Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1910 — Supposed Insane Man Writes Intelligent Letter to Clerk. [ARTICLE]

Supposed Insane Man Writes Intelligent Letter to Clerk.

W. H. Kearney, the mysterious man confined at the county jail, continues to mystify the sheriff of Jasper county and others who have interested themselves in the case. After refusing to talk for many days and taking no nourishment for ten days, he seems to have been entirely aroused by the pint of milk which the jail physician and four helpers managed to get down his throat by means of a tube. He has since eaten three square meals a day and now talks freely about himself and is anxious to be set at liberty. He inquired of the sheriff Monday what chances there were of getting out and was informed that the authorities of Newton county had made application to have him sent to the insane asylum and that perhaps he might forestall the action by writing a letter to Reuben Hess, the clerk of Newton county He was furnished with paper and a pencil and wrote a 'well-worded and thoroughly rational letter, stating that he was now all right and wished to be released in order to permit him to work his way to Buffalo, N. Y., where he says his father lives. The writing was legible, indicated that the man frequently handled a pencil and the letter, aside from a few mispelled words, which may have been intentional, was a very able epistle. It is probable that Kearney will be released from the jail ;n a few days. The., mystery surrounding him really deepens as his faculties are resto.ea.