
+found poor John Herriges, is more than we can account for by any process
+of reasoning. It only shows what perverted human nature is capable of.
+
+
+THE HOUSE OF HORROR.
+
+The house in which lived the Herriges family is a little two storied frame
+building or more properly shanty, rickety and poverty stricken in its
+appearance, more resembling the abodes of the denizens of Baker street
+slums than the home of persons of real wealth as it really is. It stands
+on the northeast corner of Fourth and Lombard streets, in Philadelphia.
+
+Immediately to the north of it is an extensive soap boiling establishment,
+while directly adjoining it in the east are some frame shanties still
+smaller and more delapidated than itself, and which, belonging to the
+Herriges also, were rented by Joseph Herriges, the accused, for a most
+exhorbitant sum. To the credit of the occupants of these shanties, we must
+say that by means of whitewash they have made them look far preferable to
+that of their landlord--at least in appearance.
+
+On the north of the soap boiling establishment referred to stretches the
+burial ground of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, with its hundreds of
+monuments and green graves, while on the opposite side of Fourth street
+lies the burial ground of the Old Pine Street Church, with its almost
+numberless dead.
+
+The writer of this recollects years ago, when a boy, often passing and
+repassing the Herriges house, and noticing on account of its forlorn
+appearance and the comical Dutch Pompey which stood upon the wooden
+pedestal at the door to indicate the business of a tobacconist.
+
+How little he thought when contemplating it, that a human being languished
+within its dingy wooden walls, in a condition worse than that of the
+worst-cared-for brutes.
+
+A fact in connection with this case is remarkable, which is this. On a
+Sabbath morning there is no one spot in the whole city of Philadelphia,
+standing on which, you can hear so many different church bells at once, or
+so many different choirs singing the praises of Almighty God. And on every
+returning Sunday the poor prisoner's ears drank in the sacred harmony. God
+knows perhaps at such times the angels ministered to him in his dismal
+cage, sent thither with sunshine that could not be shut out by human
+monsters. Think of it, reader, a thousand recurring Sabbaths found the
+poor young imbecile growing from youth to a dreadfully premature old age.
+The mind staggers to think of it. Could we trace day by day the long
+wearisome hours of the captive's life, how terrible would be the journey.
+We should hear him sighing for the bright sun light that made the grave
+yard green and clothed all the monuments in beautiful flowers. How he
+would prize the fragrance of a little flower, condemned as he was to smell
+nothing but the dank, noisome effluvia of the soap boiler's factory.
+
+Hope had no place in his cramped, filthy cage. No genius but that of
+Dispair ever found tenement in the grimed little room.
+
+But though so long, oh, so long, Liberty came at last, and the pining boy,
+now an old man, was set free, through the agency of a poor, but noble
+woman, Mrs. Gibson, who had the heart to feel and the bravery to rescue
+from his hellish bondage the unfortunate.
+
+
+THE GIBSON'S HISTORY OF THE AFFAIR.
+
+On the 1st of June 1870 Thos. J. Gibson and his mother rented the frame
+house 337 Lombard Street from Joseph Herriges. The house adjoined Herriges
+cigar store. Mr. Hoger, a shoemaker, living next door to Mrs. Gibson's,
+told her at the time she moved into the house, that she would see a crazy
+man in Herriges house and not to be afraid of him. Mrs. Charnes, living
+next door but one, for seventeen years, laughed at her, when she asked
+about the crazy man living locked up in Herriges house, as though making
+light of the whole matter.
+
+
+VERBATIM COPY OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN JOSEPH HERRIGES AND THE GIBSONS.
+
+This Contract and Agreement is that the rent of sixteen dollars per month
+is to be paid punctually in advance each and every month hereafter, and if
+the terms of this contract is not complied with I will leave the house and
+give up the possession to the lessor or his representatives.
+
+  THOS. J. GIBSON.
+
+Received of Ann Gibson sixteen dollars for one month's rent in advance
+from June 1. To 30 1870 rent to begin on 1. June and end on the 30.
+
+Rented May 27 1870
+
+  J. HERRIGES.
+
+
+THE DISCOVERY.
+
+On Monday, June 14th, Mr. Gibson's little sister was sent up-stairs to get
+ready for school, and on going to the window she was frightened by seeing
+a man looking through the crevices of an upper window in Herriges house,
+which window was in the second story. This window was closely barred with
+pieces of plank from top to bottom.
+
+The man was mumbling and singing and making strange and singular noises.
+The little girl came running down stairs in the utmost terror exclaiming:
+
+"Oh, mother! mother! there is a man up in that room! I saw him poke his
+nose through the boards just like a dog!"
+
+Being busy, Mrs. Gibson did not go up at this moment to verify the child's
+statement, but when she did find time she went up. By that time the man
+had withdrawn his nose from the window, but shortly afterwards she caught
+a glimpse of something that she thought was the hand of a human being,
+covered with filth, resting against the space between the bars.
+
+At this moment Mrs. Gibson saw Mrs. Herriges, John's mother, in the yard,
+and called to the prisoner, saying:
+
+"What are you there for? Why don't you pull off the boards and get out?"
+
+The man made some response; but in such indistinct tones of voice that
+Mrs. Gibson could not understand what he said. It was enough to convince
+her however, that there was a human being confined in the room.
+
+Mrs. Gibson hoped by thus continually talking to the prisoner to get the
+mother to say something about it, but the old woman did not notice her at
+all, but after doing something about the yard went into the house.
+
+On Tuesday morning at about 3 o'clock, Mr. Gibson was awakened by noises
+at the same window. He at once arose and dressed himself and called his
+mother up and told her he heard some one at Herriges window. These noises
+were mumbling and singing and a strange noise as though some one were
+clapping his hands together.
+
+At this time Mr. Gibson got out upon his own shed which leans down toward
+Herriges fence, and would have got up to the prisoner's window to tear off
+the bars and get the man out but his mother would not allow him to do it.
+
+It is not more than eleven or twelve feet from Mr. Gibson's window to the
+window of the little cage like room in which John Herriges was confined,
+so when Mr. Gibson got down to the edge of the shed he was not more than
+about three or four feet from the prisoner's window.
+
+Listening a while he could shortly distinguish words being uttered by the
+prisoner. Among them were these:
+
+"Murdering! Murdering! George! George! they want to get me out of the
+way."
+
+Mr. Gibson then spoke to him saying:
+
+"Why don't you try and get out of there?"
+
+The prisoner instantly replied:
+
+"I'll promote you! I'll promote you!"
+
+Mr. Gibson remained upon the shed from three o'clock until seven in the
+morning, while his mother stood at the window.
+
+Being fully satisfied that there was a poor miserable man kept confined in
+the little room of Herriges house, deprived of his liberty, and not only
+that but that he was kept in a filthy condition to judge from the horrible
+stench that issued from the window, the watcher resolved to report the
+fact to the authorities.
+
+
+REPORT TO THE POLICE.
+
+The same morning Mr. Gibson went up to the Union Street Station House and
+reported what he had seen and heard. But instead of investigating the
+affair, the lieutenant told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Central Station
+House at Fifth and Chestnut and report the matter to lieutenant Charles
+Thomas in charge there.
+
+Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas replied:
+
+"Excuse me, but you tell the Lieutenant down at the Station House, that I
+cannot open an insane asylum."
+
+At this moment the Mayor chanced to pass down through the basement, and
+the matter being called to his attention, he said to Lieutenant Thomas:
+
+"Send Reeder down to investigate it."
+
+Lieutenant Thomas replied:
+
+"Had I not better attend to it myself?"
+
+Mr. Gibson then left the office.
+
+The officers came down about four o'clock that afternoon.
+
+About an hour before the arrival of the officers, Mr. Gibson and his
+mother went into the cigar store, kept by Herriges.
+
+"Good afternoon," said Mr. Gibson.
+
+"Good afternoon," replied Herriges.
+
+"What have you got that man locked up in that room for?" asked Mrs.
+Gibson.
+
+"Is that any of your business?" asked Herriges abruptly.
+
+"Well, I don't know, that it is, but I would like to know what he is
+penned up there for?"
+
+"Does my brother annoy you?" inquired Herriges.
+
+"Well, yes, he frightens my children," replied Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"You must have very funny kind of children to what other people have"
+sneeringly remarked Herriges.
+
+"I don't know that they are any funnier than anybody else's children" said
+Mrs. Gibson.
+
+Herriges then turned upon Mrs. Gibson and said in a very provoking manner.
+
+"Why, it is a wonder, he don't frighten you, too."
+
+Mr. Gibson, taking it up for his mother, then said:
+
+"Yes, he did frighten my mother very much last night."
+
+"Well, if my brother frightens you so, you had better move out of the
+house, as quick as you can" said Herriges.
+
+"I will, if you only will give me back what money is coming to me" said
+Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"No, I won't give you any money back" answered Herriges.
+
+"Well," said Mrs. Gibson, "I can't afford to pay you a month's rent in
+advance, and then move some where else and pay another month's rent in
+advance too."
+
+Herriges then began to talk so offensively insolent, that Mr. Gibson and
+his mother were obliged to leave the store. They at once went down town to
+see about another house, for Mrs. Gibson had been rendered so exceedingly
+nervous by the startling events of the past few days that she was almost
+sick.
+
+By the time Mr. Gibson and his mother had returned home from their house
+hunting, the officers had arrived, and brought the insane man down stairs.
+
+After that the back of Herriges house was shut tightly up. The next day
+the officers came down again and removed the insane man in a carriage to
+the Central Station.
+
+During the time that Gibsons lived in the house, if Mr. Gibson at any time
+got up to drive a nail in the fence or side of the house to fasten a
+clothes line to, or, as on occasion to fix wire to bold stove pipe,
+Herriges would come out in a hurry and order him to get down and not do
+it; saying it would destroy the property; but as Mr. Gibson now thinks to
+prevent him getting near the window of the room where John was.
+
+
+THE EFFORT TO GET THE GIBSONS AWAY.
+
+After the discovery of the affair, on the following Thursday June 16th a
+sister of Herriges, Mrs. Mary Ann Hurtt came down to Mr. Gibson's house.
+
+"Good morning, Mrs. Gibson," said she.
+
+"Good morning, ma'm," replied Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"I am Joseph's sister."
+
+"Do you mean Joseph Herriges?" asked Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"Yes," answered she, "and I want to know, whether you can't move away from
+here? I will give you every cent of the rent you have paid, back again. I
+will make you a handsome present besides, and reward you and be a friend
+to you as long as you live. Perhaps when you get old you will need a
+friend. I will do this if you will not appear against Joseph."
+
+Mrs. Gibson answered:
+
+"Charity begins at home, and it is not likely you will befriend me, if you
+couldn't befriend your own brother, fastened up there in that cage of a
+room!"
+
+At this moment Mr. Gibson came in, and his mother whispered to him:
+
+"That's that Herriges sister in the corner there."
+
+Some neighbor in the room said to Mrs. Hurtt:
+
+"There is that young man," referring to Mr. Gibson.
+
+Mrs. Hurtt then said to him:
+
+"Can't you drop that case?"
+
+"No," said Mr. Gibson, "it is in the hands of the authorities."
+
+Mrs. Hurtt said:
+
+"Then move out of the neighborhood, and I will pay you back what rent you
+have paid, and will make you a handsome present, if you will leave the
+city."
+
+"No," said Mr. Gibson, "I would not leave the city for ten thousand
+dollars."
+
+He then whispered to his mother:
+
+"You keep her here till I go out and get an officer to arrest her."
+
+He then went out; and finding an officer on the corner, told him the
+facts, but the officer said he could do nothing in the matter.
+
+Mr. Gibson then started up to the Mayor's Office, but he met the Mayor in
+Fifth Street above Walnut, to whom he stated the facts. The Mayor walked
+along to the Office with him, and there told Lieutenant Thomas to have a
+warrant issued for the arrest of the sister, who had thus endeavored to
+get Mr. Gibson out of the way. Mr. Gibson having made the charge under
+oath, the warrant issued.
+
+When he returned, Mrs. Hurtt had left his house and gone into her
+brother's house. He stood on the pavement awhile to see if she would come
+out. She did not do so, and then he went to the door and asked where that
+lady was who had been in his house that morning about that business.
+
+Old Mrs. Herriges said:
+
+"Come in and see her."
+
+"No," said he, "let her come out here."
+
+She then came to the door, and Mr. Gibson told Officer Koniwasher to
+arrest her, that there was a warrant in Lieutenant Thomas' hands and that
+was on his order. Koniwasher told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Station
+House, get the warrant from Lieutenant Thomas, bring it down and he would
+wait till he came back. Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas gave the
+warrant to Mr. Gibson and sent an Officer along with him, who came back
+with Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Hurtt was arrested.
+
+In about half an hour the party started back to the Central Station
+accompanied by Joseph Herriges, the brother, who said to Mr. Gibson:
+
+"Just look at the trouble you have brought on me now!" to which he made no
+reply.
+
+At this moment the mob began to yell out:
+
+"Lynch him! Knife him! Kill him!"
+
+Herriges said to the Officers: "Officers protect me!"
+
+The Officers closed round them to protect them, and when a car came, put
+the whole party in it and so reached the Central Station House, where Mrs.
+Hurtt denied in the most positive manner having ever said anything on the
+subject to Mr. Gibson more, than offering him whatever rent was coming to
+him, in fact she denied having made any other proposition about the matter
+at all.
+
+At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from _The Day_ newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: "_Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years_."
+
+"The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. _That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify._"
+
+"Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation."
+
+The friends of Herriges have asserted that the matter of his brother's
+being kept locked up in the little room was made public by the Gibsons for
+malicious purposes or to obtain money from him; because the neighbors all
+around knew for at least seventeen years past that this insane man had
+been kept in the house and that none of them had ever complained about it.
+
+So far from this being true, the Gibsons utterly refused all offers of
+reward made by the Sister to induce them to leave the city and drop the
+case of Herriges. Moreover they not only did not owe any rent but as will
+be seen from the receipt already given paid their month's rent in advance
+fully and honestly. Still further after Herriges refused to give them back
+what rent would be coming to them, if they removed, they secured another
+house down town, and moved away from the one they rented of Herriges,
+though they did not give up the key till the full month had expired. Mrs.
+Gibson and her son told us they did this because of Herriges refusal to
+refund them the rent that would be due them.
+
+And Mrs. Gibson who is a lady of nervous temperament, assured us that her
+constant dread was that at some time this maniac or idiot would break out
+of his little cagelike room and get into her house and kill herself and
+her children. And it requires no fervid imagination to believe this, when
+it is remembered that her window and that of the crazy man were not more
+than twelve feet apart with a shed between them extending seven or eight
+feet. Then in the day time she would see him handling the wooden bars at
+his window and glaring out between the slats, while in the stillness of
+the night she would hear him mumbling, cursing and making noises as she
+thought like some one trying to get loose. If that would not terrify a
+mother lying alone with her little children at night we hardly know what
+would.
+
+_The Above is a correct Narrative._
+
+  THOMAS J. GIBSON, Jr.
+
+
+THE VICTIM RELEASED.
+
+When the Policemen arrived for the purpose of releasing John Herriges,
+they found that great efforts had been made to cleanse him as well as the
+room in which he had been kept. They at once took the captive down stairs
+and out in the street where the light seemed to stun him. Joseph Herriges
+was now arrested and taken to the Central Station, where he was bound over
+in the sum of five thousand dollars to answer the charge of thus inhumanly
+treating his unfortunate brother. John was, on the evidence of Doctors
+Mayers and Betts sent to the Insane Department at Blockley Almshouse.
+
+
+THE HOUSE MOBBED.
+
+Of course it spread like wildfire in the neighborhood of Herriges house
+that the police had visited it, and found there a man who had been
+confined for nearly his whole life-time in a little cage of a room. In
+consequence a great multitude of curious people at once collected on
+Fourth Street and Lombard Street, and as the story was repeated from mouth
+to mouth, a feeling of anger spread through the assembled hundreds that
+quickly broke out into violent demonstrations.
+
+Hoots and yells and curses were indulged in, and such cries as:
+
+"Burn the d----d house down! Bring out the infernal wretches! Lynch them!
+Tear them out! Hang them! Poor fellow! how horrible to keep him that way!
+Down with the shanty boys!"
+
+At this moment some person in the midst of the mob hurled a stone at the
+wooden image that stands at the entrance to the store. This was like a
+spark in a train of gunpowder, and amidst a shower of missiles a rush was
+made for the apparently fated dwelling.
+
+But at this juncture some one shouted out:
+
+"Back! back! there's only old women in the house! He's run away for the
+police!"
+
+This stopped the rush, and without doubt saved the building from speedy
+demolition at the hands of the enraged mob.
+
+Meantime Herriges himself had walked out of the house and started up
+Fourth Street, on his way to the station-house to obtain a force of
+policemen to protect his property from the threatened attack. He was at
+once discovered and recognized by the infuriated people, who with one
+accord dashed after him with frightful yells and cries of
+
+"Kill him! Run him up to the lamp-post!"
