Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1913 — Farm Hand Adjudged Insane; Will Be Taken to Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Farm Hand Adjudged Insane; Will Be Taken to Asylum.

A telephone call for Sheriff Hoover Tuesday noon from over north of Remington told ol the insane conduct of a man named Sam Hall, and accompanied by Deputy Grant the sheriff went to the dome of Charles Hall, residing north and a little east of Remington. |L|r. and Mrs. Hall j;old of Sam’s conduct. He is an uncle of Charles and had been employed as a farm hand. Some two years ago he had served in the Illinois asylum at Kankakee and had been discharged as cured. Recently he has been having mental trouble and Monday he was very abusive to the horses he was using while husking corn. He would whip them and siwear at them and when Mrs. Hall remonstrated with him, he employed the language to her. He refused to eat anything and Tuesday noon struck off through the cornfield. Tfie sheriff and his deputy found him about 3y 2 miles from the place where, he. worked. He was hatness and seemed lost. The sheriff had no difficulty in catching him and bringing him to town and this Wednesday morning an insanity inquest was conducted by Justice Irwin, the physicians being Drs. Washburn, Hemphill and Johnson. Hall related that h| had suffered a sunstroke when a young man and realized that at times he is not quite right. He can neither read nor write and recently he procured some blank checks and scribbled on them and then took them to Remington and tried to get them cashed at the bank and at several stores. He was formerly married, apd his wife and children live in Illinois. He is 45 years of age. The board of physicians pronounced him of unsound mind and he will be kept here until admitted to the asylum at-Logansport.