Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — Mrs. Millard Fross Declared Insane and Placed in Jail. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Millard Fross Declared Insane and Placed in Jail.

Mrs. Millard Fross, of Hanging Grove township, has been suffering from mental trouble for some time past and occasionally is said to have taken a very dangerous turn and on the statement of neighbors an inquest was conducted by Squire Delos Dean and physicians Monday. It is said that Mrs. Fross resented the visit of the doctors and with a club gave some of them a lively chase. They found her of unsound mind and Tuesday afternoon Constables W. S. Parks and L. A. Harm Son, assisted by Harvey Moore, went after her. She barricaded herself in the house and used a case knife in an effort to beat off the officers after they had forced entrance to the house. Although she is a very small woman she put up a bitter fight and they were forced after overpowering her to place handcuffs on her in order to bring her into town. She came thinly clad and without shoes or Stockings on, but the officers protected her by wrapping a laprobe about her. She struggled all the way to town but after reaching- the jail became quiet. She has refused to eat, however. (Her husband is a good man and is not to be blamed at all for her condition nor for the fact that riie was taken into custody, for he had tried hard to pacify her and keep his home from being broken up. It is the second time she has been taken to the asylum and it is possible that treatment will restore her to better mental condition. There are two children, a son and daughter, aged 14 and 13 years, and they will remain with their father. Peter Hordeman returned this morning from Indianapolis where he went to get repairs for his thrashing machine. To make sure that the repairs arrived without delay he brought them with him. Pete reports a yield of 43 bushels of wheat to the acre on Charley Lakin’s 38 acres. A telegram came yesterday for C. E. Bennett, but no such person is known here and the message could not be delivered. If any one knows of such person they Should report to the Western Union office.