Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1913 — Daughter of Peter May Found of Unsound Mind. [ARTICLE]

Daughter of Peter May Found of Unsound Mind.

A sanity board was convened by Squire Irwin Tuesday to pass upon the mental condition of Mrs. Helen Shumway, daughter of Mrs. Peter May, In the east part of town. The board consisted of Drs. Kresler, Gwin and Loy, and several witnesses were examined and it was decided that the woman was insane and treatment at the asylum was recommended. ‘ Mrs. Sumway’s first Jmsband was Peter Pursley, who lived in Rensselaer at one time and who was killed by a runaway team Of horses about four years ago. She /Was married later to Shumway and to them a baby was born about a year ago. She continued to live with her husband until last fall, when the insanity beeame noticeable and she left him and came to Rensselaer Under the hallucination that her first husband had been murdered and that she was under hypnotic influence and was not legally married to Shumway. She has been growing worse during the past two or three weeks and at the examination it was related that she imagines that her 'husband and others have ordered her to kill her infant child and to curse and abuse her mother and other relatives. She is violent, hysterical, profane and destructive and requires constant watching. She talks of having been ordered to kill some one. She is 34 years of age. It is thought probable that she will be completely restored mentally by treatment at the asylum. 7"