SHE LEFT SIX CHILDREN

Quincy Daily Herald October 1, 1895

Peoria Mother Elopes and Comes to Quincy

Her Husband Sends a Letter to Marshal Reagan Requesting, His Assistance is Bringing Her to Justice

In his mall this morning Marshal Reagan received the following letter:

Peoria, ill., Sept. 29 —Mr. Captain- I would like to ask you to look for a man and woman that come there last Monday to run a House of ill fame & saloon. They are living together. The woman is my wife and she hasn't got a divorce from me yet and they are living together as man and wife I understand and now I wish you would search your city and find them and look them both up and let me know as soon as possible and I will come to help prosecute them. I think they had ought to be put through, she is a mother of six children, and she is about five feet tall, black hair, dark eyes, weight about 150 lb, dark complexion, dressed in black when on the street, when around the house a pink rapper trimmed with black lace. I will send you, a picture of her so you can tell about how she looks. Her right name is Molly A. Pulsipher. I understand she goes by the name of Anna Smith. The man she is living with is a heavy set, dark hair, five feet and one half tall. You will find them around a house of ill fame and I would like to have you attend to it at once and let me know at once if they are there for I think such people need looking after. His name is Cody. If they are not there please find out where they went if you can and Oblige me by doing so Please answer and return Pulsipher 517-519 Fulton St Peoria Ill.

The street number given is identical with that of the Empire livery stable of Peoria, and the letter is written on note paper bearing the printed card of the stables. Mr. Pulsipher Is probably employed there. The marshal will endeavor to locate the run away couple. The photograph enclosed in the letter shows the woman in the case to be a buxom, with hands the size of Blomor & Michael's hams. Cody either did not choose her for her winsome appearance or else has decidedly peculiar Ideas of beauty.

HUSBAND'S RETURN THWARTS TRAGEDY

Urbana Courier-Herald March 29, 1912

WIFE BECOMES INSANE DURING
HIS ABSENCE.
Three-year-old Boy Alone With Demented Mother —Imagined Child
Had Been Called to Heaven.

When George Morgan, a postal clerk on the Illinois Central, went on his run the other day, he left his wife and three-year-old son, a beautiful child, happy and in good health. When he returned late Monday afternoon he found the little fellow terrified at the queer actions of his mother, who had become a raving maniac during his absence. She told him that God had called her and the boy to heaven, and Morgan believes that his return prevented a double tragedy.

Is Adjudged Insane
Mrs. Morgan of Champaign was adjudged insane and committed to the Eastern Illinois Hospital at Kankakee, by a jury in county court on Thursday afternoon. The jury was composed of Dr. J. Bartholow, John Heppe, Jesse M. Sadorus, George Riley. R, A. Sturgeon and Z. Alsip. The case is a peculiar one. Mrs. Morgan had never manifested symptoms of insanity until last Monday. When her husband returned from his run that evening she refused to prepare his supper, and when he started to get the evening meal for himself and their little son, she run screaming out of doors, alarming the neighborhood

She finally was quieted and returned to the house. Even then Morgan did not realize that she had lost her reason, thinking that something dreadful had happened during his absence to agitate her.

Fears For Child's Life.
Mrs. Morgan had always been devoted to the little boy, but that night when he asked her to put him to bed she replied, "I don't want anything to do with you." Then she told her husband that God had called her and the child to heaven. Morgan then realized that something was seriously wrong, and fearing that she would kill herself and the boy, called a physician. Several medical men have examined the unfortunate woman, but are unable to explain the cause of her sudden attack of insanity.

"I knoow something is the matter with me," she said on the witness stand. "There's something pressing against my brain."

Prior to her marriage Mrs. Morgan was Miss Susie K.Birch, for many years bookkeeper for W. Lewis & Co.