A CHURCH SENSATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 5

A CHURCH SENSATION.

Worshippers at the German Baptist Church, on Fourteenth-street, Boston, Were treated to a sonsation recuntly In the middle of tho service, a tall, slender, sallowfaced young mm of about 30 years rose in a paw in the centre aisle, clasped a youug lady who sat near him by the waist, drew her face to hia and frantically embraced her. They wore the only occu pints of that pew. Oilier members of the congregation looked on cmnzod and inactive. The your>& lady screamed, but the young man, not relaxing hict in the letisr, sent forth a succession oi ear-spliting sboute. The, pastor, K<,\\ G A. Schulte, who had suspended hi* sermon at the first outcry, left the puipifc and came down the aisle. When ho tried to take the young man out of the p<»w ho fouad that ho had a big contracl/ on his hand? Others came to his asbistasico, and the Jady was releaped, and immediately faint«d from excitement and horror. The pastor walked the young man up and do \>n the aisle, exhorting him in soothing tones to calm hin^elt. This treatment was unsuccessful, the man bocom'ng more violent each moment. Ho waa taken to the KCafiion-houso on a stretcher, i-ut when he got there it taok several policemen to hold him down. He was evidently dangerously insane, and was taken to the Bollcvuo Hospita', where the eurgeons cont.igned him to a padded cell. ■ Dr. Schultb, pastor of tho church, says the ! young man has been a regular attendant there for several yearn. He is Corneliuß Hendrjckson, a clerk, out ot employment^ living with a relative ai, 13S, Es->ex-sfcreet. His miod has been ufFecteU for a number of years, sottsning of the brain havint? ro^ suited froLa un old eickne^s He was hitherto mild and harmless ia lih demeanor. He was absent from home all Christmas day, and attended the Chrigtoias night service at rho church. Nothing out of the way was then observed ia his conduct.