Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — Mrs. Newt Kupke Taken To Asylum at Longcliff. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Newt Kupke Taken To Asylum at Longcliff.

Mrs. Newt Kupke, who tried to suicide by shooting herself through the chest with a 32-caliber revolver at Newland several weeks ago, was found insane by a board the past week and taken to the asylum a J Longcliff. Their four small children are being cared for by Mrs. Kupke’s parents, the Bowen family. Mr. Kupke accompanied Mrs. McColly and Deputy Sheriff John Robinson to Logansport and will try to procure employment so that he can be near his wife, whose physical condition is poor. Mrs. Kupke imagines she has tuberculosis but the most thorough examination of the physicians fail£ to disclose that she has any such ailment. Her mind has been failing for some time and when she tried to suicide she had a baby only ten days of age. The ball passed entirely through her body and it was believed would result fatally but she surprised the physicians by her prompt partial recovery. She is very frail, however, and probably the rest at the hospital will aid in restoring her to heatlh.