A Pretty Girl Becomes Insane

Steele Scrapbook – January 24, 1885

A PRETTY GIRL BECOMES INSANE.

Special Dispatch to The North American.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—A handsome twenty-year-old Hungarian girl named Xenia Orli, well known among artists as a model, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital yesterday from the Working Girls’ Home, 140 east Fourteenth street, suffering from insanity. She had been ailing some time mentally, but only became violent Friday night, when she threatened to throw herself out of the window to escape imaginary enemies. The girl has always kept her private affairs to herself, and all that is known about her is that she came from Paris four years ago, where she had some trouble with her family and separated from them

 


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