+
+It was about this time that several gentlemen connected with the newspaper
+press arrived on the scene for the purpose of obtaining particulars of the
+case.
+
+On entering the dwelling, Herriges' mother, a very old; and as the
+reporters describe her, "weasaned faced woman," seized one of them and
+begged him to save her.
+
+"Oh, save me! for the mob is throwing bricks and stones at the house! They
+are going to burn it down, and burn us all alive in it."
+
+She was assured that she would be protected, and that no harm would befal
+her; and a special messenger was despatched to the police station to have
+a powerful posse of men hurried down to save the place. Each moment the
+mob was growing larger and increasing in the violence of its
+demonstrations, and had not the force of police arrived shortly after
+this, there is no doubt but that the house would have been torn completely
+down, and perhaps burned. Happily, however, such a result was averted by
+prompt action on the part of the authorities.
+
+The newspaper gentlemen, thereupon, had ample opportunity to proceed with
+their visit of inquiry.
+
+A respectable looking woman led the way up stairs ascending which required
+more than ordinary effort, not only on account of their wretched
+condition, but also on account of the frightful stench that came from the
+late abode of the imbecile.
+
+This person informed the visitors that two rooms had been set apart for
+the use of John. The "parlor" as she called the den on the first or ground
+floor was entirely destitute of any furniture but the remains of an
+ancient sofa, a regular skeliton with nothing left but the wooden slats.
+Over this was a horribly filthy quilt. This was the imbecile's "parlor."
+His "bed-room" was the cage to which reference has already been made. The
+scanty glimmering light that forced its way in between the wooden slats
+nailed across the window was just sufficient to show the efforts that had
+been so hurriedly but abortively made to cleanse the den.
+
+Most prominent was a bed freshly placed there and covered with a middling
+good coverlet. One of the gentlemen remarked as he noticed this.
+
+"Ah, I see you have put a bed in here. There was none when John was taken
+out."
+
+"Oh, yes it was," said the woman quickly. "The bed was always here, but we
+have put a spread over it. We did not do any thing else."
+
+"Yes you have done something else," was the rejoinder. "You scraped away
+several inches of filth off this floor, and whitewashed and scrubbed it,
+it is all wet yet."
+
+"Oh well," said she, "the poor old woman down there was not able to keep
+him clean at all. She is eighty years old and the most devoted loving
+mother possible, feeding him with her own hands and providing for him
+every delicacy, like strawberries and such things as that."
+
+"Well, now what was the reason you had John confined here?"
+
+"John studied too hard when he tried to get into the High School and
+turned his brain. When he was first wrong his brother Joseph, who is the
+kindest hearted man alive, had him taken to a public institution; but his
+mother got uneasy about him and he was brought home again; and Dr. Goddard
+was called in to attend him. The doctor said he needed nothing but
+kindness and skillful nursing, which they gave him with an affection
+beautiful to behold."
+
+In reply to an inquiry of how long the poor fellow had been locked up in
+this room, she said:
+
+"He wasn't locked up here at all. He had the range of the whole house."
+
+"How long has he been out of his mind?" asked a gentleman.
+
+"Somewhere about eighteen years."
+
+"Are you a relation of his?"
+
+"Oh, no, I am only a neighbor, and came in to stay with his poor old
+mother, who is nearly scared to death."
+
+"Has he any relatives except his mother and brother?"
+
+"Yes, he has four sisters."
+
+About this time Joseph Herriges, nearly dead with fright, returned with
+the police force, and expressed great gratification at the presence of the
+reporters, in order that they might tell his part of the story, and thus
+have _reliable_ facts to give to the public instead of a pack of lies told
+by the neighbors. He said:
+
+"John, when a boy, was very intellectual, and I had resolved to give him a
+good education, so I got him into the public school, also into a night
+school, and had him taught penmanship as well as cigar-making.
+
+"Once when he attended a lecture he fell as he came down stairs, and
+struck his head such a violent blow that he never was the same boy
+afterwards, but gradually lost his mind. That has been about twelve years
+ago."
+
+It will be noticed here that the woman had previously stated eighteen
+years. This was the first discrepancy. Herriges continued:
+
+"I took him to the almshouse, where he was under Dr. Robert Smith's care
+for a month. Then his mother and his sister _here_ visited every day."
+[Here Herriges pointed to the woman who had positively said she was only a
+_neighbor_.] "At last, to please mother, I brought him home and called in
+Doctor Gardner, who said, after a long attendance, that he could do him no
+good. I have devoted my life to that boy, and washed him every day, and
+attended to his wants whenever I attended to my own, and combed and fed
+him."
+
+"Then how is it that his hair and beard have become just like felted cloth
+with filth, and how is it that he is covered from head to foot with
+vermin?"
+
+"What! how!" exclaimed Herriges with a decidedly mixed expression on his
+countenance. "Was there vermin? Well I don't know how he got them. I never
+saw any that's certain."
+
+"Was he so very violent that you kept him locked up in this cage?"
+
+"Oh, no, John was always as gentle as a lamb."
+
+"Then what are those iron and wooden slats at that window for?"
+
+"Oh, well, we were afraid that he might take a fit some time and get into
+the street and say strange things."
+
+At this juncture of the garbled narrative, Herriges became flurred, and
+begged the reporters to do him justice, repeating the words.
+
+"Now you will do me justice, won't you? You see they say I have kept him
+imprisoned in this way to get his share of the property. He has not got a
+cent in the world, for this house is only the property of mother during
+her life time. It is all she has and when she dies it will have to be
+divided among the whole six of us."
+
+"But look here," interrupted a gentlemen of the party, "what about those
+houses on Lombard street and the houses on Fourth street?"
+
+"Oh, those are all my own," answered he. "I worked and earned them
+myself."
+
+The questioner replied.
+
+"But you told me this morning that your father died in Oregon and left all
+his property to you alone. How do you make that agree with this last
+statement?"
+
+"Don't interrupt me. You confuse me, and put me out. I am trying to tell a
+straight story and you throw me out. I'll tell you again exactly all."
+
+He then repeated his former statement and wound up with a fresh appeal to
+be done justly by; which seemed in his mind to mean that his statement
+alone should be given to the public. But he was told that Mrs. Gibson's
+story would be published as well as his own, whereupon another sister,
+who had just arrived on the scene, pronounced Mrs. Gibson a liar, and
+added her solicitations to have that part of the history suspended.
+
+On a subsequent visit, the sister who had represented herself as only a
+neighbor, repeated the statements that been previously made by her and her
+brother with a few more variations and contradictions. For instance she
+remarked that the papers said John was a boy of eight years old when he
+was first put in the cage, or little room, "Now that is false, for he was
+between twenty-three and twenty-four when he went insane." On the previous
+day she had said that he went crazy when he was trying to get into the
+High School.
+
+
+TRYING TO GET GIBSON AWAY.
+
+On June 16th, Alderman Kerr gave one of the sisters, Mary Ann Hurtt, who
+resides at 707 Girard Avenue, a hearing on the charge of tampering with
+the witness, Mrs. Gibson's son.
+
+Mr. Thomas J. Gibson, Jr., residing at 337 Lombard Street, testified that
+Mrs. Hurtt came to his house and asked him whether he could not drop that
+case and get out of the way, so as not to testify, saying that if he would
+she would pay him back all the rent he had paid her for the place he was
+occupying, and would make him a handsome present besides that.
+
+The whole statement was most vehemently denied by the accused, who,
+however, was held in five hundred dollars bail to answer the charge at
+court. Her brother Joseph entered the required security.
+
+
+THE VICTIM REMOVED TO THE ALMSHOUSE.
+
+As soon as Alderman Kerr made the requisite order to that effect, the poor
+imbecile who had been shut up in his cage for so long a time was placed in
+a carriage and taken promptly to Blockley Almshouse.
+
+The attendants and officials who received him aver that in all their
+experience they have never seen such a heart-rending sight as was John
+Herriges when brought to the institution. And this, it will be
+recollected, was after the poor wretch had been submitted to the partial
+cleansing that his relatives gave him immediately after the visit paid
+them by Mrs. Gibson in relation to the captive.
+
+At once, upon his arrival at the hospital of the almshouse, he was
+stripped of the slight filthy salt-bag petticoat, and his body submitted
+to a thorough but careful scrubbing, after which the flesh was, with equal
+care, rubbed until the natural color of the skin began to make its
+appearance through the deep stain of accumulated filth of so many years.
+
+Next his hair was clipped short, after which fully half an inch of solid
+filth and dirt, as hard and tough as leather, was scraped away from his
+scalp. After all this was done, which occupied a long time, he was dressed
+in a clean suit of the material used for the clothing of the inmates and
+placed in a cell, in which, also, he was securely locked at night, to
+prevent him harming either himself or others. But this was ascertained to
+be entirely unnecessary, as the poor fellow was as docile and quiet as a
+lamb.
+
+After his face was cleaned off, the peculiar pallor of his countenance,
+resulting from the great length of time he was imprisoned in his noisome
+cell, was almost unearthly and strangely striking.
+
+The muscles of his body were like so many flabby strings, from being never
+brought into exercise, rendering him very feeble, though naturally, to
+judge from the size of his frame, he would be a man of great physical
+strength.
+
+At first, after his release, his favorite position was a kind of sitting
+squatting posture, with the hands resting upon the knees, the back bent,
+and head hanging down.
+
+If ordered to get up, he would do so promptly, but rather slowly, as he
+was obliged to remove his hands from his knees and place them on the back
+of his hips. He would get up and stand like a bent over statue.
+
+"Now then, John, walk along."
+
+At this order he would shuffle forward for a step or two, or about the
+length of the cage in which he had been confined, and then manifest a
+desire to turn round and shuffle back, like a sentry walking his beat.
+
+An attendant took his arm, however, saying:
+
+"Come, John, walk straight now; lean on me."
+
+This kindness appeared strange to him, and he made great efforts to
+straighten up and walk the same way as his friend, looking meanwhile
+surprised, perhaps to think he could get so far, and that some one could
+speak kindly to him.
+
+His appetite was good, and he would eat whatever was given him with
+evident relish. In fact he could be compared to nothing more than an
+automaton, a human machine, as will be seen from the following
+conversation which a gentlemen held with him.
+
+"John, where is your right arm?"
+
+"There," was the reply, as he turned his head and looked at his arm,
+partially raising the member.
+
+"Raise your left arm."
+
+Instantly he would raise it.
+
+"Hold your head back."
+
+He did it.
+
+"That will do, John, now open your mouth."
+
+It was done.
+
+
+[Illustration: The Policeman releasing the Victim from his cage.
+
+Der Polizist befreit das unglückliche Opfer aus seinem Käfig.]
+
+
+"Shut it."
+
+"John, where are you living now?"
+
+Of this question he took no notice.
+
+"Do you like to live here?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Where did you live before you came here?"
+
+No answer, but a look of half inquiry flitted over John's face.
+
+"Did you not live at Fourth and Lombard Streets?"
+
+"Oh, yes."
+
+"For how long a time?"
+
+No reply, but the same thoughtful look as before.
+
+A variety of other questions was put to the imbecile, to all of which he
+invariably gave quick and correct replies, provided the reply could be
+made in monosyllables. But if it required an answer of several words he
+would remain silent, or apparently trying to think what he should say.
+
+After several days residence at the almshouse he began to lose a
+considerable amount of his former animal stupidity, and if ordered to do
+anything in the same way as when he was first admitted to the institution,
+he would not do it at all, but remain perfectly motionless. This shows
+that his mental feebleness results not so much from natural causes as the
+artificial ones of his long confinement, and a withering isolation from
+the outer world. He will never be himself again, for that would be
+impossible, but it is quite likely that he will recover so far as to
+permit him to enjoy the ease and have that care of kind attendants that
+his share of the property will command.
+
+Comment on the conduct of those relatives from whose charge he has been
+taken is entirely unnecessary. If they have consciences, their feelings
+must be of a rather terrible nature. One thing is certain; poor John will
+be taken good care of in the future, and in Furman Sheppard, Esq., he has
+a friend who will not allow justice to be hoodwinked.
+
+
+A VISIT TO THE VICTIM AT THE ALMSHOUSE HOSPITAL.
+
+Yesterday, in company with Detective Charles Miller, who had charge of the
+investigation of the circumstances of the case, we made a special visit to
+John Herriges, the subject of this sketch.
+
+When we reached the institution, the usual ball, which is periodically
+given to the patients in the insane department, was at its full height,
+and John's nurse, an active and intelligent young man, supposing that the
+happiness and hilarity of the scene would have a beneficial effect upon
+his charge, wheeled him in his chair to the ball room. John seemed
+astonished somewhat, and the excitement took quick effect upon him, making
+him very loquacious, although the words he uttered were so unconnected as
+to be entirely incoherent.
+
+Finding this to be the case, the attendant wheeled his patient to a quiet
+part of the building, where we had a long interview with him. But John
+remained excited, and talked almost constantly about McMullin, the
+veritable William of the Fourth Ward, of murders and burglars, and
+coffins, and kindred subjects. We asked him a number of questions, but
+apart from now and then giving us a semi-intelligent glance, he took no
+notice whatever, until in the midst of it the attendant stepped suddenly
+to one of the insane patients, who, manifesting unusual excitement,
+required prompt securing. This was done by the attendant passing his arms
+round the man, drawing his hands forcibly down and securing them behind,
+as he coaxed him along to a cell.
+
+John Herriges' face instantly lighted up with great animation as he
+exclaimed, pointing to the two:
+
+"Ha! that's the way they kill them, that's it, Mully, Mully good
+fellow!--he! he! he!"
+
+He constantly has this idiotic laugh.
+
+From a gentleman at the institution we gleaned the following in relation
+to the victim and his family, which he assured us was the correct history
+of the affair. In some essential points it seems to conflict with the
+sister's statement made to the reporter of the Sunday Dispatch.
+
+The father's name was Bernard Herriges, who went to Oregon in 1843, and
+settled in Walumet Valley, and there died and left land worth about $400,
+in the executorship of Mr. Glasson and Dr. Theophilus Degan. The will is
+recorded in the probate court of Clarkamas County, Oregon, and explicitly
+directs what is to be done with the property. By some means or other no
+claim was established, and the land referred to was occupied by General
+Abeneathy for twenty years. This information was given in reply to a
+letter that was written in 1868, by Hon. Leonard Myers, member of
+Congress, and sent by him to Oregon.
+
+The mother's original name was Barbara Miller, and she is now in her
+seventy-ninth year. The oldest son, Joseph, is fifty-six. The sisters
+names are Mary Ann, Sophia, Hannah and Ann Margaret. This gentleman states
+that John, the victim, is now forty-five years old, that he was
+twenty-five when he received the injury that resulted in his imbecility,
+and that consequently the confinement has extended more or less over the
+period of twenty years. On the night of the great fire at Vine Street, in
+1850, he received his hurt as he was returning from a lecture, by being
+pushed over a railing down into an area by the rushing crowd, striking his
+head violently in his descent.
+
+In 1847, the family received a letter from Caspar Rudolph, in Oregon,
+asking them to give him a power of attorney to take control of the
+father's possessions there. This document was drawn up by the Hon. William
+D. Baker, signed by all the members of the family, approved before
+Alderman Benn and sent out to Rudolph.
+
+Great praise is due to Doctor Richardson of the Almshouse for the speedy
+improvement his careful treatment has made in John, who is, beyond doubt,
+naturally a very powerful man, has a fine frame and a capitally shaped
+head. But it is certain he will never recover from his imbecility.
+
+The officials in charge of his case from the commencement, also deserve
+great praise for their faithful attention to their disagreeable duty,
+which could not have been performed in a more satisfactory manner.
+Particularly is this true of Officers Coniwasher and Reeder, Lieutenant
+Thomas and Detective Charles Miller.
+
+
+[Illustration: Correct Drawing of the Herriges House at Fourth and
+Lombard. The scene of the Horror.
+
+Genaue Zeichnung des Herriges Hauses an der Vierten und Lombard Straße.
+Die Scene des Schreckens.]
+
+
+JOSEPH HERRIGES' ACCOUNT.
+
+Since going to press with this history an account of the affair has
+appeared in _THE DAY_, and which we have inserted here with the desire to
+place before the public whatever may be favorable to Mr. Herriges in the
+matter of his brother's confinement. We deem this a matter of mere
+justice.
+
+The reporter having called on Mr. Herriges the following occurred during
+the interview.
