Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — Life-Saving Wit. [ARTICLE]

Life-Saving Wit.

Au Instance of extraordinary presence of mind on the part of a 7-year-old girl Is reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The girl’s name Is Agnes McCullough. , Her grandmother a woman of 70 years, had shown signs of mental aberration for several weeks, but no one had thought of her as liable to commit violence. One morning, however, when Agnes and the old lady were alone In an upper room, the grandmother seized a butch-er-knife which bad been lying on tbe table, and ran for the child, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, partially

dressed. The Insane woman grabbed the girl by the hair and screamed: “Now I’ll kill yon! You are none of my children!” The little girl, with Intuition remarkable for her years, realized that she was in the gragp of an insane person! “Grandma, don’t get the blood on the bedclothes. Wait till I get a towel,” she said. The woman released her hold on the child’s hair, and she ran down into the kitchen, where she told her mother. The two hurried to the police station, and an ambulance removed the old woman to the hospital.