From the Sept. 28, 1905 NYT:

Alleging that her husband had compelled her to go around their home on roller skates and had done other strange things, Mrs. Emma Kopp appeared before Justice Garretson in Special Term of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, and opposed his release from the Long Island Home for the Insane in Amityville...Mrs. Kopp in her affidavit said that he had for some time taken fifteen or twenty drinks of whisky each day, and on some days had consumed two quarts.

He acquired a passion for kite flying and purchased fifteen kites. Later he bought a number of pairs of roller skates and compelled her to use them. He brought ten dogs of various breeds and sizes into the house on one day, and on antoehr he carried fifteen framed pictures to his home. On another occasion Mr. Kopp bought 200 padlocks and tried to fashem them all to his trunk.

Justice Garretson remanded the man to the sanitarium.

Poor guy. Today he would have had an all-expenses paid trip to Chicago or some other city to be the object of ridicule or fascination (depending on one's take) on one of the daily shows. Of course, fifteen to twenty snorts of whisky a day will make just about anybody "crazy."