+
+We found Joseph Herriges a sensible, gentlemanly and educated person;
+having nothing to conceal, he at once entered into conversation concerning
+his brother; he informed us that John is his only brother, and for whom he
+has always entertained a brotherly affection; in his youthful days he was
+sent to school and educated at Joseph's expense; as a schoolboy he was, in
+literary attainments, about on an average with those attending school at
+that time. It was the elder brother's intention to fit him for the high
+school, and with that intention he not only sent him to the public
+schools, but also sent him to a night school, that he might more rapidly
+advance in his studies. As evidence of the fact, Mr. Herriges brought
+forth an old time receipt-book and showed us the following receipt:
+
+Received January 12, 1838, of Mr. Joseph Herriges, five dollars in full
+for one quarter's tuition of brother John B. Herriges, at evening school,
+including light and stationary.
+
+  $5.          R. O. R. LOUETT.
+
+Reporter--When did the insanity of John begin to develop itself?
+
+Mr. Herriges--It first began to show itself when he was twenty years of
+age. At that time he had only temporary fits of abstraction, which grew
+worse from time to time, until, at the age of twenty-six, he became wholly
+insane, and, what is unusual in insanity, he would never eat anything
+unless fed like an infant. Hunger could not tempt him to eat, nor thirst
+to drink, any more than it could tempt the infant of three months to eat
+or drink without assistance.
+
+Reporter--Why did you not attempt a cure in accordance with the usual
+method?
+
+Mr. Herriges--I did. I became acquainted with Dr. R. K. Smith, who
+informed that a cure might be effected, and in accordance with his
+suggestions, I sent him to the insane department of the almshouse as the
+following will testify.
+
+Mr. Herriges here produced a paper on which the following was written:
+
+    "PHILADELPHIA ALMSHOUSE.
+    June 23, 1870.
+
+    "This is to certify that John B. Herriges was admitted to the insane
+    department of this institution on the 21st day of December 1855, aged
+    twenty-seven years, born in Philadelphia, single, and by occupation a
+    tobacconist, and taken out on liberty and did not return.
+
+    "From the register in agent's office.
+
+    "Attest,
+      ALFRED D. W. CALDWELL,
+        House Agent.
+
+    "Witness present--J. C. FRENO."
+
+Reporter--How long did he remain under treatment there?
+
+Mr. H.--About one month.
+
+Reporter--Why so short a length of time?
+
+Mr H.--During the time he was there he became so emaciated, either from
+improper care in feeding him or from a bad attack of dysentery, that he
+had scarcely any life in him, and his mother insisted on bringing him home
+to nurse him. To save his life and to satisfy mother, I procured a
+carriage and brought him home, where by careful treatment he was restored
+to his usual good health.
+
+Reporter--Why did you permit your brother to remain so dirty?
+
+Mr. H.--It was an impossibility on our part to prevent it.
+
+Reporter--Is it true you kept him confined in the small room overhead as
+it is stated in the papers.
+
+Mr. H.--It is not true; my brother had the range of the house and yard at
+all times, but no more; I could not let him go in the street, for he had
+no appreciation whatever of danger, and he was therefore liable at any
+moment to be run over.
+
+At this point the mother put in an appearance. Introducing ourselves to
+her, she remarked. "I hope you will give a truthful statement of what we
+tell you." Informing her our motto was "Truth without Fear," she appeared
+much better satisfied. We asked her if her son had been much care upon
+her. She informed us he was a constant care; that from the time he was
+about twenty-five years of age there had never a mouthful of food passed
+his lips except what was fed to him as we would feed a helpless infant.
+
+Reporter--What do you assign, madam, as the primary cause of his insanity?
+
+Mrs. H.--At the age of nineteen my son began attending lectures given by
+anti-meat eaters, spiritualists etc., and impressed with their nonsensical
+doctrines, he, about that time, quit eating meat and took to a vegetable
+diet, and I think those lectures, together with this diet, had much to do
+with it.
+
+Reporter--I do not understand how a vegetable diet could cause insanity,
+when it is well known that Horace Greeley is a vegetintarian?
+
+Mrs. H.--Well, isn't he insane sometimes?
+
+Reporter--Mr. Bennett, of the _Herald_, and Dana, of the _Sun_, say he is;
+but they think so because Mr. Greeley venerates a dilapidated white hat,
+wears shocking bad shoes, and is a member of the free love order.
+
+Mrs. H.--Well, those lectures certainly had much to do with his insanity,
+for his disease began to develop soon after his attendance upon them.
+
+Reporter--Some of the papers stated he was confined because of a desire on
+the part of his family to get $40,000, alleged to have been left him and
+to accomplish which, they further intimated that your husband did not die
+a natural death.
+
+Mrs. H.--My son John never had any money in his own right; he has been
+kept, maintained and clothed by his brother Joseph ever since his
+affliction, and indeed long previous to it. As for intimations concerning
+my husband, the whole thing must have originated in the brain of a woman
+of fervid imagination, claiming to have some connection with the _Sunday
+Dispatch_. That lady called to see me, and with acts of kindness, such as
+throwing her arms around me, and informing me she would send a carriage to
+have me taken away for fear the crowd around the house would do me bodily
+injury, and with a promise to give a true account, she got a full and true
+statement of the case; but to my surprise and indignation, published
+nothing but a tissue of falsehoods. How a young woman professing to be a
+lady could so act towards me, an old woman of eighty, I cannot comprehend.
+
+Mrs. Herriges then went on to tell us her poor afflicted boy had been the
+one care of her life; that she took him away from the insane asylum
+because she knew they did not know how to feed him, and that he would soon
+die there if allowed to remain; that she had ever watched over him with
+all the affection of a mother, never wearying in her attendance upon him.
+
+When we asked, "What of your husband?" we were informed that many years
+ago he went to Oregon, took up a section of ground in Villamette valley,
+previous to which he had built himself a house in Oregon City. He died
+about twenty years ago, and the first knowledge we had of it was from a
+Caspar Rudolph, living in Oregon, and who was formerly from this city. A
+power of attorney was sent to Rudolph to enable him to settle the estate.
+Upon his taking the necessary legal steps he learned that Mr. Herriges had
+appointed William Glass and Dr. Theophilus Degan as his executors. He
+further learned these gentlemen had disposed of all his property, a short
+time after which they left Oregon.
+
+After leaving the family we next directed our steps to the insane asylum
+of the almshouse. Arriving there we made ourselves acquainted with Dr.
+Richardson, who has charge of the insane. We found the doctor one of the
+most obliging public officials we have ever met. He appeared to esteem it
+a pleasure to give us all the information he could in regard to the
+insane. The doctor has had charge of the insane since December 1866.
+Previous to that time he was connected with the poor department for many
+years. Informing the doctor our visit was for the purpose of conversing
+with him in relation to John Herriges, he at once informed us the Herriges
+family had received a great and uncalled for injury from the press of this
+city. As for John he was hopelessly insane, and was doubtless so from the
+first. He told us insanity incurable was stamped upon every lineament of
+his countenance, and as for the filthy condition in which he was found
+that signified nothing. His filthy habits appear to come to him
+periodically: that is, every other night he will pass his excrement, after
+which he will smear the walls, floor and his own face and body with it,
+presenting one of the most disgusting sights the doctor ever witnessed.
+The doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and
+instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who
+came under his notice. She acted precisely similar to John Herriges during
+the time she was under his care. The lady was cured however and has
+resumed her place in the fashionable world.
+
+Dr. Richardson also informed us that insanity frequently ran to the
+opposite of dirty habits, one patient, now in the asylum, is continually,
+if allowed, engaged in washing himself; fifty times a day or more would he
+go through his ablutions. And it is more frequently in the other
+direction; we were informed that Herriges cell had to be white-washed and
+cleaned every other day; that he cannot feed himself at all; when John
+first entered the asylum the only meal he seemed to enjoy was his dinner;
+now he eats his breakfast and supper with a relish; in fact he was just
+in the act of taking supper when we paid a visit to John Herriges; we
+found a man of five feet eight inches, weighing about 140 pounds, with a
+skin as white as any lady's in the city; all traces of the dirt the
+_Sunday Dispatch_ had ground into his flesh so deep, as never to be washed
+out, was completely gone, and John presented a better, more gentlemanly
+appearance than any other man in the asylum. Dr. Richardson made the
+remark that John had been fed with food of a diversified character; that
+there was no speck of scrofula appearing upon his body. * * * * * * * He
+requires to be wheeled on a chair to his meals and back again. His food
+has to be put in his mouth, or he would never eat, and, altogether, he is
+one of the most deplorable cases of insanity we have ever seen; and that
+the sober, second thought of the public will award his family due credit
+for what they did for him, there can be no doubt; if not before, at least
+after the trial of Joseph, before a judge and jury shall have taken place.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from _The Day_ newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: "_A Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years_."
+
+"The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. _That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify._"
+
+"Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The facts which we obtained at the Almshouse can be thoroughly relied upon
+as being correct as we got them directly from Detective John O'Grady who
+had been detailed specially by Mayor Fox in conjunction with Detective
+Benjamin Franklin to work up the facts in the case. Officer O'Grady went
+to the Herriges house and searched it thoroughly the day that the trunk
+and bags were taken away from the premises. There were the wildest rumors
+in regard to this circumstance which were entirely unjust as the trunk and
+bags contained nothing only valuable papers which Herriges, fearing the
+house would be mored down by the mob, wished to save by thus removing
+them.
+
+Officers O'Grady and Franklin merit special commendation for the manner in
+which they worked up their part of the case.
+
+
+[Illustration: Likeness of the Brother and Mother of the Victim.
+
+Bildniß von dem Bruder und der Mutter des unglücklichen Opfers.]
+
+
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+<p>Title: The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia</p>
+<p>       A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House</p>
+<p>Author: Anonymous</p>
+<p>Release Date: December 12, 2011  [eBook #38282]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HERRIGES HORROR IN PHILADELPHIA***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h4 class="center">E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
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+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class="center">THE<br />
+<span class="giant">HERRIGES HORROR</span><br />
+<span class="large">IN PHILADELPHIA.</span></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A FULL HISTORY OF THE WHOLE AFFAIR.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A MAN KEPT IN A DARK CAGE LIKE A WILD<br />
+BEAST FOR TWENTY YEARS,<br />
+AS ALLEGED,<br />
+IN HIS OWN MOTHER&#8217;S AND BROTHER&#8217;S HOUSE.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><strong>The Most Fiendish Cruelty of the Century.</strong></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">ILLUSTRATED WITH RELIABLE ENGRAVINGS,<br />
+DRAWN SPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class="center">Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by C. W. ALEXANDER,<br />
+in the Clerk&#8217;s Office of the District Court in and for the Eastern District of<br />
+Pennsylvania.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+<p class="title">THE HERRIGES HORROR.</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="table">
+<tr><td>&#8220;Man&#8217;s inhumanity to man<br />
+Makes countless thousands morn.&#8221;</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>Every now and then the world is startled with an event of a like character
+to the one which has just aroused in the city of Philadelphia the utmost
+excitement, and which came near producing a scene of riot and even
+bloodshed.</p>
+
+<p>John Herriges is the name of the victim, and for an indefinite period of
+from ten to twenty years has been confined in a little cagelike room and
+kept in a condition far worse than the wild animals of a menagerie.</p>
+
+<p>What adds an additional phase of horror to the case of this unfortunate
+creature is the fact that he was thus confined in the same house with his
+own brother and mother. To our minds this is the most abhorrent feature of
+the whole affair.</p>
+
+<p>We can imagine how a stranger, or an uncle, or an aunt possessed with the
+demon of avarice could deliberately imprison the heir to a coveted estate
+in some out of the way room or loft of a large building where the victim
+would be so far removed from sight and sound as to prevent his groans and
+tears being heard or seen. But how a brother and, Merciful Heaven, a
+mother could live in a shanty of a house year after year with a brother,
+and son shut up and in the condition in which the officers of the law
+found poor John Herriges, is more than we can account for by any process
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>of reasoning. It only shows what perverted human nature is capable of.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE HOUSE OF HORROR.</p>
+
+<p>The house in which lived the Herriges family is a little two storied frame
+building or more properly shanty, rickety and poverty stricken in its
+appearance, more resembling the abodes of the denizens of Baker street
+slums than the home of persons of real wealth as it really is. It stands
+on the northeast corner of Fourth and Lombard streets, in Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately to the north of it is an extensive soap boiling establishment,
+while directly adjoining it in the east are some frame shanties still
+smaller and more delapidated than itself, and which, belonging to the
+Herriges also, were rented by Joseph Herriges, the accused, for a most
+exhorbitant sum. To the credit of the occupants of these shanties, we must
+say that by means of whitewash they have made them look far preferable to
+that of their landlord&mdash;at least in appearance.</p>
+
+<p>On the north of the soap boiling establishment referred to stretches the
+burial ground of St. Peter&#8217;s Episcopal Church, with its hundreds of
+monuments and green graves, while on the opposite side of Fourth street
+lies the burial ground of the Old Pine Street Church, with its almost
+numberless dead.</p>
+
+<p>The writer of this recollects years ago, when a boy, often passing and
+repassing the Herriges house, and noticing on account of its forlorn
+appearance and the comical Dutch Pompey which stood upon the wooden
+pedestal at the door to indicate the business of a tobacconist.</p>
+
+<p>How little he thought when contemplating it, that a human being languished
+within its dingy wooden walls, in a condition worse than that of the
+worst-cared-for brutes.</p>
+
+<p>A fact in connection with this case is remarkable, which is this. On a
+Sabbath morning there is no one spot in the whole city of Philadelphia,
+standing on which, you can hear so many different church bells at once, or
+so many different choirs singing the praises of Almighty God. And on every
+returning Sunday the poor prisoner&#8217;s ears drank in the sacred harmony. God
+knows perhaps at such times the angels ministered to him in his dismal
+cage, sent thither with sunshine that could not be shut out by human
+monsters. Think of it, reader, a thousand recurring Sabbaths found the
+poor young imbecile growing from youth to a dreadfully premature old age.
+The mind staggers to think of it. Could we trace day by day the long
+wearisome hours of the captive&#8217;s life, how terrible would be the journey.
+We should hear him sighing for the bright sun light that made the grave
+yard green and clothed all the monuments in <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>beautiful flowers. How he
+would prize the fragrance of a little flower, condemned as he was to smell
+nothing but the dank, noisome effluvia of the soap boiler&#8217;s factory.</p>
+
+<p>Hope had no place in his cramped, filthy cage. No genius but that of
+Dispair ever found tenement in the grimed little room.</p>
+
+<p>But though so long, oh, so long, Liberty came at last, and the pining boy,
+now an old man, was set free, through the agency of a poor, but noble
+woman, Mrs. Gibson, who had the heart to feel and the bravery to rescue
+from his hellish bondage the unfortunate.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE GIBSON&#8217;S HISTORY OF THE AFFAIR.</p>
+
+<p>On the 1st of June 1870 Thos. J. Gibson and his mother rented the frame
+house 337 Lombard Street from Joseph Herriges. The house adjoined Herriges
+cigar store. Mr. Hoger, a shoemaker, living next door to Mrs. Gibson&#8217;s,
+told her at the time she moved into the house, that she would see a crazy
+man in Herriges house and not to be afraid of him. Mrs. Charnes, living
+next door but one, for seventeen years, laughed at her, when she asked
+about the crazy man living locked up in Herriges house, as though making
+light of the whole matter.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">VERBATIM COPY OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN JOSEPH HERRIGES AND THE GIBSONS.</p>
+
+<p>This Contract and Agreement is that the rent of sixteen dollars per month
+is to be paid punctually in advance each and every month hereafter, and if
+the terms of this contract is not complied with I will leave the house and
+give up the possession to the lessor or his representatives.</p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Thos. J. Gibson.</span></span></p>
+
+<p>Received of Ann Gibson sixteen dollars for one month&#8217;s rent in advance
+from June 1. To 30 1870 rent to begin on 1. June and end on the 30.</p>
+
+<p>Rented May 27 1870</p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">J. Herriges.</span></span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE DISCOVERY.</p>
+
+<p>On Monday, June 14th, Mr. Gibson&#8217;s little sister was sent up-stairs to get
+ready for school, and on going to the window she was frightened by seeing
+a man looking through the crevices of an upper window in Herriges house,
+which window was in the second story. This window was closely barred with
+pieces of plank from top to bottom.</p>
+
+<p>The man was mumbling and singing and making strange and singular noises.
