Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Not Evidence of Insanity. [ARTICLE]

Not Evidence of Insanity.

A wealthy old lady in Indiana got tired of living single aud advertised that she would pa.y some nice young man $20,000 to marry her. The nice young man was forthcoming; aud her relatives, to stop the proceedings, tried to have the old lady declared insane. But the jury of lunacy concluded that wanting a husband was no evidence of insanity and decided that she was sane. To prevent further annoyance by relatives she eloped with the young man to an adjoining town, where they were married and she handed over the S2O,(MX) check.