Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Drank Bottle of Peruna and Was Sent to Insane Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Drank Bottle of Peruna and Was Sent to Insane Asylum.

Sheriff Hoover this Wednesday morning took William Llewellyn to Remington, where he turned him over to the sheriff of Newton county and the latter took him to the asylum at Longojiffe. Llewellyn is a character well known in Rensselaer, Remington and Brook. He is a shoe maker and a first-class mechanic but has for many years been a slave to the liquor habit. He has gone down to the ditch after making many struggles to reform and now he is almost a total physical wreck. His mind, however, seems sound except when he is full of booze or some other substitute and at the time he was adjudged insane he is said to have been suffering from the effects of having drank a bottle of Peruna. Bill had heard that Peruna had alcohol in it and is said to have purchased a bottle and disposed of it alt at one time. The effect was Just what Bill expected and before he had recovered frbm the influence of the dose a sanity inquest had beeaeonducted and he had been declared insane. He will probably not have to long remain in the asylum as he is perfectly sane, so Sheriff Hoover contends, and he had him as a jail guest for a week.