+The little girl came running down stairs in the utmost terror exclaiming:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, mother! mother! there is a man up in that room! I saw him poke his
+nose through the boards just like a dog!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Being busy, Mrs. Gibson did not go up at this moment to verify the child&#8217;s
+statement, but when she did find time she went up. By that time the man
+had withdrawn his nose from the window, but shortly afterwards she caught
+a glimpse of something that she thought was the hand <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>of a human being,
+covered with filth, resting against the space between the bars.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment Mrs. Gibson saw Mrs. Herriges, John&#8217;s mother, in the yard,
+and called to the prisoner, saying:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;What are you there for? Why don&#8217;t you pull off the boards and get out?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The man made some response; but in such indistinct tones of voice that
+Mrs. Gibson could not understand what he said. It was enough to convince
+her however, that there was a human being confined in the room.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Gibson hoped by thus continually talking to the prisoner to get the
+mother to say something about it, but the old woman did not notice her at
+all, but after doing something about the yard went into the house.</p>
+
+<p>On Tuesday morning at about 3 o&#8217;clock, Mr. Gibson was awakened by noises
+at the same window. He at once arose and dressed himself and called his
+mother up and told her he heard some one at Herriges window. These noises
+were mumbling and singing and a strange noise as though some one were
+clapping his hands together.</p>
+
+<p>At this time Mr. Gibson got out upon his own shed which leans down toward
+Herriges fence, and would have got up to the prisoner&#8217;s window to tear off
+the bars and get the man out but his mother would not allow him to do it.</p>
+
+<p>It is not more than eleven or twelve feet from Mr. Gibson&#8217;s window to the
+window of the little cage like room in which John Herriges was confined,
+so when Mr. Gibson got down to the edge of the shed he was not more than
+about three or four feet from the prisoner&#8217;s window.</p>
+
+<p>Listening a while he could shortly distinguish words being uttered by the
+prisoner. Among them were these:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Murdering! Murdering! George! George! they want to get me out of the
+way.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson then spoke to him saying:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you try and get out of there?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The prisoner instantly replied:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll promote you! I&#8217;ll promote you!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson remained upon the shed from three o&#8217;clock until seven in the
+morning, while his mother stood at the window.</p>
+
+<p>Being fully satisfied that there was a poor miserable man kept confined in
+the little room of Herriges house, deprived of his liberty, and not only
+that but that he was kept in a filthy condition to judge from the horrible
+stench that issued from the window, the watcher resolved to report the
+fact to the authorities.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">REPORT TO THE POLICE.</p>
+
+<p>The same morning Mr. Gibson went up to the Union Street Station House and
+reported what he had seen and heard. But instead of investigating the
+affair, the lieutenant told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Central Station
+House at Fifth and Chestnut and report the matter to lieutenant Charles
+Thomas in charge there.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas replied:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Excuse me, but you tell the Lieutenant down at the Station House, that I
+cannot open an insane asylum.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>At this moment the Mayor chanced to pass down through the basement, and
+the matter being called to his attention, he said to Lieutenant Thomas:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Send Reeder down to investigate it.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Lieutenant Thomas replied:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Had I not better attend to it myself?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson then left the office.</p>
+
+<p>The officers came down about four o&#8217;clock that afternoon.</p>
+
+<p>About an hour before the arrival of the officers, Mr. Gibson and his
+mother went into the cigar store, kept by Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Good afternoon,&#8221; said Mr. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Good afternoon,&#8221; replied Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;What have you got that man locked up in that room for?&#8221; asked Mrs.
+Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Is that any of your business?&#8221; asked Herriges abruptly.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t know, that it is, but I would like to know what he is
+penned up there for?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Does my brother annoy you?&#8221; inquired Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Well, yes, he frightens my children,&#8221; replied Mrs. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;You must have very funny kind of children to what other people have&#8221;
+sneeringly remarked Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that they are any funnier than anybody else&#8217;s children&#8221; said
+Mrs. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>Herriges then turned upon Mrs. Gibson and said in a very provoking manner.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Why, it is a wonder, he don&#8217;t frighten you, too.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson, taking it up for his mother, then said:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Yes, he did frighten my mother very much last night.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Well, if my brother frightens you so, you had better move out of the
+house, as quick as you can&#8221; said Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;I will, if you only will give me back what money is coming to me&#8221; said
+Mrs. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;No, I won&#8217;t give you any money back&#8221; answered Herriges.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; said Mrs. Gibson, &#8220;I can&#8217;t afford to pay you a month&#8217;s rent in
+advance, and then move some where else and pay another month&#8217;s rent in
+advance too.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Herriges then began to talk so offensively insolent, that Mr. Gibson and
+his mother were obliged to leave the store. They at once went down town to
+see about another house, for Mrs. Gibson had been rendered so exceedingly
+nervous by the startling events of the past few days that she was almost
+sick.</p>
+
+<p>By the time Mr. Gibson and his mother had returned home from their house
+hunting, the officers had arrived, and brought the insane man down stairs.</p>
+
+<p>After that the back of Herriges house was shut tightly up. The next day
+the officers came down again and removed the insane man in a carriage to
+the Central Station.</p>
+
+<p>During the time that Gibsons lived in the house, if Mr. Gibson at any time
+got up to drive a nail in the fence or side of the house to fasten a
+clothes line to, or, as on occasion to fix wire to bold stove pipe,
+Herriges would come out in a hurry and order him to get down and not do
+it; saying it would destroy the property; but as Mr. Gibson now thinks to
+prevent him getting near the window of the room where John was.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<p class="center">THE EFFORT TO GET THE GIBSONS AWAY.</p>
+
+<p>After the discovery of the affair, on the following Thursday June 16th a
+sister of Herriges, Mrs. Mary Ann Hurtt came down to Mr. Gibson&#8217;s house.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Good morning, Mrs. Gibson,&#8221; said she.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Good morning, ma&#8217;m,&#8221; replied Mrs. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;I am Joseph&#8217;s sister.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Do you mean Joseph Herriges?&#8221; asked Mrs. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; answered she, &#8220;and I want to know, whether you can&#8217;t move away from
+here? I will give you every cent of the rent you have paid, back again. I
+will make you a handsome present besides, and reward you and be a friend
+to you as long as you live. Perhaps when you get old you will need a
+friend. I will do this if you will not appear against Joseph.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Gibson answered:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Charity begins at home, and it is not likely you will befriend me, if you
+couldn&#8217;t befriend your own brother, fastened up there in that cage of a
+room!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>At this moment Mr. Gibson came in, and his mother whispered to him:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s that Herriges sister in the corner there.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Some neighbor in the room said to Mrs. Hurtt:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;There is that young man,&#8221; referring to Mr. Gibson.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Hurtt then said to him:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Can&#8217;t you drop that case?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; said Mr. Gibson, &#8220;it is in the hands of the authorities.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Hurtt said:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Then move out of the neighborhood, and I will pay you back what rent you
+have paid, and will make you a handsome present, if you will leave the
+city.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; said Mr. Gibson, &#8220;I would not leave the city for ten thousand
+dollars.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>He then whispered to his mother:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;You keep her here till I go out and get an officer to arrest her.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>He then went out; and finding an officer on the corner, told him the
+facts, but the officer said he could do nothing in the matter.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Gibson then started up to the Mayor&#8217;s Office, but he met the Mayor in
+Fifth Street above Walnut, to whom he stated the facts. The Mayor walked
+along to the Office with him, and there told Lieutenant Thomas to have a
+warrant issued for the arrest of the sister, who had thus endeavored to
+get Mr. Gibson out of the way. Mr. Gibson having made the charge under
+oath, the warrant issued.</p>
+
+<p>When he returned, Mrs. Hurtt had left his house and gone into her
+brother&#8217;s house. He stood on the pavement awhile to see if she would come
+out. She did not do so, and then he went to the door and asked where that
+lady was who had been in his house that morning about that business.</p>
+
+<p>Old Mrs. Herriges said:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Come in and see her.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; said he, &#8220;let her come out here.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>She then came to the door, and Mr. Gibson told Officer Koniwasher to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>arrest her, that there was a warrant in Lieutenant Thomas&#8217; hands and that
+was on his order. Koniwasher told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Station
+House, get the warrant from Lieutenant Thomas, bring it down and he would
+wait till he came back. Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas gave the
+warrant to Mr. Gibson and sent an Officer along with him, who came back
+with Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Hurtt was arrested.</p>
+
+<p>In about half an hour the party started back to the Central Station
+accompanied by Joseph Herriges, the brother, who said to Mr. Gibson:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Just look at the trouble you have brought on me now!&#8221; to which he made no
+reply.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment the mob began to yell out:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Lynch him! Knife him! Kill him!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Herriges said to the Officers: &#8220;Officers protect me!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The Officers closed round them to protect them, and when a car came, put
+the whole party in it and so reached the Central Station House, where Mrs.
+Hurtt denied in the most positive manner having ever said anything on the
+subject to Mr. Gibson more, than offering him whatever rent was coming to
+him, in fact she denied having made any other proposition about the matter
+at all.</p>
+
+<p>At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from <i>The Day</i> newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: &#8220;<i>Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years</i>.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. <i>That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify.</i>&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The friends of Herriges have asserted that the matter of his brother&#8217;s
+being kept locked up in the little room was made public by the Gibsons for
+malicious purposes or to obtain money from him; because the neighbors all
+around knew for at least seventeen years past that this insane man had
+been kept in the house and that none of them had ever complained about it.</p>
+
+<p>So far from this being true, the Gibsons utterly refused all offers of
+reward made by the Sister to induce them to leave the city and drop the
+case of Herriges. Moreover they not only did not owe any rent but as will
+be seen from the receipt already given paid their month&#8217;s rent in advance
+fully and honestly. Still further after Herriges refused to give them back
+what rent would be coming to them, if they removed, they secured another
+house down town, and moved away from the one they rented of Herriges,
+though they did not give up the key till the full month had expired. Mrs.
+Gibson and her son told us they did this because of Herriges refusal to
+refund them the rent that would be due them.</p>
+
+<p>And Mrs. Gibson who is a lady of nervous temperament, assured us that her
+constant dread was that at some time this maniac or idiot would break out
+of his little cagelike room and get into her house and kill herself and
+her children. And it requires no fervid imagination to believe this, when
+it is remembered that her window and that of the crazy man <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>were not more
+than twelve feet apart with a shed between them extending seven or eight
+feet. Then in the day time she would see him handling the wooden bars at
+his window and glaring out between the slats, while in the stillness of
+the night she would hear him mumbling, cursing and making noises as she
+thought like some one trying to get loose. If that would not terrify a
+mother lying alone with her little children at night we hardly know what
+would.</p>
+
+<p><i>The Above is a correct Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">THOMAS J. GIBSON, Jr.</span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE VICTIM RELEASED.</p>
+
+<p>When the Policemen arrived for the purpose of releasing John Herriges,
+they found that great efforts had been made to cleanse him as well as the
+room in which he had been kept. They at once took the captive down stairs
+and out in the street where the light seemed to stun him. Joseph Herriges
+was now arrested and taken to the Central Station, where he was bound over
+in the sum of five thousand dollars to answer the charge of thus inhumanly
+treating his unfortunate brother. John was, on the evidence of Doctors
+Mayers and Betts sent to the Insane Department at Blockley Almshouse.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE HOUSE MOBBED.</p>
+
+<p>Of course it spread like wildfire in the neighborhood of Herriges house
+that the police had visited it, and found there a man who had been
+confined for nearly his whole life-time in a little cage of a room. In
+consequence a great multitude of curious people at once collected on
+Fourth Street and Lombard Street, and as the story was repeated from mouth
+to mouth, a feeling of anger spread through the assembled hundreds that
+quickly broke out into violent demonstrations.</p>
+
+<p>Hoots and yells and curses were indulged in, and such cries as:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Burn the d&mdash;d house down! Bring out the infernal wretches! Lynch them!
+Tear them out! Hang them! Poor fellow! how horrible to keep him that way!
+Down with the shanty boys!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>At this moment some person in the midst of the mob hurled a stone at the
+wooden image that stands at the entrance to the store. This was like a
+spark in a train of gunpowder, and amidst a shower of missiles a rush was
+made for the apparently fated dwelling.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>But at this juncture some one shouted out:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Back! back! there&#8217;s only old women in the house! He&#8217;s run away for the
+police!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>This stopped the rush, and without doubt saved the building from speedy
+demolition at the hands of the enraged mob.</p>
+
+<p>Meantime Herriges himself had walked out of the house and started up
+Fourth Street, on his way to the station-house to obtain a force of
+policemen to protect his property from the threatened attack. He was at
+once discovered and recognized by the infuriated people, who with one
+accord dashed after him with frightful yells and cries of</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Kill him! Run him up to the lamp-post!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>It was about this time that several gentlemen connected with the newspaper
+press arrived on the scene for the purpose of obtaining particulars of the
+case.</p>
+
+<p>On entering the dwelling, Herriges&#8217; mother, a very old; and as the
+reporters describe her, &#8220;weasaned faced woman,&#8221; seized one of them and
+begged him to save her.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, save me! for the mob is throwing bricks and stones at the house! They
+are going to burn it down, and burn us all alive in it.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>She was assured that she would be protected, and that no harm would befal
+her; and a special messenger was despatched to the police station to have
+a powerful posse of men hurried down to save the place. Each moment the
+mob was growing larger and increasing in the violence of its
+demonstrations, and had not the force of police arrived shortly after
+this, there is no doubt but that the house would have been torn completely
+down, and perhaps burned. Happily, however, such a result was averted by
+prompt action on the part of the authorities.</p>
+
+<p>The newspaper gentlemen, thereupon, had ample opportunity to proceed with
+their visit of inquiry.</p>
+
+<p>A respectable looking woman led the way up stairs ascending which required
+more than ordinary effort, not only on account of their wretched
+condition, but also on account of the frightful stench that came from the
+late abode of the imbecile.</p>
+
+<p>This person informed the visitors that two rooms had been set apart for
+the use of John. The &#8220;parlor&#8221; as she called the den on the first or ground
+floor was entirely destitute of any furniture but the remains of an
+ancient sofa, a regular skeliton with nothing left but the wooden slats.
