1841-02-26-Albany Argus-Melancholy Delusion

Melancholy Delusion

Source: Albany NY Argus, 26 February 1841, p. 2.

Melancholy Delusion

MELANCHOLY DELUSION.—A man named Joseph Ackland, residing at 125 Third avenue, was committed to prison for resisting the coroner on Wednesday. Ackland had just lost a child, aged three days; and, under the delusion that he could restore it to life, he not only refused the coroner admission, but attacked with a club the officers who came to the assistance of Dr. Archer. The poor fellow is a religious maniac, and is said to be a Mormon.——[N. Y. paper.