Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1915 — Rev. B F. Clifton in Bad Physical Condition. [ARTICLE]

Rev. B F. Clifton in Bad Physical Condition.

Rev. B. F. Clifton, recently accused of stealing an automobile and some equipment is very sick at the home of his father in Flora. When the sheriff from Crawfordsville went to take Clifton to jail he found him to be in a nervous collapse. ' He said that Clifton was not pretending but was really sick and unable to be taken to jail. Bond in the sum of SI,OOO was furnished by Clifton’s father. He is also under SSOO bond in Fountain county on a charge of petit larceny. The physician attending Clifton says that he is now slighly improved but that he is threatened by acute mania. The former minister does not recognize many of the people who enter his room. He had delusions Thursday and his mind is apparently wandering. He does not seem to realize the trouble he is in and does not mention it -,. 7 —_

Jn a ruling by the judge of Fountain county Clifton has been debarred fram practicing law in that county. -Should the preacher,* who now faces larceny charges in Fountain and Montgomery counties circuit courts, disprove these he may be allowed to practice law. Clifford’s father says that he thinks his son has not been in his right mind for the last three months. He believes that his son should be punished if he was in his right state of mind when he committed the. crimes of which he is accused.