+Over this was a horribly filthy quilt. This was the imbecile&#8217;s &#8220;parlor.&#8221;
+His &#8220;bed-room&#8221; was the cage to which reference has already been made. The
+scanty glimmering light that forced its way in between the wooden slats
+nailed across the window was just sufficient to show the efforts that had
+been so hurriedly but abortively made to cleanse the den.</p>
+
+<p>Most prominent was a bed freshly placed there and covered with a <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>middling
+good coverlet. One of the gentlemen remarked as he noticed this.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Ah, I see you have put a bed in here. There was none when John was taken
+out.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, yes it was,&#8221; said the woman quickly. &#8220;The bed was always here, but we
+have put a spread over it. We did not do any thing else.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Yes you have done something else,&#8221; was the rejoinder. &#8220;You scraped away
+several inches of filth off this floor, and whitewashed and scrubbed it,
+it is all wet yet.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh well,&#8221; said she, &#8220;the poor old woman down there was not able to keep
+him clean at all. She is eighty years old and the most devoted loving
+mother possible, feeding him with her own hands and providing for him
+every delicacy, like strawberries and such things as that.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Well, now what was the reason you had John confined here?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;John studied too hard when he tried to get into the High School and
+turned his brain. When he was first wrong his brother Joseph, who is the
+kindest hearted man alive, had him taken to a public institution; but his
+mother got uneasy about him and he was brought home again; and Dr. Goddard
+was called in to attend him. The doctor said he needed nothing but
+kindness and skillful nursing, which they gave him with an affection
+beautiful to behold.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>In reply to an inquiry of how long the poor fellow had been locked up in
+this room, she said:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;He wasn&#8217;t locked up here at all. He had the range of the whole house.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;How long has he been out of his mind?&#8221; asked a gentleman.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Somewhere about eighteen years.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Are you a relation of his?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, no, I am only a neighbor, and came in to stay with his poor old
+mother, who is nearly scared to death.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Has he any relatives except his mother and brother?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Yes, he has four sisters.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>About this time Joseph Herriges, nearly dead with fright, returned with
+the police force, and expressed great gratification at the presence of the
+reporters, in order that they might tell his part of the story, and thus
+have <i>reliable</i> facts to give to the public instead of a pack of lies told
+by the neighbors. He said:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;John, when a boy, was very intellectual, and I had resolved to give him a
+good education, so I got him into the public school, also into a night
+school, and had him taught penmanship as well as cigar-making.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Once when he attended a lecture he fell as he came down stairs, and
+struck his head such a violent blow that he never was the same boy
+afterwards, but gradually lost his mind. That has been about twelve years
+ago.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>It will be noticed here that the woman had previously stated eighteen
+years. This was the first discrepancy. Herriges continued:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;I took him to the almshouse, where he was under Dr. Robert Smith&#8217;s care
+for a month. Then his mother and his sister <i>here</i> visited every day.&#8221;
+[Here Herriges pointed to the woman who had positively said she was only a
+<i>neighbor</i>.] &#8220;At last, to please mother, I brought him home and called in
+Doctor Gardner, who said, after a long attendance, that he could do him no
+good. I have devoted my life to that boy, and washed him every day, and
+attended to his wants whenever I attended to my own, and combed and fed
+him.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Then how is it that his hair and beard have become just like felted cloth
+with filth, and how is it that he is covered from head to foot with
+vermin?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;What! how!&#8221; exclaimed Herriges with a decidedly mixed expression on his
+countenance. &#8220;Was there vermin? Well I don&#8217;t know how he got them. I never
+saw any that&#8217;s certain.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Was he so very violent that you kept him locked up in this cage?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, no, John was always as gentle as a lamb.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Then what are those iron and wooden slats at that window for?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, well, we were afraid that he might take a fit some time and get into
+the street and say strange things.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>At this juncture of the garbled narrative, Herriges became flurred, and
+begged the reporters to do him justice, repeating the words.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Now you will do me justice, won&#8217;t you? You see they say I have kept him
+imprisoned in this way to get his share of the property. He has not got a
+cent in the world, for this house is only the property of mother during
+her life time. It is all she has and when she dies it will have to be
+divided among the whole six of us.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;But look here,&#8221; interrupted a gentlemen of the party, &#8220;what about those
+houses on Lombard street and the houses on Fourth street?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, those are all my own,&#8221; answered he. &#8220;I worked and earned them
+myself.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The questioner replied.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;But you told me this morning that your father died in Oregon and left all
+his property to you alone. How do you make that agree with this last
+statement?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t interrupt me. You confuse me, and put me out. I am trying to tell a
+straight story and you throw me out. I&#8217;ll tell you again exactly all.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>He then repeated his former statement and wound up with a fresh appeal to
+be done justly by; which seemed in his mind to mean that his statement
+alone should be given to the public. But he was told that Mrs. Gibson&#8217;s
+story would be published as well as his own, whereupon <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>another sister,
+who had just arrived on the scene, pronounced Mrs. Gibson a liar, and
+added her solicitations to have that part of the history suspended.</p>
+
+<p>On a subsequent visit, the sister who had represented herself as only a
+neighbor, repeated the statements that been previously made by her and her
+brother with a few more variations and contradictions. For instance she
+remarked that the papers said John was a boy of eight years old when he
+was first put in the cage, or little room, &#8220;Now that is false, for he was
+between twenty-three and twenty-four when he went insane.&#8221; On the previous
+day she had said that he went crazy when he was trying to get into the
+High School.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">TRYING TO GET GIBSON AWAY.</p>
+
+<p>On June 16th, Alderman Kerr gave one of the sisters, Mary Ann Hurtt, who
+resides at 707 Girard Avenue, a hearing on the charge of tampering with
+the witness, Mrs. Gibson&#8217;s son.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Thomas J. Gibson, Jr., residing at 337 Lombard Street, testified that
+Mrs. Hurtt came to his house and asked him whether he could not drop that
+case and get out of the way, so as not to testify, saying that if he would
+she would pay him back all the rent he had paid her for the place he was
+occupying, and would make him a handsome present besides that.</p>
+
+<p>The whole statement was most vehemently denied by the accused, who,
+however, was held in five hundred dollars bail to answer the charge at
+court. Her brother Joseph entered the required security.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">THE VICTIM REMOVED TO THE ALMSHOUSE.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Alderman Kerr made the requisite order to that effect, the poor
+imbecile who had been shut up in his cage for so long a time was placed in
+a carriage and taken promptly to Blockley Almshouse.</p>
+
+<p>The attendants and officials who received him aver that in all their
+experience they have never seen such a heart-rending sight as was John
+Herriges when brought to the institution. And this, it will be
+recollected, was after the poor wretch had been submitted to the partial
+cleansing that his relatives gave him immediately after the visit paid
+them by Mrs. Gibson in relation to the captive.</p>
+
+<p>At once, upon his arrival at the hospital of the almshouse, he was
+stripped of the slight filthy salt-bag petticoat, and his body submitted
+to a thorough but careful scrubbing, after which the flesh was, with equal
+care, rubbed until the natural color of the skin began to make its
+appearance through the deep stain of accumulated filth of so many years.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>Next his hair was clipped short, after which fully half an inch of solid
+filth and dirt, as hard and tough as leather, was scraped away from his
+scalp. After all this was done, which occupied a long time, he was dressed
+in a clean suit of the material used for the clothing of the inmates and
+placed in a cell, in which, also, he was securely locked at night, to
+prevent him harming either himself or others. But this was ascertained to
+be entirely unnecessary, as the poor fellow was as docile and quiet as a
+lamb.</p>
+
+<p>After his face was cleaned off, the peculiar pallor of his countenance,
+resulting from the great length of time he was imprisoned in his noisome
+cell, was almost unearthly and strangely striking.</p>
+
+<p>The muscles of his body were like so many flabby strings, from being never
+brought into exercise, rendering him very feeble, though naturally, to
+judge from the size of his frame, he would be a man of great physical
+strength.</p>
+
+<p>At first, after his release, his favorite position was a kind of sitting
+squatting posture, with the hands resting upon the knees, the back bent,
+and head hanging down.</p>
+
+<p>If ordered to get up, he would do so promptly, but rather slowly, as he
+was obliged to remove his hands from his knees and place them on the back
+of his hips. He would get up and stand like a bent over statue.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Now then, John, walk along.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>At this order he would shuffle forward for a step or two, or about the
+length of the cage in which he had been confined, and then manifest a
+desire to turn round and shuffle back, like a sentry walking his beat.</p>
+
+<p>An attendant took his arm, however, saying:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Come, John, walk straight now; lean on me.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>This kindness appeared strange to him, and he made great efforts to
+straighten up and walk the same way as his friend, looking meanwhile
+surprised, perhaps to think he could get so far, and that some one could
+speak kindly to him.</p>
+
+<p>His appetite was good, and he would eat whatever was given him with
+evident relish. In fact he could be compared to nothing more than an
+automaton, a human machine, as will be seen from the following
+conversation which a gentlemen held with him.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;John, where is your right arm?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;There,&#8221; was the reply, as he turned his head and looked at his arm,
+partially raising the member.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Raise your left arm.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Instantly he would raise it.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Hold your head back.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>He did it.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;That will do, John, now open your mouth.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>It was done.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/img1.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center">The Policeman releasing the Victim from his cage.</p>
+<p class="center">Der Polizist befreit das ungl&uuml;ckliche Opfer aus seinem K&auml;fig.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>&#8220;Shut it.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;John, where are you living now?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Of this question he took no notice.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Do you like to live here?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Where did you live before you came here?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>No answer, but a look of half inquiry flitted over John&#8217;s face.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Did you not live at Fourth and Lombard Streets?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Oh, yes.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;For how long a time?&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>No reply, but the same thoughtful look as before.</p>
+
+<p>A variety of other questions was put to the imbecile, to all of which he
+invariably gave quick and correct replies, provided the reply could be
+made in monosyllables. But if it required an answer of several words he
+would remain silent, or apparently trying to think what he should say.</p>
+
+<p>After several days residence at the almshouse he began to lose a
+considerable amount of his former animal stupidity, and if ordered to do
+anything in the same way as when he was first admitted to the institution,
+he would not do it at all, but remain perfectly motionless. This shows
+that his mental feebleness results not so much from natural causes as the
+artificial ones of his long confinement, and a withering isolation from
+the outer world. He will never be himself again, for that would be
+impossible, but it is quite likely that he will recover so far as to
+permit him to enjoy the ease and have that care of kind attendants that
+his share of the property will command.</p>
+
+<p>Comment on the conduct of those relatives from whose charge he has been
+taken is entirely unnecessary. If they have consciences, their feelings
+must be of a rather terrible nature. One thing is certain; poor John will
+be taken good care of in the future, and in Furman Sheppard, Esq., he has
+a friend who will not allow justice to be hoodwinked.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">A VISIT TO THE VICTIM AT THE ALMSHOUSE HOSPITAL.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday, in company with Detective Charles Miller, who had charge of the
+investigation of the circumstances of the case, we made a special visit to
+John Herriges, the subject of this sketch.</p>
+
+<p>When we reached the institution, the usual ball, which is periodically
+given to the patients in the insane department, was at its full height,
+and John&#8217;s nurse, an active and intelligent young man, supposing that the
+happiness and hilarity of the scene would have a beneficial effect upon
+his charge, wheeled him in his chair to the ball room. John seemed
+astonished somewhat, and the excitement took quick effect upon him, making
+him very loquacious, although the words he uttered were so unconnected as
+to be entirely incoherent.</p>
+
+<p>Finding this to be the case, the attendant wheeled his patient to a quiet<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>
+part of the building, where we had a long interview with him. But John
+remained excited, and talked almost constantly about McMullin, the
+veritable William of the Fourth Ward, of murders and burglars, and
+coffins, and kindred subjects. We asked him a number of questions, but
+apart from now and then giving us a semi-intelligent glance, he took no
+notice whatever, until in the midst of it the attendant stepped suddenly
+to one of the insane patients, who, manifesting unusual excitement,
+required prompt securing. This was done by the attendant passing his arms
+round the man, drawing his hands forcibly down and securing them behind,
+as he coaxed him along to a cell.</p>
+
+<p>John Herriges&#8217; face instantly lighted up with great animation as he
+exclaimed, pointing to the two:</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Ha! that&#8217;s the way they kill them, that&#8217;s it, Mully, Mully good
+fellow!&mdash;he! he! he!&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>He constantly has this idiotic laugh.</p>
+
+<p>From a gentleman at the institution we gleaned the following in relation
+to the victim and his family, which he assured us was the correct history
+of the affair. In some essential points it seems to conflict with the
+sister&#8217;s statement made to the reporter of the Sunday Dispatch.</p>
+
+<p>The father&#8217;s name was Bernard Herriges, who went to Oregon in 1843, and
+settled in Walumet Valley, and there died and left land worth about $400,
+in the executorship of Mr. Glasson and Dr. Theophilus Degan. The will is
+recorded in the probate court of Clarkamas County, Oregon, and explicitly
+directs what is to be done with the property. By some means or other no
+claim was established, and the land referred to was occupied by General
+Abeneathy for twenty years. This information was given in reply to a
+letter that was written in 1868, by Hon. Leonard Myers, member of
+Congress, and sent by him to Oregon.</p>
+
+<p>The mother&#8217;s original name was Barbara Miller, and she is now in her
+seventy-ninth year. The oldest son, Joseph, is fifty-six. The sisters
+names are Mary Ann, Sophia, Hannah and Ann Margaret. This gentleman states
+that John, the victim, is now forty-five years old, that he was
+twenty-five when he received the injury that resulted in his imbecility,
+and that consequently the confinement has extended more or less over the
+period of twenty years. On the night of the great fire at Vine Street, in
+1850, he received his hurt as he was returning from a lecture, by being
+pushed over a railing down into an area by the rushing crowd, striking his
+head violently in his descent.</p>
+
+<p>In 1847, the family received a letter from Caspar Rudolph, in Oregon,
+asking them to give him a power of attorney to take control of the
+father&#8217;s possessions there. This document was drawn up by the Hon. William
+D. Baker, signed by all the members of the family, approved before
+Alderman Benn and sent out to Rudolph.</p>
+
+<p>Great praise is due to Doctor Richardson of the Almshouse for the speedy
+improvement his careful treatment has made in John, who is, beyond doubt,
+naturally a very powerful man, has a fine frame and a capitally shaped
+head. But it is certain he will never recover from his imbecility.</p>
+
+<p>The officials in charge of his case from the commencement, also deserve
+great praise for their faithful attention to their disagreeable duty,
+which could not have been performed in a more satisfactory manner.
+Particularly is this true of Officers Coniwasher and Reeder, Lieutenant
+Thomas and Detective Charles Miller.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/img2.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center">Correct Drawing of the Herriges House at Fourth and Lombard. The scene of the Horror.</p>
+<p class="center">Genaue Zeichnung des Herriges Hauses an der Vierten und Lombard Stra&szlig;e. Die Scene des Schreckens.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+<p class="center">JOSEPH HERRIGES&#8217; ACCOUNT.</p>
+
+<p>Since going to press with this history an account of the affair has
+appeared in <i>THE DAY</i>, and which we have inserted here with the desire to
+place before the public whatever may be favorable to Mr. Herriges in the
+matter of his brother&#8217;s confinement. We deem this a matter of mere
+justice.</p>
+
+<p>The reporter having called on Mr. Herriges the following occurred during
+the interview.</p>
+
+<p>We found Joseph Herriges a sensible, gentlemanly and educated person;
+having nothing to conceal, he at once entered into conversation concerning
+his brother; he informed us that John is his only brother, and for whom he
+has always entertained a brotherly affection; in his youthful days he was
+sent to school and educated at Joseph&#8217;s expense; as a schoolboy he was, in
+literary attainments, about on an average with those attending school at
+that time. It was the elder brother&#8217;s intention to fit him for the high
+school, and with that intention he not only sent him to the public
+schools, but also sent him to a night school, that he might more rapidly
+advance in his studies. As evidence of the fact, Mr. Herriges brought
+forth an old time receipt-book and showed us the following receipt:</p>
+
+<p>Received January 12, 1838, of Mr. Joseph Herriges, five dollars in full
+for one quarter&#8217;s tuition of brother John B. Herriges, at evening school,
+including light and stationary.</p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">$5.<span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span><span class="smcap">R. O. R. Louett.</span></span></p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;When did the insanity of John begin to develop itself?</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Herriges&mdash;It first began to show itself when he was twenty years of
+age. At that time he had only temporary fits of abstraction, which grew
+worse from time to time, until, at the age of twenty-six, he became wholly
+insane, and, what is unusual in insanity, he would never eat anything
+unless fed like an infant. Hunger could not tempt him to eat, nor thirst
+to drink, any more than it could tempt the infant of three months to eat
+or drink without assistance.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Why did you not attempt a cure in accordance with the usual
+method?</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Herriges&mdash;I did. I became acquainted with Dr. R. K. Smith, who
+informed that a cure might be effected, and in accordance with his
+suggestions, I sent him to the insane department of the almshouse as the
+following will testify.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Herriges here produced a paper on which the following was written:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="right"><span style="padding-right: 4em;">&#8220;<span class="smcap">Philadelphia Almshouse.</span></span><br />
+<span style="padding-right: 3em;">June 23, 1870.</span></p>
+
+<p>&#8220;This is to certify that John B. Herriges was admitted to the insane
+department of this institution on the 21st day of December 1855, aged
+twenty-seven years, born in Philadelphia, single, and by occupation a
+tobacconist, and taken out on liberty and did not return.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;From the register in agent&#8217;s office.</p>
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 2em;">&#8220;Attest,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;"><span class="smcap">Alfred D. W. Caldwell</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;">House Agent.</span></p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Witness present&mdash;<span class="smcap">J. C. Freno</span>.&#8221;</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>Reporter&mdash;How long did he remain under treatment there?</p>
+
+<p>Mr. H.&mdash;About one month.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Why so short a length of time?</p>
+
+<p>Mr H.&mdash;During the time he was there he became so emaciated, either from
+improper care in feeding him or from a bad attack of dysentery, that he
+had scarcely any life in him, and his mother insisted on bringing him home
+to nurse him. To save his life and to satisfy mother, I procured a
+carriage and brought him home, where by careful treatment he was restored
+to his usual good health.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Why did you permit your brother to remain so dirty?</p>
+
+<p>Mr. H.&mdash;It was an impossibility on our part to prevent it.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Is it true you kept him confined in the small room overhead as
+it is stated in the papers.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. H.&mdash;It is not true; my brother had the range of the house and yard at
+all times, but no more; I could not let him go in the street, for he had
+no appreciation whatever of danger, and he was therefore liable at any
+moment to be run over.</p>
+
+<p>At this point the mother put in an appearance. Introducing ourselves to
+her, she remarked. &#8220;I hope you will give a truthful statement of what we
+tell you.&#8221; Informing her our motto was &#8220;Truth without Fear,&#8221; she appeared
+much better satisfied. We asked her if her son had been much care upon
+her. She informed us he was a constant care; that from the time he was
+about twenty-five years of age there had never a mouthful of food passed
+his lips except what was fed to him as we would feed a helpless infant.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;What do you assign, madam, as the primary cause of his insanity?</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. H.&mdash;At the age of nineteen my son began attending lectures given by
+anti-meat eaters, spiritualists etc., and impressed with their nonsensical
+doctrines, he, about that time, quit eating meat and took to a vegetable
+diet, and I think those lectures, together with this diet, had much to do
+with it.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;I do not understand how a vegetable diet could cause insanity,
+when it is well known that Horace Greeley is a vegetintarian?</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. H.&mdash;Well, isn&#8217;t he insane sometimes?</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Mr. Bennett, of the <i>Herald</i>, and Dana, of the <i>Sun</i>, say he is;
+but they think so because Mr. Greeley venerates a dilapidated white hat,
+wears shocking bad shoes, and is a member of the free love order.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. H.&mdash;Well, those lectures certainly had much to do with his insanity,
+for his disease began to develop soon after his attendance upon them.</p>
+
+<p>Reporter&mdash;Some of the papers stated he was confined because of a desire on
+the part of his family to get $40,000, alleged to have been left him and
+to accomplish which, they further intimated that your husband did not die
+a natural death.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. H.&mdash;My son John never had any money in his own right; he has been
+kept, maintained and clothed by his brother Joseph ever since his
+affliction, and indeed long previous to it. As for intimations concerning
+my husband, the whole thing must have originated in the brain of a woman
+of fervid imagination, claiming to have some connection with the <i>Sunday
+Dispatch</i>. That lady called to see me, and with acts of kindness, such as
+throwing her arms around me, and informing me she would send a carriage to
+have me taken away for fear the crowd around the house <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>would do me bodily
+injury, and with a promise to give a true account, she got a full and true
+statement of the case; but to my surprise and indignation, published
+nothing but a tissue of falsehoods. How a young woman professing to be a
+lady could so act towards me, an old woman of eighty, I cannot comprehend.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Herriges then went on to tell us her poor afflicted boy had been the
+one care of her life; that she took him away from the insane asylum
+because she knew they did not know how to feed him, and that he would soon
+die there if allowed to remain; that she had ever watched over him with
+all the affection of a mother, never wearying in her attendance upon him.</p>
+
+<p>When we asked, &#8220;What of your husband?&#8221; we were informed that many years
+ago he went to Oregon, took up a section of ground in Villamette valley,
+previous to which he had built himself a house in Oregon City. He died
+about twenty years ago, and the first knowledge we had of it was from a
+Caspar Rudolph, living in Oregon, and who was formerly from this city. A
+power of attorney was sent to Rudolph to enable him to settle the estate.
