Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — WAS SATANICALLY INSANE [ARTICLE]

WAS SATANICALLY INSANE

His Lunacy Seems to Have Led Him Always Into tbe Doing of Deviltry. Terre Haute, Ind., .Tnn. 18. —Dr. J. C. Casto, who was taken to the hospital for the Insar.e, has ended his unique career which for many years had kept the authorities conjecturing If he were insane or simply degenerate. About ten years ago he was conducting a drug store and In the adjoining business room a general store. By mere accident a watchman discovered fire in the drug store far into the night and put it out. Then were discovered trains of powder, charges of dynamite and ollaoaked blankets and other articles from the general store leading through the two store rooms and strung up on the shelves. In rooms persons were asleep. Casto was tried and the jury disagreed. Later he was Indicted for embezzlement and gave bond. He moved to Belleville, 111., where a few weeks ago he was caught trying to t burn his property. He was brought to Terre Haute and while out on bond gave such indications of Insanity that he was taken into custody.

New Republican Committee. Indianapolis, Jan. 18. Following are the names of the new state Republican committeemen: First district, Phelps Darby; Second, Joseph H. Barr; Third, Joseph P. Throop; Fourth, W. W. Lambert; Fifth. Daniel Chapin; Sixth, Owen L. Carr: Seventh, Oliver P. Ensley: Eighth, John H. Terhune; Ninth, George T. Dinwiddle; Tenth, Henry W. Marshall, Eleventh, Marion F. Evans; Twelfth, Clarence F. Bieknell; Thirteenth, John H. Moorman. Of the foregoing all but those from the Fourth. Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh are for Goodrich for chairman. The Fool Practical Joker. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Jan. 18.—Roy Meyers, 21 years old, employed in a livery barn, will lose an eye as the result of a practical joke. Unknown persons tilled his pipe with a mixture of powder and tobaccq, and when he lighted It there was an explosion, which ruined one eye and severely burned his face. In Memory of Mlm Gillespie. Rising Sun, Ind., Jan. 18. The Women’s Literary club has presented fifteen copies of the latest novels to the Mahlon Brown* public school library, in memory of the late Elizabeth Gllleapie, who was an active member of the club. She was murdered in December, 1908j_