Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1918 — WOLCOTT FIREBUG TAKEN TO INSANE HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

WOLCOTT FIREBUG TAKEN TO INSANE HOSPITAL

Frank Warner, Wolcott firebug, was taken to the Criminal Insane hospital at Michigan City Saturday by Sheriff J; W. Williams, where he will remain for treatment. Warner will be remembered as the man who caused considerable trouble at Wolcott on the 24th of last November, when he set fire to his barn and attempted to fire his house, and then shot nine men who were members of the volunteer - fire company who were trying to extinguish the fire. Warner had also threatened the lives of his wife and child. He was adjudged insane at an inquest held soon after the affair by Drs. M. T. Didlake and F. M. Reagan before Justice E. G. Smith, but although he was thought to be temporarily insane at the time of the affair, it is thought with a little treatment he will recover.