+Upon his taking the necessary legal steps he learned that Mr. Herriges had
+appointed William Glass and Dr. Theophilus Degan as his executors. He
+further learned these gentlemen had disposed of all his property, a short
+time after which they left Oregon.</p>
+
+<p>After leaving the family we next directed our steps to the insane asylum
+of the almshouse. Arriving there we made ourselves acquainted with Dr.
+Richardson, who has charge of the insane. We found the doctor one of the
+most obliging public officials we have ever met. He appeared to esteem it
+a pleasure to give us all the information he could in regard to the
+insane. The doctor has had charge of the insane since December 1866.
+Previous to that time he was connected with the poor department for many
+years. Informing the doctor our visit was for the purpose of conversing
+with him in relation to John Herriges, he at once informed us the Herriges
+family had received a great and uncalled for injury from the press of this
+city. As for John he was hopelessly insane, and was doubtless so from the
+first. He told us insanity incurable was stamped upon every lineament of
+his countenance, and as for the filthy condition in which he was found
+that signified nothing. His filthy habits appear to come to him
+periodically: that is, every other night he will pass his excrement, after
+which he will smear the walls, floor and his own face and body with it,
+presenting one of the most disgusting sights the doctor ever witnessed.
+The doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and
+instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who
+came under his notice. She acted precisely similar to John Herriges during
+the time she was under his care. The lady was cured however and has
+resumed her place in the fashionable world.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Richardson also informed us that insanity frequently ran to the
+opposite of dirty habits, one patient, now in the asylum, is continually,
+if allowed, engaged in washing himself; fifty times a day or more would he
+go through his ablutions. And it is more frequently in the other
+direction; we were informed that Herriges cell had to be white-washed and
+cleaned every other day; that he cannot feed himself at all; when John
+first entered the asylum the only meal he seemed to enjoy was his dinner;
+now he eats his breakfast and supper with a relish; in fact he <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>was just
+in the act of taking supper when we paid a visit to John Herriges; we
+found a man of five feet eight inches, weighing about 140 pounds, with a
+skin as white as any lady&#8217;s in the city; all traces of the dirt the
+<i>Sunday Dispatch</i> had ground into his flesh so deep, as never to be washed
+out, was completely gone, and John presented a better, more gentlemanly
+appearance than any other man in the asylum. Dr. Richardson made the
+remark that John had been fed with food of a diversified character; that
+there was no speck of scrofula appearing upon his body. * * * * * * * He
+requires to be wheeled on a chair to his meals and back again. His food
+has to be put in his mouth, or he would never eat, and, altogether, he is
+one of the most deplorable cases of insanity we have ever seen; and that
+the sober, second thought of the public will award his family due credit
+for what they did for him, there can be no doubt; if not before, at least
+after the trial of Joseph, before a judge and jury shall have taken place.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from <i>The Day</i> newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: &#8220;<i>A Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years</i>.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. <i>That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify.</i>&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation.&#8221;</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 25%;" />
+
+<p>The facts which we obtained at the Almshouse can be thoroughly relied upon
+as being correct as we got them directly from Detective John O&#8217;Grady who
+had been detailed specially by Mayor Fox in conjunction with Detective
+Benjamin Franklin to work up the facts in the case. Officer O&#8217;Grady went
+to the Herriges house and searched it thoroughly the day that the trunk
+and bags were taken away from the premises. There were the wildest rumors
+in regard to this circumstance which were entirely unjust as the trunk and
+bags contained nothing only valuable papers which Herriges, fearing the
+house would be mored down by the mob, wished to save by thus removing
+them.</p>
+
+<p>Officers O&#8217;Grady and Franklin merit special commendation for the manner in
+which they worked up their part of the case.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/img3.jpg" alt="" /></div>
+<p class="center">Likeness of the Brother and Mother of the Victim.</p>
+<p class="center">Bildni&szlig; von dem Bruder und der Mutter des ungl&uuml;cklichen Opfers.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia, by
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+Title: The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia
+       A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House
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+THE HERRIGES HORROR IN PHILADELPHIA.
+
+A Full History of the Whole Affair.
+
+A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild
+Beast for Twenty Years,
+As Alleged,
+in His Own Mother's and Brother's House.
+
+The Most Fiendish Cruelty of the Century.
+
+Illustrated with Reliable Engravings,
+Drawn Specially for This Work.
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+Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by C. W.
+ALEXANDER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court in and for the
+Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
+
+
+
+
+THE HERRIGES HORROR.
+
+  "Man's inhumanity to man
+  Makes countless thousands morn."
+
+
+Every now and then the world is startled with an event of a like character
+to the one which has just aroused in the city of Philadelphia the utmost
+excitement, and which came near producing a scene of riot and even
+bloodshed.
+
+John Herriges is the name of the victim, and for an indefinite period of
+from ten to twenty years has been confined in a little cagelike room and
+kept in a condition far worse than the wild animals of a menagerie.
+
+What adds an additional phase of horror to the case of this unfortunate
+creature is the fact that he was thus confined in the same house with his
+own brother and mother. To our minds this is the most abhorrent feature of
+the whole affair.
+
+We can imagine how a stranger, or an uncle, or an aunt possessed with the
+demon of avarice could deliberately imprison the heir to a coveted estate
+in some out of the way room or loft of a large building where the victim
+would be so far removed from sight and sound as to prevent his groans and
+tears being heard or seen. But how a brother and, Merciful Heaven, a
+mother could live in a shanty of a house year after year with a brother,
+and son shut up and in the condition in which the officers of the law
+found poor John Herriges, is more than we can account for by any process
+of reasoning. It only shows what perverted human nature is capable of.
+
+
+THE HOUSE OF HORROR.
+
+The house in which lived the Herriges family is a little two storied frame
+building or more properly shanty, rickety and poverty stricken in its
+appearance, more resembling the abodes of the denizens of Baker street
+slums than the home of persons of real wealth as it really is. It stands
+on the northeast corner of Fourth and Lombard streets, in Philadelphia.
+
+Immediately to the north of it is an extensive soap boiling establishment,
+while directly adjoining it in the east are some frame shanties still
+smaller and more delapidated than itself, and which, belonging to the
+Herriges also, were rented by Joseph Herriges, the accused, for a most
+exhorbitant sum. To the credit of the occupants of these shanties, we must
+say that by means of whitewash they have made them look far preferable to
+that of their landlord--at least in appearance.
+
+On the north of the soap boiling establishment referred to stretches the
+burial ground of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, with its hundreds of
+monuments and green graves, while on the opposite side of Fourth street
+lies the burial ground of the Old Pine Street Church, with its almost
+numberless dead.
+
+The writer of this recollects years ago, when a boy, often passing and
+repassing the Herriges house, and noticing on account of its forlorn
+appearance and the comical Dutch Pompey which stood upon the wooden
+pedestal at the door to indicate the business of a tobacconist.
+
+How little he thought when contemplating it, that a human being languished
+within its dingy wooden walls, in a condition worse than that of the
+worst-cared-for brutes.
+
+A fact in connection with this case is remarkable, which is this. On a
+Sabbath morning there is no one spot in the whole city of Philadelphia,
+standing on which, you can hear so many different church bells at once, or
+so many different choirs singing the praises of Almighty God. And on every
+returning Sunday the poor prisoner's ears drank in the sacred harmony. God
+knows perhaps at such times the angels ministered to him in his dismal
+cage, sent thither with sunshine that could not be shut out by human
+monsters. Think of it, reader, a thousand recurring Sabbaths found the
+poor young imbecile growing from youth to a dreadfully premature old age.
+The mind staggers to think of it. Could we trace day by day the long
+wearisome hours of the captive's life, how terrible would be the journey.
+We should hear him sighing for the bright sun light that made the grave
+yard green and clothed all the monuments in beautiful flowers. How he
+would prize the fragrance of a little flower, condemned as he was to smell
+nothing but the dank, noisome effluvia of the soap boiler's factory.
+
+Hope had no place in his cramped, filthy cage. No genius but that of
+Dispair ever found tenement in the grimed little room.
+
+But though so long, oh, so long, Liberty came at last, and the pining boy,
+now an old man, was set free, through the agency of a poor, but noble
+woman, Mrs. Gibson, who had the heart to feel and the bravery to rescue
+from his hellish bondage the unfortunate.
+
+
+THE GIBSON'S HISTORY OF THE AFFAIR.
+
+On the 1st of June 1870 Thos. J. Gibson and his mother rented the frame
+house 337 Lombard Street from Joseph Herriges. The house adjoined Herriges
+cigar store. Mr. Hoger, a shoemaker, living next door to Mrs. Gibson's,
+told her at the time she moved into the house, that she would see a crazy
+man in Herriges house and not to be afraid of him. Mrs. Charnes, living
+next door but one, for seventeen years, laughed at her, when she asked
+about the crazy man living locked up in Herriges house, as though making
+light of the whole matter.
+
+
+VERBATIM COPY OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN JOSEPH HERRIGES AND THE GIBSONS.
+
+This Contract and Agreement is that the rent of sixteen dollars per month
+is to be paid punctually in advance each and every month hereafter, and if
+the terms of this contract is not complied with I will leave the house and
+give up the possession to the lessor or his representatives.
+
+  THOS. J. GIBSON.
+
+Received of Ann Gibson sixteen dollars for one month's rent in advance
+from June 1. To 30 1870 rent to begin on 1. June and end on the 30.
+
+Rented May 27 1870
+
+  J. HERRIGES.
+
+
+THE DISCOVERY.
+
+On Monday, June 14th, Mr. Gibson's little sister was sent up-stairs to get
+ready for school, and on going to the window she was frightened by seeing
+a man looking through the crevices of an upper window in Herriges house,
+which window was in the second story. This window was closely barred with
+pieces of plank from top to bottom.
+
+The man was mumbling and singing and making strange and singular noises.
+The little girl came running down stairs in the utmost terror exclaiming:
+
+"Oh, mother! mother! there is a man up in that room! I saw him poke his
+nose through the boards just like a dog!"
+
+Being busy, Mrs. Gibson did not go up at this moment to verify the child's
+statement, but when she did find time she went up. By that time the man
+had withdrawn his nose from the window, but shortly afterwards she caught
+a glimpse of something that she thought was the hand of a human being,
+covered with filth, resting against the space between the bars.
+
+At this moment Mrs. Gibson saw Mrs. Herriges, John's mother, in the yard,
+and called to the prisoner, saying:
+
+"What are you there for? Why don't you pull off the boards and get out?"
+
+The man made some response; but in such indistinct tones of voice that
+Mrs. Gibson could not understand what he said. It was enough to convince
+her however, that there was a human being confined in the room.
+
+Mrs. Gibson hoped by thus continually talking to the prisoner to get the
+mother to say something about it, but the old woman did not notice her at
+all, but after doing something about the yard went into the house.
+
+On Tuesday morning at about 3 o'clock, Mr. Gibson was awakened by noises
+at the same window. He at once arose and dressed himself and called his
+mother up and told her he heard some one at Herriges window. These noises
+were mumbling and singing and a strange noise as though some one were
+clapping his hands together.
+
+At this time Mr. Gibson got out upon his own shed which leans down toward
+Herriges fence, and would have got up to the prisoner's window to tear off
+the bars and get the man out but his mother would not allow him to do it.
+
+It is not more than eleven or twelve feet from Mr. Gibson's window to the
+window of the little cage like room in which John Herriges was confined,
+so when Mr. Gibson got down to the edge of the shed he was not more than
+about three or four feet from the prisoner's window.
+
+Listening a while he could shortly distinguish words being uttered by the
+prisoner. Among them were these:
+
+"Murdering! Murdering! George! George! they want to get me out of the
+way."
+
+Mr. Gibson then spoke to him saying:
+
+"Why don't you try and get out of there?"
+
+The prisoner instantly replied:
+
+"I'll promote you! I'll promote you!"
+
+Mr. Gibson remained upon the shed from three o'clock until seven in the
+morning, while his mother stood at the window.
+
+Being fully satisfied that there was a poor miserable man kept confined in
+the little room of Herriges house, deprived of his liberty, and not only
+that but that he was kept in a filthy condition to judge from the horrible
+stench that issued from the window, the watcher resolved to report the
+fact to the authorities.
+
+
+REPORT TO THE POLICE.
+
+The same morning Mr. Gibson went up to the Union Street Station House and
+reported what he had seen and heard. But instead of investigating the
+affair, the lieutenant told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Central Station
+House at Fifth and Chestnut and report the matter to lieutenant Charles
+Thomas in charge there.
+
+Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas replied:
+
+"Excuse me, but you tell the Lieutenant down at the Station House, that I
+cannot open an insane asylum."
+
+At this moment the Mayor chanced to pass down through the basement, and
+the matter being called to his attention, he said to Lieutenant Thomas:
+
+"Send Reeder down to investigate it."
+
+Lieutenant Thomas replied:
+
+"Had I not better attend to it myself?"
+
+Mr. Gibson then left the office.
+
+The officers came down about four o'clock that afternoon.
+
+About an hour before the arrival of the officers, Mr. Gibson and his
+mother went into the cigar store, kept by Herriges.
+
+"Good afternoon," said Mr. Gibson.
+
+"Good afternoon," replied Herriges.
+
+"What have you got that man locked up in that room for?" asked Mrs.
+Gibson.
+
+"Is that any of your business?" asked Herriges abruptly.
+
+"Well, I don't know, that it is, but I would like to know what he is
+penned up there for?"
+
+"Does my brother annoy you?" inquired Herriges.
+
+"Well, yes, he frightens my children," replied Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"You must have very funny kind of children to what other people have"
+sneeringly remarked Herriges.
+
+"I don't know that they are any funnier than anybody else's children" said
+Mrs. Gibson.
+
+Herriges then turned upon Mrs. Gibson and said in a very provoking manner.
+
+"Why, it is a wonder, he don't frighten you, too."
+
+Mr. Gibson, taking it up for his mother, then said:
+
+"Yes, he did frighten my mother very much last night."
+
+"Well, if my brother frightens you so, you had better move out of the
+house, as quick as you can" said Herriges.
+
+"I will, if you only will give me back what money is coming to me" said
+Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"No, I won't give you any money back" answered Herriges.
+
+"Well," said Mrs. Gibson, "I can't afford to pay you a month's rent in
+advance, and then move some where else and pay another month's rent in
+advance too."
+
+Herriges then began to talk so offensively insolent, that Mr. Gibson and
+his mother were obliged to leave the store. They at once went down town to
+see about another house, for Mrs. Gibson had been rendered so exceedingly
+nervous by the startling events of the past few days that she was almost
+sick.
+
+By the time Mr. Gibson and his mother had returned home from their house
+hunting, the officers had arrived, and brought the insane man down stairs.
+
+After that the back of Herriges house was shut tightly up. The next day
+the officers came down again and removed the insane man in a carriage to
+the Central Station.
+
+During the time that Gibsons lived in the house, if Mr. Gibson at any time
+got up to drive a nail in the fence or side of the house to fasten a
+clothes line to, or, as on occasion to fix wire to bold stove pipe,
+Herriges would come out in a hurry and order him to get down and not do
+it; saying it would destroy the property; but as Mr. Gibson now thinks to
+prevent him getting near the window of the room where John was.
+
+
+THE EFFORT TO GET THE GIBSONS AWAY.
+
+After the discovery of the affair, on the following Thursday June 16th a
+sister of Herriges, Mrs. Mary Ann Hurtt came down to Mr. Gibson's house.
