CRAZED BY LOVE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 353, 23 March 1889, Page 4

CRAZED BY LOVE.

Tin, Chicago January ' News ' special 1 fiom Philadelphia says : Miss Florence E. Haflan, daughter of the la Judge Ilaflan, of the Federal Court at Vicksburg, Miss., and a belle in fashionable society, was yesterday committed to the insane asylum near Bridesburgf. She was arrested on complaint ot Dr. Charles N. Williams, a son of Justice Williams of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, whom she Mas once engaged to mairy. The couple h"i>t met heie six yeais ago. Williams was then a dashing young student at the Pennsylvania University, and Aliss Haffan wa.s a browneyed, rosy-checked beauty of it, occupying a proud social position. On his second \isitfo her home Williams proposed and was accepted, agreeing that the marriage should tako place after his graduation. By that tune, however, he changed his plans and coldly said the mairiage could not take place. Williams then left the city, but leturned about a year ago, and the young woman began to haunt his footsteps. Thursday she took her stand before his office door saying she would not leave until he had kept his pledge. She remained seven hour? without iood or drink. Her persistency ansrored Williams and he had her arrested. Friday morning she was leleasod, being sane apparently on other subjects, and again took her stand before his place of business. She was again arrested and after a hearing yesterday was committed to the asylum. The hearing was most dramatic. Miss Haffan's afflictions had not robbed her of her beauty and her gentle manner, which, added to her exquisite diess and modesty, enlisted general sympathy. With large tears couit-ing down her cheeks she pleaded with "Dr. Williams not to cast her oIF, protesting her love in passionate teims. Her mother, who has since married David 8. Root, the aitist, substantiated the main points of her story, but Williams wat, cold as steel. Once she advanced and said : ' Charles, be a man and acknowledge that j you promised to marry me.' ' I never made such a promise, ' was his answer. ' You lie,' Mis-s Haflan paid, quietly adding : ' Think of all the misery you have caused me. 1 She offered no ic-Mstance to the officials who conducted her into a cab, but kept her reproachful eyes fastened on Williams until the door closed upon his form.