Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — MAD, SHE RISKS 30 LIVES [ARTICLE]

MAD, SHE RISKS 30 LIVES

Swimming Mistress Goes. Insane, Swims Out to Sea and Orders Pupils to FollowCopenhagen.—A young swimming mistress went suddenly mad while instructing a class of thirty girls In the sea at Helslngborg, in Sweden. She swam out to sea and ordered all the girls to follow her and swim to Elsinore, in Denmark, five miles away. All the girls but one followed her out to sea. The solitary one who dis-‘ obeyed swam back to shore and called for help. Several motor boats pat out and caught the swimmers far out at sea. Hie girls were all picked up. but the mad mistress was only oaught as she was sinking near the Danish coast She was taken to an asylum without delay. ■ 1' '