and underneath:
Prison walls could not confine Miss Nancy Lee, who last week
threw a lighted lamp at her mother, setting fire to the house,
and then attempted suicide. The young woman seems to have
recovered her senses, and professes to know nothing of what
happened, but the physicians say she is liable to another attack
of insanity, and deem it safe to keep her confined. She escaped
during the night, leaving no clew to her whereabouts. How she
managed to get open the window through which she left the asylum
is still a mystery.
In disgust he flung the paper from him and took up another.