+
+"Good morning, Mrs. Gibson," said she.
+
+"Good morning, ma'm," replied Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"I am Joseph's sister."
+
+"Do you mean Joseph Herriges?" asked Mrs. Gibson.
+
+"Yes," answered she, "and I want to know, whether you can't move away from
+here? I will give you every cent of the rent you have paid, back again. I
+will make you a handsome present besides, and reward you and be a friend
+to you as long as you live. Perhaps when you get old you will need a
+friend. I will do this if you will not appear against Joseph."
+
+Mrs. Gibson answered:
+
+"Charity begins at home, and it is not likely you will befriend me, if you
+couldn't befriend your own brother, fastened up there in that cage of a
+room!"
+
+At this moment Mr. Gibson came in, and his mother whispered to him:
+
+"That's that Herriges sister in the corner there."
+
+Some neighbor in the room said to Mrs. Hurtt:
+
+"There is that young man," referring to Mr. Gibson.
+
+Mrs. Hurtt then said to him:
+
+"Can't you drop that case?"
+
+"No," said Mr. Gibson, "it is in the hands of the authorities."
+
+Mrs. Hurtt said:
+
+"Then move out of the neighborhood, and I will pay you back what rent you
+have paid, and will make you a handsome present, if you will leave the
+city."
+
+"No," said Mr. Gibson, "I would not leave the city for ten thousand
+dollars."
+
+He then whispered to his mother:
+
+"You keep her here till I go out and get an officer to arrest her."
+
+He then went out; and finding an officer on the corner, told him the
+facts, but the officer said he could do nothing in the matter.
+
+Mr. Gibson then started up to the Mayor's Office, but he met the Mayor in
+Fifth Street above Walnut, to whom he stated the facts. The Mayor walked
+along to the Office with him, and there told Lieutenant Thomas to have a
+warrant issued for the arrest of the sister, who had thus endeavored to
+get Mr. Gibson out of the way. Mr. Gibson having made the charge under
+oath, the warrant issued.
+
+When he returned, Mrs. Hurtt had left his house and gone into her
+brother's house. He stood on the pavement awhile to see if she would come
+out. She did not do so, and then he went to the door and asked where that
+lady was who had been in his house that morning about that business.
+
+Old Mrs. Herriges said:
+
+"Come in and see her."
+
+"No," said he, "let her come out here."
+
+She then came to the door, and Mr. Gibson told Officer Koniwasher to
+arrest her, that there was a warrant in Lieutenant Thomas' hands and that
+was on his order. Koniwasher told Mr. Gibson to go up to the Station
+House, get the warrant from Lieutenant Thomas, bring it down and he would
+wait till he came back. Mr. Gibson did so and Lieutenant Thomas gave the
+warrant to Mr. Gibson and sent an Officer along with him, who came back
+with Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Hurtt was arrested.
+
+In about half an hour the party started back to the Central Station
+accompanied by Joseph Herriges, the brother, who said to Mr. Gibson:
+
+"Just look at the trouble you have brought on me now!" to which he made no
+reply.
+
+At this moment the mob began to yell out:
+
+"Lynch him! Knife him! Kill him!"
+
+Herriges said to the Officers: "Officers protect me!"
+
+The Officers closed round them to protect them, and when a car came, put
+the whole party in it and so reached the Central Station House, where Mrs.
+Hurtt denied in the most positive manner having ever said anything on the
+subject to Mr. Gibson more, than offering him whatever rent was coming to
+him, in fact she denied having made any other proposition about the matter
+at all.
+
+At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from _The Day_ newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: "_Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years_."
+
+"The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. _That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify._"
+
+"Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation."
+
+The friends of Herriges have asserted that the matter of his brother's
+being kept locked up in the little room was made public by the Gibsons for
+malicious purposes or to obtain money from him; because the neighbors all
+around knew for at least seventeen years past that this insane man had
+been kept in the house and that none of them had ever complained about it.
+
+So far from this being true, the Gibsons utterly refused all offers of
+reward made by the Sister to induce them to leave the city and drop the
+case of Herriges. Moreover they not only did not owe any rent but as will
+be seen from the receipt already given paid their month's rent in advance
+fully and honestly. Still further after Herriges refused to give them back
+what rent would be coming to them, if they removed, they secured another
+house down town, and moved away from the one they rented of Herriges,
+though they did not give up the key till the full month had expired. Mrs.
+Gibson and her son told us they did this because of Herriges refusal to
+refund them the rent that would be due them.
+
+And Mrs. Gibson who is a lady of nervous temperament, assured us that her
+constant dread was that at some time this maniac or idiot would break out
+of his little cagelike room and get into her house and kill herself and
+her children. And it requires no fervid imagination to believe this, when
+it is remembered that her window and that of the crazy man were not more
+than twelve feet apart with a shed between them extending seven or eight
+feet. Then in the day time she would see him handling the wooden bars at
+his window and glaring out between the slats, while in the stillness of
+the night she would hear him mumbling, cursing and making noises as she
+thought like some one trying to get loose. If that would not terrify a
+mother lying alone with her little children at night we hardly know what
+would.
+
+_The Above is a correct Narrative._
+
+  THOMAS J. GIBSON, Jr.
+
+
+THE VICTIM RELEASED.
+
+When the Policemen arrived for the purpose of releasing John Herriges,
+they found that great efforts had been made to cleanse him as well as the
+room in which he had been kept. They at once took the captive down stairs
+and out in the street where the light seemed to stun him. Joseph Herriges
+was now arrested and taken to the Central Station, where he was bound over
+in the sum of five thousand dollars to answer the charge of thus inhumanly
+treating his unfortunate brother. John was, on the evidence of Doctors
+Mayers and Betts sent to the Insane Department at Blockley Almshouse.
+
+
+THE HOUSE MOBBED.
+
+Of course it spread like wildfire in the neighborhood of Herriges house
+that the police had visited it, and found there a man who had been
+confined for nearly his whole life-time in a little cage of a room. In
+consequence a great multitude of curious people at once collected on
+Fourth Street and Lombard Street, and as the story was repeated from mouth
+to mouth, a feeling of anger spread through the assembled hundreds that
+quickly broke out into violent demonstrations.
+
+Hoots and yells and curses were indulged in, and such cries as:
+
+"Burn the d----d house down! Bring out the infernal wretches! Lynch them!
+Tear them out! Hang them! Poor fellow! how horrible to keep him that way!
+Down with the shanty boys!"
+
+At this moment some person in the midst of the mob hurled a stone at the
+wooden image that stands at the entrance to the store. This was like a
+spark in a train of gunpowder, and amidst a shower of missiles a rush was
+made for the apparently fated dwelling.
+
+But at this juncture some one shouted out:
+
+"Back! back! there's only old women in the house! He's run away for the
+police!"
+
+This stopped the rush, and without doubt saved the building from speedy
+demolition at the hands of the enraged mob.
+
+Meantime Herriges himself had walked out of the house and started up
+Fourth Street, on his way to the station-house to obtain a force of
+policemen to protect his property from the threatened attack. He was at
+once discovered and recognized by the infuriated people, who with one
+accord dashed after him with frightful yells and cries of
+
+"Kill him! Run him up to the lamp-post!"
+
+It was about this time that several gentlemen connected with the newspaper
+press arrived on the scene for the purpose of obtaining particulars of the
+case.
+
+On entering the dwelling, Herriges' mother, a very old; and as the
+reporters describe her, "weasaned faced woman," seized one of them and
+begged him to save her.
+
+"Oh, save me! for the mob is throwing bricks and stones at the house! They
+are going to burn it down, and burn us all alive in it."
+
+She was assured that she would be protected, and that no harm would befal
+her; and a special messenger was despatched to the police station to have
+a powerful posse of men hurried down to save the place. Each moment the
+mob was growing larger and increasing in the violence of its
+demonstrations, and had not the force of police arrived shortly after
+this, there is no doubt but that the house would have been torn completely
+down, and perhaps burned. Happily, however, such a result was averted by
+prompt action on the part of the authorities.
+
+The newspaper gentlemen, thereupon, had ample opportunity to proceed with
+their visit of inquiry.
+
+A respectable looking woman led the way up stairs ascending which required
+more than ordinary effort, not only on account of their wretched
+condition, but also on account of the frightful stench that came from the
+late abode of the imbecile.
+
+This person informed the visitors that two rooms had been set apart for
+the use of John. The "parlor" as she called the den on the first or ground
+floor was entirely destitute of any furniture but the remains of an
+ancient sofa, a regular skeliton with nothing left but the wooden slats.
+Over this was a horribly filthy quilt. This was the imbecile's "parlor."
+His "bed-room" was the cage to which reference has already been made. The
+scanty glimmering light that forced its way in between the wooden slats
+nailed across the window was just sufficient to show the efforts that had
+been so hurriedly but abortively made to cleanse the den.
+
+Most prominent was a bed freshly placed there and covered with a middling
+good coverlet. One of the gentlemen remarked as he noticed this.
+
+"Ah, I see you have put a bed in here. There was none when John was taken
+out."
+
+"Oh, yes it was," said the woman quickly. "The bed was always here, but we
+have put a spread over it. We did not do any thing else."
+
+"Yes you have done something else," was the rejoinder. "You scraped away
+several inches of filth off this floor, and whitewashed and scrubbed it,
+it is all wet yet."
+
+"Oh well," said she, "the poor old woman down there was not able to keep
+him clean at all. She is eighty years old and the most devoted loving
+mother possible, feeding him with her own hands and providing for him
+every delicacy, like strawberries and such things as that."
+
+"Well, now what was the reason you had John confined here?"
+
+"John studied too hard when he tried to get into the High School and
+turned his brain. When he was first wrong his brother Joseph, who is the
+kindest hearted man alive, had him taken to a public institution; but his
+mother got uneasy about him and he was brought home again; and Dr. Goddard
+was called in to attend him. The doctor said he needed nothing but
+kindness and skillful nursing, which they gave him with an affection
+beautiful to behold."
+
+In reply to an inquiry of how long the poor fellow had been locked up in
+this room, she said:
+
+"He wasn't locked up here at all. He had the range of the whole house."
+
+"How long has he been out of his mind?" asked a gentleman.
+
+"Somewhere about eighteen years."
+
+"Are you a relation of his?"
+
+"Oh, no, I am only a neighbor, and came in to stay with his poor old
+mother, who is nearly scared to death."
+
+"Has he any relatives except his mother and brother?"
+
+"Yes, he has four sisters."
+
+About this time Joseph Herriges, nearly dead with fright, returned with
+the police force, and expressed great gratification at the presence of the
+reporters, in order that they might tell his part of the story, and thus
+have _reliable_ facts to give to the public instead of a pack of lies told
+by the neighbors. He said:
+
+"John, when a boy, was very intellectual, and I had resolved to give him a
+good education, so I got him into the public school, also into a night
+school, and had him taught penmanship as well as cigar-making.
+
+"Once when he attended a lecture he fell as he came down stairs, and
+struck his head such a violent blow that he never was the same boy
+afterwards, but gradually lost his mind. That has been about twelve years
+ago."
+
+It will be noticed here that the woman had previously stated eighteen
+years. This was the first discrepancy. Herriges continued:
+
+"I took him to the almshouse, where he was under Dr. Robert Smith's care
+for a month. Then his mother and his sister _here_ visited every day."
+[Here Herriges pointed to the woman who had positively said she was only a
+_neighbor_.] "At last, to please mother, I brought him home and called in
+Doctor Gardner, who said, after a long attendance, that he could do him no
+good. I have devoted my life to that boy, and washed him every day, and
+attended to his wants whenever I attended to my own, and combed and fed
+him."
+
+"Then how is it that his hair and beard have become just like felted cloth
+with filth, and how is it that he is covered from head to foot with
+vermin?"
+
+"What! how!" exclaimed Herriges with a decidedly mixed expression on his
+countenance. "Was there vermin? Well I don't know how he got them. I never
+saw any that's certain."
+
+"Was he so very violent that you kept him locked up in this cage?"
+
+"Oh, no, John was always as gentle as a lamb."
+
+"Then what are those iron and wooden slats at that window for?"
+
+"Oh, well, we were afraid that he might take a fit some time and get into
+the street and say strange things."
+
+At this juncture of the garbled narrative, Herriges became flurred, and
+begged the reporters to do him justice, repeating the words.
+
+"Now you will do me justice, won't you? You see they say I have kept him
+imprisoned in this way to get his share of the property. He has not got a
+cent in the world, for this house is only the property of mother during
+her life time. It is all she has and when she dies it will have to be
+divided among the whole six of us."
+
+"But look here," interrupted a gentlemen of the party, "what about those
+houses on Lombard street and the houses on Fourth street?"
+
+"Oh, those are all my own," answered he. "I worked and earned them
+myself."
+
+The questioner replied.
+
+"But you told me this morning that your father died in Oregon and left all
+his property to you alone. How do you make that agree with this last
+statement?"
+
+"Don't interrupt me. You confuse me, and put me out. I am trying to tell a
+straight story and you throw me out. I'll tell you again exactly all."
+
+He then repeated his former statement and wound up with a fresh appeal to
+be done justly by; which seemed in his mind to mean that his statement
+alone should be given to the public. But he was told that Mrs. Gibson's
+story would be published as well as his own, whereupon another sister,
+who had just arrived on the scene, pronounced Mrs. Gibson a liar, and
+added her solicitations to have that part of the history suspended.
+
+On a subsequent visit, the sister who had represented herself as only a
+neighbor, repeated the statements that been previously made by her and her
+brother with a few more variations and contradictions. For instance she
+remarked that the papers said John was a boy of eight years old when he
+was first put in the cage, or little room, "Now that is false, for he was
+between twenty-three and twenty-four when he went insane." On the previous
+day she had said that he went crazy when he was trying to get into the
+High School.
+
+
+TRYING TO GET GIBSON AWAY.
+
+On June 16th, Alderman Kerr gave one of the sisters, Mary Ann Hurtt, who
+resides at 707 Girard Avenue, a hearing on the charge of tampering with
+the witness, Mrs. Gibson's son.
+
+Mr. Thomas J. Gibson, Jr., residing at 337 Lombard Street, testified that
+Mrs. Hurtt came to his house and asked him whether he could not drop that
+case and get out of the way, so as not to testify, saying that if he would
+she would pay him back all the rent he had paid her for the place he was
+occupying, and would make him a handsome present besides that.
+
+The whole statement was most vehemently denied by the accused, who,
+however, was held in five hundred dollars bail to answer the charge at
+court. Her brother Joseph entered the required security.
+
+
+THE VICTIM REMOVED TO THE ALMSHOUSE.
+
+As soon as Alderman Kerr made the requisite order to that effect, the poor
+imbecile who had been shut up in his cage for so long a time was placed in
+a carriage and taken promptly to Blockley Almshouse.
+
+The attendants and officials who received him aver that in all their
+experience they have never seen such a heart-rending sight as was John
+Herriges when brought to the institution. And this, it will be
+recollected, was after the poor wretch had been submitted to the partial
+cleansing that his relatives gave him immediately after the visit paid
+them by Mrs. Gibson in relation to the captive.
+
+At once, upon his arrival at the hospital of the almshouse, he was
+stripped of the slight filthy salt-bag petticoat, and his body submitted
+to a thorough but careful scrubbing, after which the flesh was, with equal
+care, rubbed until the natural color of the skin began to make its
+appearance through the deep stain of accumulated filth of so many years.
+
+Next his hair was clipped short, after which fully half an inch of solid
+filth and dirt, as hard and tough as leather, was scraped away from his
+scalp. After all this was done, which occupied a long time, he was dressed
+in a clean suit of the material used for the clothing of the inmates and
+placed in a cell, in which, also, he was securely locked at night, to
+prevent him harming either himself or others. But this was ascertained to
+be entirely unnecessary, as the poor fellow was as docile and quiet as a
+lamb.
+
+After his face was cleaned off, the peculiar pallor of his countenance,
+resulting from the great length of time he was imprisoned in his noisome
+cell, was almost unearthly and strangely striking.
+
+The muscles of his body were like so many flabby strings, from being never
+brought into exercise, rendering him very feeble, though naturally, to
+judge from the size of his frame, he would be a man of great physical
+strength.
+
+At first, after his release, his favorite position was a kind of sitting
+squatting posture, with the hands resting upon the knees, the back bent,
+and head hanging down.
+
+If ordered to get up, he would do so promptly, but rather slowly, as he
+was obliged to remove his hands from his knees and place them on the back
+of his hips. He would get up and stand like a bent over statue.
+
+"Now then, John, walk along."
+
+At this order he would shuffle forward for a step or two, or about the
+length of the cage in which he had been confined, and then manifest a
+desire to turn round and shuffle back, like a sentry walking his beat.
+
+An attendant took his arm, however, saying:
+
+"Come, John, walk straight now; lean on me."
+
+This kindness appeared strange to him, and he made great efforts to
+straighten up and walk the same way as his friend, looking meanwhile
+surprised, perhaps to think he could get so far, and that some one could
+speak kindly to him.
+
+His appetite was good, and he would eat whatever was given him with
+evident relish. In fact he could be compared to nothing more than an
+automaton, a human machine, as will be seen from the following
+conversation which a gentlemen held with him.
+
+"John, where is your right arm?"
+
+"There," was the reply, as he turned his head and looked at his arm,
+partially raising the member.
+
+"Raise your left arm."
+
+Instantly he would raise it.
+
+"Hold your head back."
+
+He did it.
+
+"That will do, John, now open your mouth."
+
+It was done.
+
+
+[Illustration: The Policeman releasing the Victim from his cage.
+
+Der Polizist befreit das unglueckliche Opfer aus seinem Kaefig.]
+
+
+"Shut it."
+
+"John, where are you living now?"
+
+Of this question he took no notice.
+
+"Do you like to live here?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"Where did you live before you came here?"
+
+No answer, but a look of half inquiry flitted over John's face.
+
+"Did you not live at Fourth and Lombard Streets?"
+
+"Oh, yes."
+
+"For how long a time?"
+
+No reply, but the same thoughtful look as before.
+
+A variety of other questions was put to the imbecile, to all of which he
+invariably gave quick and correct replies, provided the reply could be
+made in monosyllables. But if it required an answer of several words he
+would remain silent, or apparently trying to think what he should say.
+
+After several days residence at the almshouse he began to lose a
+considerable amount of his former animal stupidity, and if ordered to do
+anything in the same way as when he was first admitted to the institution,
+he would not do it at all, but remain perfectly motionless. This shows
+that his mental feebleness results not so much from natural causes as the
+artificial ones of his long confinement, and a withering isolation from
+the outer world. He will never be himself again, for that would be
+impossible, but it is quite likely that he will recover so far as to
+permit him to enjoy the ease and have that care of kind attendants that
+his share of the property will command.
+
+Comment on the conduct of those relatives from whose charge he has been
+taken is entirely unnecessary. If they have consciences, their feelings
+must be of a rather terrible nature. One thing is certain; poor John will
+be taken good care of in the future, and in Furman Sheppard, Esq., he has
+a friend who will not allow justice to be hoodwinked.
+
+
+A VISIT TO THE VICTIM AT THE ALMSHOUSE HOSPITAL.
+
+Yesterday, in company with Detective Charles Miller, who had charge of the
+investigation of the circumstances of the case, we made a special visit to
+John Herriges, the subject of this sketch.
+
+When we reached the institution, the usual ball, which is periodically
+given to the patients in the insane department, was at its full height,
+and John's nurse, an active and intelligent young man, supposing that the
+happiness and hilarity of the scene would have a beneficial effect upon
+his charge, wheeled him in his chair to the ball room. John seemed
+astonished somewhat, and the excitement took quick effect upon him, making
+him very loquacious, although the words he uttered were so unconnected as
+to be entirely incoherent.
+
+Finding this to be the case, the attendant wheeled his patient to a quiet
+part of the building, where we had a long interview with him. But John
+remained excited, and talked almost constantly about McMullin, the
+veritable William of the Fourth Ward, of murders and burglars, and
+coffins, and kindred subjects. We asked him a number of questions, but
+apart from now and then giving us a semi-intelligent glance, he took no
+notice whatever, until in the midst of it the attendant stepped suddenly
+to one of the insane patients, who, manifesting unusual excitement,
+required prompt securing. This was done by the attendant passing his arms
+round the man, drawing his hands forcibly down and securing them behind,
+as he coaxed him along to a cell.
+
+John Herriges' face instantly lighted up with great animation as he
+exclaimed, pointing to the two:
+
+"Ha! that's the way they kill them, that's it, Mully, Mully good
+fellow!--he! he! he!"
+
+He constantly has this idiotic laugh.
+
+From a gentleman at the institution we gleaned the following in relation
+to the victim and his family, which he assured us was the correct history
+of the affair. In some essential points it seems to conflict with the
+sister's statement made to the reporter of the Sunday Dispatch.
+
+The father's name was Bernard Herriges, who went to Oregon in 1843, and
+settled in Walumet Valley, and there died and left land worth about $400,
+in the executorship of Mr. Glasson and Dr. Theophilus Degan. The will is
+recorded in the probate court of Clarkamas County, Oregon, and explicitly
+directs what is to be done with the property. By some means or other no
+claim was established, and the land referred to was occupied by General
+Abeneathy for twenty years. This information was given in reply to a
+letter that was written in 1868, by Hon. Leonard Myers, member of
+Congress, and sent by him to Oregon.
+
+The mother's original name was Barbara Miller, and she is now in her
+seventy-ninth year. The oldest son, Joseph, is fifty-six. The sisters
+names are Mary Ann, Sophia, Hannah and Ann Margaret. This gentleman states
+that John, the victim, is now forty-five years old, that he was
+twenty-five when he received the injury that resulted in his imbecility,
+and that consequently the confinement has extended more or less over the
+period of twenty years. On the night of the great fire at Vine Street, in
+1850, he received his hurt as he was returning from a lecture, by being
+pushed over a railing down into an area by the rushing crowd, striking his
+head violently in his descent.
+
+In 1847, the family received a letter from Caspar Rudolph, in Oregon,
+asking them to give him a power of attorney to take control of the
+father's possessions there. This document was drawn up by the Hon. William
+D. Baker, signed by all the members of the family, approved before
+Alderman Benn and sent out to Rudolph.
+
+Great praise is due to Doctor Richardson of the Almshouse for the speedy
+improvement his careful treatment has made in John, who is, beyond doubt,
+naturally a very powerful man, has a fine frame and a capitally shaped
+head. But it is certain he will never recover from his imbecility.
+
+The officials in charge of his case from the commencement, also deserve
+great praise for their faithful attention to their disagreeable duty,
+which could not have been performed in a more satisfactory manner.
+Particularly is this true of Officers Coniwasher and Reeder, Lieutenant
+Thomas and Detective Charles Miller.
+
+
+[Illustration: Correct Drawing of the Herriges House at Fourth and
+Lombard. The scene of the Horror.
+
+Genaue Zeichnung des Herriges Hauses an der Vierten und Lombard Strasse.
+Die Scene des Schreckens.]
+
+
+JOSEPH HERRIGES' ACCOUNT.
+
+Since going to press with this history an account of the affair has
+appeared in _THE DAY_, and which we have inserted here with the desire to
+place before the public whatever may be favorable to Mr. Herriges in the
+matter of his brother's confinement. We deem this a matter of mere
+justice.
+
+The reporter having called on Mr. Herriges the following occurred during
+the interview.
+
+We found Joseph Herriges a sensible, gentlemanly and educated person;
+having nothing to conceal, he at once entered into conversation concerning
+his brother; he informed us that John is his only brother, and for whom he
+has always entertained a brotherly affection; in his youthful days he was
+sent to school and educated at Joseph's expense; as a schoolboy he was, in
+literary attainments, about on an average with those attending school at
+that time. It was the elder brother's intention to fit him for the high
+school, and with that intention he not only sent him to the public
+schools, but also sent him to a night school, that he might more rapidly
+advance in his studies. As evidence of the fact, Mr. Herriges brought
+forth an old time receipt-book and showed us the following receipt:
+
+Received January 12, 1838, of Mr. Joseph Herriges, five dollars in full
+for one quarter's tuition of brother John B. Herriges, at evening school,
+including light and stationary.
+
+  $5.          R. O. R. LOUETT.
+
+Reporter--When did the insanity of John begin to develop itself?
+
+Mr. Herriges--It first began to show itself when he was twenty years of
+age. At that time he had only temporary fits of abstraction, which grew
+worse from time to time, until, at the age of twenty-six, he became wholly
+insane, and, what is unusual in insanity, he would never eat anything
+unless fed like an infant. Hunger could not tempt him to eat, nor thirst
+to drink, any more than it could tempt the infant of three months to eat
+or drink without assistance.
+
+Reporter--Why did you not attempt a cure in accordance with the usual
+method?
+
+Mr. Herriges--I did. I became acquainted with Dr. R. K. Smith, who
+informed that a cure might be effected, and in accordance with his
+suggestions, I sent him to the insane department of the almshouse as the
+following will testify.
+
+Mr. Herriges here produced a paper on which the following was written:
+
+    "PHILADELPHIA ALMSHOUSE.
+    June 23, 1870.
+
+    "This is to certify that John B. Herriges was admitted to the insane
+    department of this institution on the 21st day of December 1855, aged
+    twenty-seven years, born in Philadelphia, single, and by occupation a
+    tobacconist, and taken out on liberty and did not return.
+
+    "From the register in agent's office.
+
+    "Attest,
+      ALFRED D. W. CALDWELL,
+        House Agent.
+
+    "Witness present--J. C. FRENO."
+
+Reporter--How long did he remain under treatment there?
+
+Mr. H.--About one month.
+
+Reporter--Why so short a length of time?
+
+Mr H.--During the time he was there he became so emaciated, either from
+improper care in feeding him or from a bad attack of dysentery, that he
+had scarcely any life in him, and his mother insisted on bringing him home
+to nurse him. To save his life and to satisfy mother, I procured a
+carriage and brought him home, where by careful treatment he was restored
+to his usual good health.
+
+Reporter--Why did you permit your brother to remain so dirty?
+
+Mr. H.--It was an impossibility on our part to prevent it.
+
+Reporter--Is it true you kept him confined in the small room overhead as
+it is stated in the papers.
+
+Mr. H.--It is not true; my brother had the range of the house and yard at
+all times, but no more; I could not let him go in the street, for he had
+no appreciation whatever of danger, and he was therefore liable at any
+moment to be run over.
+
+At this point the mother put in an appearance. Introducing ourselves to
+her, she remarked. "I hope you will give a truthful statement of what we
+tell you." Informing her our motto was "Truth without Fear," she appeared
+much better satisfied. We asked her if her son had been much care upon
+her. She informed us he was a constant care; that from the time he was
+about twenty-five years of age there had never a mouthful of food passed
+his lips except what was fed to him as we would feed a helpless infant.
+
+Reporter--What do you assign, madam, as the primary cause of his insanity?
+
+Mrs. H.--At the age of nineteen my son began attending lectures given by
+anti-meat eaters, spiritualists etc., and impressed with their nonsensical
+doctrines, he, about that time, quit eating meat and took to a vegetable
+diet, and I think those lectures, together with this diet, had much to do
+with it.
+
+Reporter--I do not understand how a vegetable diet could cause insanity,
+when it is well known that Horace Greeley is a vegetintarian?
+
+Mrs. H.--Well, isn't he insane sometimes?
+
+Reporter--Mr. Bennett, of the _Herald_, and Dana, of the _Sun_, say he is;
+but they think so because Mr. Greeley venerates a dilapidated white hat,
+wears shocking bad shoes, and is a member of the free love order.
+
+Mrs. H.--Well, those lectures certainly had much to do with his insanity,
+for his disease began to develop soon after his attendance upon them.
+
+Reporter--Some of the papers stated he was confined because of a desire on
+the part of his family to get $40,000, alleged to have been left him and
+to accomplish which, they further intimated that your husband did not die
+a natural death.
+
+Mrs. H.--My son John never had any money in his own right; he has been
+kept, maintained and clothed by his brother Joseph ever since his
+affliction, and indeed long previous to it. As for intimations concerning
+my husband, the whole thing must have originated in the brain of a woman
+of fervid imagination, claiming to have some connection with the _Sunday
+Dispatch_. That lady called to see me, and with acts of kindness, such as
+throwing her arms around me, and informing me she would send a carriage to
+have me taken away for fear the crowd around the house would do me bodily
+injury, and with a promise to give a true account, she got a full and true
+statement of the case; but to my surprise and indignation, published
+nothing but a tissue of falsehoods. How a young woman professing to be a
+lady could so act towards me, an old woman of eighty, I cannot comprehend.
+
+Mrs. Herriges then went on to tell us her poor afflicted boy had been the
+one care of her life; that she took him away from the insane asylum
+because she knew they did not know how to feed him, and that he would soon
+die there if allowed to remain; that she had ever watched over him with
+all the affection of a mother, never wearying in her attendance upon him.
+
+When we asked, "What of your husband?" we were informed that many years
+ago he went to Oregon, took up a section of ground in Villamette valley,
+previous to which he had built himself a house in Oregon City. He died
+about twenty years ago, and the first knowledge we had of it was from a
+Caspar Rudolph, living in Oregon, and who was formerly from this city. A
+power of attorney was sent to Rudolph to enable him to settle the estate.
+Upon his taking the necessary legal steps he learned that Mr. Herriges had
+appointed William Glass and Dr. Theophilus Degan as his executors. He
+further learned these gentlemen had disposed of all his property, a short
+time after which they left Oregon.
+
+After leaving the family we next directed our steps to the insane asylum
+of the almshouse. Arriving there we made ourselves acquainted with Dr.
+Richardson, who has charge of the insane. We found the doctor one of the
+most obliging public officials we have ever met. He appeared to esteem it
+a pleasure to give us all the information he could in regard to the
+insane. The doctor has had charge of the insane since December 1866.
+Previous to that time he was connected with the poor department for many
+years. Informing the doctor our visit was for the purpose of conversing
+with him in relation to John Herriges, he at once informed us the Herriges
+family had received a great and uncalled for injury from the press of this
+city. As for John he was hopelessly insane, and was doubtless so from the
+first. He told us insanity incurable was stamped upon every lineament of
+his countenance, and as for the filthy condition in which he was found
+that signified nothing. His filthy habits appear to come to him
+periodically: that is, every other night he will pass his excrement, after
+which he will smear the walls, floor and his own face and body with it,
+presenting one of the most disgusting sights the doctor ever witnessed.
+The doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and
+instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who
+came under his notice. She acted precisely similar to John Herriges during
+the time she was under his care. The lady was cured however and has
+resumed her place in the fashionable world.
+
+Dr. Richardson also informed us that insanity frequently ran to the
+opposite of dirty habits, one patient, now in the asylum, is continually,
+if allowed, engaged in washing himself; fifty times a day or more would he
+go through his ablutions. And it is more frequently in the other
+direction; we were informed that Herriges cell had to be white-washed and
+cleaned every other day; that he cannot feed himself at all; when John
+first entered the asylum the only meal he seemed to enjoy was his dinner;
+now he eats his breakfast and supper with a relish; in fact he was just
+in the act of taking supper when we paid a visit to John Herriges; we
+found a man of five feet eight inches, weighing about 140 pounds, with a
+skin as white as any lady's in the city; all traces of the dirt the
+_Sunday Dispatch_ had ground into his flesh so deep, as never to be washed
+out, was completely gone, and John presented a better, more gentlemanly
+appearance than any other man in the asylum. Dr. Richardson made the
+remark that John had been fed with food of a diversified character; that
+there was no speck of scrofula appearing upon his body. * * * * * * * He
+requires to be wheeled on a chair to his meals and back again. His food
+has to be put in his mouth, or he would never eat, and, altogether, he is
+one of the most deplorable cases of insanity we have ever seen; and that
+the sober, second thought of the public will award his family due credit
+for what they did for him, there can be no doubt; if not before, at least
+after the trial of Joseph, before a judge and jury shall have taken place.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At the same time we must insert here also the following paragraph, which
+is taken from _The Day_ newspaper of Thursday June 16th. The article is
+headed: "_A Poor Idiot Caged Up In a Filthy Room For Many Years_."
+
+"The defendent * * * claimed that he had given his brother all the
+necessary attention and that the condition of affairs at the house was
+exaggerated by the witnesses. _That this is not the case, our reporter who
+visited the premises in company with Chief Mulholland, Coroner Taylor, and
+other officers can testify._"
+
+"Alderman Kerr stated that he had known the defendant for twenty years,
+and knew him as a man of property and owner of real estate. * * * never
+knew he had a brother living; he was abundantly able to furnish him with
+better accomodation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The facts which we obtained at the Almshouse can be thoroughly relied upon
+as being correct as we got them directly from Detective John O'Grady who
+had been detailed specially by Mayor Fox in conjunction with Detective
+Benjamin Franklin to work up the facts in the case. Officer O'Grady went
+to the Herriges house and searched it thoroughly the day that the trunk
+and bags were taken away from the premises. There were the wildest rumors
+in regard to this circumstance which were entirely unjust as the trunk and
+bags contained nothing only valuable papers which Herriges, fearing the
+house would be mored down by the mob, wished to save by thus removing
+them.
+
+Officers O'Grady and Franklin merit special commendation for the manner in
+which they worked up their part of the case.
+
+
+[Illustration: Likeness of the Brother and Mother of the Victim.
+
+Bildniss von dem Bruder und der Mutter des ungluecklichen Opfers.]
+
+
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